One Seuss, Two Seuss, Red Seuss, New Seuss: A Gallery from the Doctor’s Latest Book
Calling all Lorax fans: ‘Horton and the Kwuggerbug,’ a new collection of little-known Dr. Seuss stories, goes on sale Tuesday, featuring Seuss-land favorites like Horton and the Grinch.
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Calling all Lorax fans: a new collection of little-known Dr. Seuss stories hits bookstores on Tuesday. Though Seuss—real name Theodor Geisel—died in 1991, his more obscure works are still trickling out in various “lost stories” collections, with Horton and the Kwuggerbug—published by Random House Children’s Books—the latest on offer. Originally published in Redbook magazine in the 1950s, when Seuss wrote a piece a month for the publication, the Kwuggerbug fables feature Seuss-land favorites like the curious elephant Horton and a very sly Grinch. And, naturally, some unforgettable anapestic tetrameter: “He climbed. He grew dizzy. His ankles grew numb. / But he climbed and he climbed and he clum and he clum.”
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An illustraton from the new Seuss collection.
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An illustration from “Marco Comes Late,” featuring Marco, the boy from Seuss’s first children’s book, And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street (1937), and the Kwuggerbug.
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An image from “How Officer Pat Saved the Whole Town.”
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An illustration from “Marco Comes Late,” featuring Marco, the boy from Seuss’s first children’s book, And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street (1937).
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In the title story, the elephant Horton from Horton Hears a Who! is tricked into helping a tiny Kwuggerbug, who promises him: “I know of a Beezlenut tree where some Beezlenuts grow.”
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