A Hatful of Seuss: Five Favorite Dr. Seuss Stories: Horton Hears A Who! / If I Ran the Zoo / Sneetches / Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book / Bartholomew and the Oobleck

Come join us for the celebration of the Cat's fortieth birthday. Following the stunning success of Six by Seuss, which has sold over 734,000 copies, is the delightful debut of A Hatful of Seuss--304 pages of wonderfully nonsensical vintage material. This elegant bind-up copy consists of complete versions of: Bartholomew and the Oobleck, If I Ran the Zoo, Horton Hears a Who, The Sneetches and Other Stories, and Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book. An exceptional gift to give and receive, A Hatful of Seuss is being offered as a full selection by The Book-of-the-Month Club (adult) for Christmas 1996.

Dr. Seuss was born Theodor Geisel in Springfield, Massachusetts on March 2, 1904.??After attending Dartmouth College and Oxford University, he began a career in advertising.??His advertising cartoons, featuring Quick, Henry, the Flit!,??appeared in several leading American magazines.??Dr. Seuss's first children's book, And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, hit the market in 1937, and the world of children's literature was changed forever!??In 1957, Seuss's The Cat in the Hat became the prototype for one of Random House's best- selling series, Beginner Books.??This popular series combined engaging stories with outrageous illustrations and playful sounds to teach basic reading skills.??Brilliant, playful, and always respectful of children, Dr. Seuss ch