Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories

PreS-Gr 3—Revisit some old friends and make a few new ones with this wonderful book of lost Seuss stories, previously published in Redbook magazine during the 1950s. These four gems are further evidence of the timelessness of Dr. Seuss. In "Horton and the Kwuggerbug," Horton (almost) gets bamboozled by a clever, conniving Kwuggerbug. In "Marco Comes Late," Marco's tall tale is an imaginative masterpiece, but it fails to fool his teacher, Miss Block. The very keen and alert Officer Pat's forward-chaining logic—starting with a gnat and a cat—saves the town from utmost certainty of being blown to smithereens in "How Officer Pat Saved the Whole Town." In "The Hoobub and the Grinch" the world is full of Grinches trying to sell Hoobubs swamp land, bridges, or in this case, green string. Chris Cox's rhythmical narration is perfect. Included is a brief commentary on Dr. Seuss' writing career by Seuss scholar Charles D. Cohen.