Children's Book Review With Fran Hawk || 2

Good Sunday Morning Friends!  Fran is back with a new book review.  I am laughing as I type this because Sterling is sitting with me looking at the book pictures saying, " Mom I want those two books, we don't have them, order them"!  So it looks like we will be adding these to our collection!

xoxo

My favorite book in first grade was �The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins� by Dr. Suess.  Now, almost 60 years later, I�m still reading  Dr. Suess stories that are new to me.   

 Dr. Charles D. Cohen has amassed the world�s  most comprehensive private collection of �Suessiana.� In the course of his research, he found a series of short works that Ted Geisel (aka Dr. Suess) had published in magazines in the 1950�s.  In 2011, Random House published seven of these stories in a best-selling  book called �The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories.�   

  Now in 2014, Random House has published another collection of Dr. Suess stories titled �Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories.�  These stories originally appeared in �Redbook.�  Beloved characters like Horton the Elephant and Marco appear, as well as familiar places like Mulberry Street. There�s even a grinch, although not the same grinch who tried to steal Christmas.�     

In �Horton and the Kwuggerbug,�Horton agrees to a very bad deal with a very devious bug. All�s well that ends well.    

 �Marco Comes Late� is the tale Marco tells his teacher when he�s late for school. As he hurried down Mulberry Street, a bird laid an egg on his arithmetic book.  What to do?!    

 � How Officer Pat Saved the Town� is an example of what Dr. Suess called �logical insanity.� Officer Pat relentlessly pursues a logical course to rectify a situation that didn�t make sense in the first place.    

In the case of these stories, what�s old is brand new.  As well as fun and delightful.

Fran Hawk