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“There’s a lot at stake here, for us and for him, and I really didn’t want to get this wrong”, Goldsmith told the New York Times. The discovery, one review noted, was the literary equivalent of finding buried treasure. The new book, as the title suggests, is about a brother and sister in search of a companion at the pet store.
The free public event in Buster’s, part of the WMU Bookstores Shops, is sponsored by the WMU Reading Clinic and the University’s on-campus childcare center, The Children’s Place Learning Center. The materials of Seuss’s that were found are set to be kept at UC San Diego, which houses the Dr. Seuss Collection at the Geisel Library.
Calls to Random House and Dr. Seuss Enterprises today for additional information were not immediately returned. The pages were stained and yellowed, according to a statement, but the story was all there, and without a doubt, the work of Dr. Seuss.
The announcement of a new, original Dr. Seuss book sent a wave of nostalgic giddiness across social media, and the number of preorders for “What Pet Should I Get?” has been climbing for months. The box contained 16 black-and-white illustrations with typed text taped to the drawings.
He hadn’t shaded in the sketches with colored pencils, as he normally did when finishing an illustration.
The Business Journal is the premier business publication in San Diego. Some images had five different possible rhyme schemes.
Geisel wrote and illustrated 44 children’s books in his lifetime, including classics like The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham, which helped generations of children learn to read. “It was truly a magical moment, and we immediately knew this was more than just a box of sketches”.
A new Dr. Seuss book is on the way, and how they found it is a surprise, I say.