McElligot's Pool (Classic Seuss)
 

McElligot's Pool

by Dr. Seuss

McElligot's Pool is a Seuss classic from the distant era before even The Cat In The Hat. It's a single poetic variation on the theme of adult skepticism that's no match for childhood faith and daydreaming. A small boy is fishing in the tiny, unpromising McElligot's Pool, a puddle that (as a passing farmer informs our diminutive hero) is nothing but a hole where people dispose of their... (read more)

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McElligot’s Pool, a Caldecot Honor book, was written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss which is a pseudonym for Theodor Seuss Geisel. Dr. Seuss is the standard to judge all children’s literature by. He is the best of the best. He has a winning formula in which the books rhyme, they have the same kind of meter, he took an earthy common thing such as fishing in a little pool and he applied wit and imagination to create an alternate universe and an imaginary world of possibilities with imaginary...

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    fatherofhollywood said:

    What can one say about Dr, Seuss books that hasn't already been said? It's doubtful there is anyone anywhere in the US that hasn't heard of Dr. Seuss or his most famous of books.

    posted Sunday, November 4 2007
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