Seuss, but it reads well, and it tells an engaging story. The text hasn't quite got that rollicking rhyme I associate with Dr. Despite this marvelous feat of fantasy, when Marco returns home again and faces his father, he reverts to "reality," reporting only upon the horse and cart.Īlthough I would not describe it as the equal of some of Seuss's later hits, like The Lorax or How the Grinch Stole Christmas (not to mention my own personal favorite, I Had Trouble Getting to Solla Sollew), And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street is an astoundingly good picture-book, especially when one considers that it was its creator's debut in the form. This extraordinary equipage dashes past a parade stand featuring the mayor, and is feted by a confetti-dumping airplane. His game of make-believe grows ever wilder, as he imagines all sorts of extraordinary embellishments, until he finally ends up with a massive brass band being pulled by a rajah-bearing elephant and two (seeming) giraffes, followed along by an old man in his trailer house, and accompanied by a police escort. Concluding that this makes for a very poor story indeed, Marco begins to embroider upon what he sees, imagining a zebra pulling the cart instead of a horse, and then pretending that it is a chariot being drawn, rather than a cart. Instructed by his father to keep his eyes open, but also rebuked for telling fanciful tales of what he has seen, Marco at first registers "reality," in the form of a fairly tame horse and wagon ambling down the street. Seuss's picture-books, and follows young Marco as he walks down a Mulberry Street both real and imagined. Originally published in 1937, this was the first of Dr. Seuss's classic picture-books instead, reading and reviewing them chronologically, by publication date? That is what I have elected to do, and appropriately enough, given that it is one of the infamous six, I started with And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. My initial thought had been to simply read and review the six books singled out for suppression - And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, McElligot's Pool, If I Ran the Zoo, Scrambled Eggs Super!, On Beyond Zebra! and The Cat's Quizzer - but then I thought: why not do a retrospective of all forty-four of Dr.
Seuss picture-books that are now thought to contain outdated and offensive elements, I have been considering undertaking a Seuss retrospective as an act of personal protest against what I hold to be an absurd and ill-judged action. Seuss Enterprises to cease publication on six Dr.
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