Dr. Seuss fans can rejoice, because a new book hit store shelves Tuesday. This video was licensed from Grab Networks. It is Dr. Seuss’ first title in over 25 years and it promises to delight kids with cats, dogs and very Seussical made-up creatures like the one that sleeps under a tent, the Yent.
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“It’s a classic Dr. Seuss treatment”, he said.
NBC crews for “The Today Show” film children during a reading of ‘What Pet Should I Get?’ at UC San Diego’s Geisel Library July 23. They ponder what kind of animal to acquire, but the end leaves readers guessing.
Harper Lee isn’t the only one with a long-lost book being published these days.
Three other books have been published since Geisel died, but this is only the second where all the work was done by Geisel – except colouring the characters, which was done by Goldsmith.
“What Pet Should I Get?” was unearthed in 2013 by Dr. Seuss’ widow, Audrey, while she was going through his papers. “At Dartmouth I couldn’t even get them engaged”. When Seuss was a senior, he and his friends were caught drinking alcohol in his room during Prohibition.
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“It’s the only (book) we found that was complete – some of the verses had slipped off the story boards because the scotch tape was so old it turned brown, so the Random House people went through and spent a lot of time getting them in the right order”. The following is in the opinion of Seuss biographer Donald Pease.
