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Over fifty years ago, Dr. Seuss wrote seven stories that were published in magazines. They are collected in The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories as they were originally published, the only enhancement being the color palette used for the illustrations.
Notes and comments about each of the seven stories appear in the introduction by Charles D. Cohen (The Seuss, the Whole Seuss, and Nothing but the Seuss).
Written in rhyme, these amusing stories are six to twelve pages in length. They feature a seed that grows wishes, an overfed fish, and a stubborn stain.
A rabbit escapes from a bear that’s missing an eyelash in the story “The Rabbit, the Bear, and the Zinniga-Zanniga,” and a boy imagines growing up with five different jobs in the story “The Great Henry McBride.” A Gritch, a Grickle and an Ikka appear in the tale about a boy who learns he shouldn’t brag, and two brothers discover it can be fun to be twins in the story “Tadd and Todd.”
Children will be entertained by the silly things these characters do to solve their problems, but they will also learn the consequences of being greedy and disobedient; the benefits of thinking quickly, and dreaming big. The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories is filled with all the fun that fans have come to associate with Dr. Seuss.
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The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories