books "What Pet Should I Get?", by Dr. Seuss

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Dr. Seuss was a master of his craft and really worked hard to deliver quality storytelling to young kids, who would read to their kids the same books when they become parents. His legacy is generational and has apparently become more popular long after his death in 1991. (Of the 650 million books published, 450 million were after his passing.) Once, he admitted to writing a thousand pages in order to narrow down to 64 because he takes his quality control seriously.

 

In 2013, his widow, Audrey Giessel, decided to renovate their California house. She and a longtime friend found a forgotten box with what was a completed manuscript of an old story that he didn't publish. It's assuming that he wrote and illustrated it sometime between 1958 and 1962, but it was reused for One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. Audrey and Cathy Goldsmith (an art director from Random House and one of the last from that company who worked with him personally) helped put the pieces together and create a new book.

 

On July 28, twenty-four years after his death, Random House posthumously published "What Pet Should I Get?" Upon release, it was the #1 seller at Amazon.

 

I haven't read it and only heard about it not long ago. But as a huge Dr. Seuss fan, I'm excited to read it, hopefully soon.

 

If you read it, what are your thoughts on the book? If you haven't, or if this is your first time hearing the news, what are your thoughts on the news?

[Daring_Do 552]

That's really neat. I used to read his stuff when I was little. It reminds me of how there was (I think) some Dr. Seuss story that was an unfinished manuscript that someone else finished off. Any idea what I might be talking about?

[A Black Circle 1,586]

I must buy more books!!!

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