Assembled by Charles D. Cohen
Random House, 2011
$15, ages 6 and up, 72 pages
"Think left and think right and think low and think high!" Oh the thinks, Charles D. Cohen thought up, because he searched and he tried!
Cohen, the world's foremost Seuss scholar and collector, used his noggin just right when he followed a hunch that there was more to Seuss than many of us had read.
He burrowed into library collections and hunted the Internet to recover seven magazine stories written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss between 1948 and 1959 -- a challenge given that magazines then, as now, were routinely tossed out when the next month's issue arrived.
This amazing selection, culled from Redbook magazine, includes a few stories that may be familiar, like "The Bear, the Rabbit and the Zinniga-Zanniga," recorded by Marvin Miller in a Dr. Seuss Presents album.
In that story, a rabbit outwits a bear with a single eyelash.
But many of the stories will be delightfully, novelly new.
