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kathydavie's review
5.0
Four short stories that are a follow-up to The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories with some good lessons for children (and parents!) to absorb as they laugh.
Series
"Horton and the Kwuggerbug" (Horton, 2)
"Marco Comes Late" (Marco; Mulberry Street)
"How Officer Pat Saved the Whole Town (Officer Pat; Mulberry Street)
"The Hoobub and the Grinch" (The Grinch, 2)
It's Marco and Officer Pat who spent so much time on Mulberry Street. Enough to spawn movies, radio shows, and music scores.
The Stories
"Horton and the Kwuggerbug" incorporates Seuss' story-like rhyming, which makes this a fun read even if Horton is too naive but with great honor as he honors it when "a deal's a deal". The things that nasty, cheating kwuggerbug puts Horton through!?!
There are several great examples for parents to talk about with their kids: when a deal isn't a deal if someone manipulates you into it; "friends" who push you into doing what is unsafe or wrong; and, how to ensure that deal is quite clear! The cheating little kwuggerbug!!!
The end of "Marco Comes Late" found me ROFLMAO. It's a good excuse when the very imaginative Marco finds himself in a complex situation where he's held up by everyone else's opinions and needs to explain himself to Miss Block.
"How Officer Pat Saved the Whole Town" follows a sequence of events Officer Pat dreams up. Once those events get rolling, well, lordy, lordy, the town will be a mess with too many of the citizens of Mulberry Street in the hospital! So it's the imaginative Officer Pat to the rescue, lol.
"The Hoobub and the Grinch" is a two-page short story of a Grinch with a sales pitch that will remind parents too well of pushy car salesmen!
The Cover and Title
The cover has a bright blue sky with Horton the Elephant snuggled into the deep grasses and bushes of the jungle, as he listens to a tiny yellow Kwuggerbug tell his tale.
The title begins with the first story and hints at the rest: Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories.
Series
"Horton and the Kwuggerbug" (Horton, 2)
"Marco Comes Late" (Marco; Mulberry Street)
"How Officer Pat Saved the Whole Town (Officer Pat; Mulberry Street)
"The Hoobub and the Grinch" (The Grinch, 2)
It's Marco and Officer Pat who spent so much time on Mulberry Street. Enough to spawn movies, radio shows, and music scores.
The Stories
"Horton and the Kwuggerbug" incorporates Seuss' story-like rhyming, which makes this a fun read even if Horton is too naive but with great honor as he honors it when "a deal's a deal". The things that nasty, cheating kwuggerbug puts Horton through!?!
There are several great examples for parents to talk about with their kids: when a deal isn't a deal if someone manipulates you into it; "friends" who push you into doing what is unsafe or wrong; and, how to ensure that deal is quite clear! The cheating little kwuggerbug!!!
The end of "Marco Comes Late" found me ROFLMAO. It's a good excuse when the very imaginative Marco finds himself in a complex situation where he's held up by everyone else's opinions and needs to explain himself to Miss Block.
"How Officer Pat Saved the Whole Town" follows a sequence of events Officer Pat dreams up. Once those events get rolling, well, lordy, lordy, the town will be a mess with too many of the citizens of Mulberry Street in the hospital! So it's the imaginative Officer Pat to the rescue, lol.
"The Hoobub and the Grinch" is a two-page short story of a Grinch with a sales pitch that will remind parents too well of pushy car salesmen!
The Cover and Title
The cover has a bright blue sky with Horton the Elephant snuggled into the deep grasses and bushes of the jungle, as he listens to a tiny yellow Kwuggerbug tell his tale.
The title begins with the first story and hints at the rest: Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories.
cogsofencouragement's review
5.0
Happily stumbled upon this at the public library not knowing it existed. "Marco Comes Late" has a great punch-line to end it, but "How Officer Pat Saved the Whole Town" is my favorite from this collection.
pelachick's review
5.0
Is there anything better when you are snowed in than to read a new Dr Seuss book?
calistareads's review
4.0
This is a collection of 4 stories published in Redbook - a magazine in the 50s that were pretty much forgotten. He did edit some of them before his death. All the stories and artwork is his. They found the old magazines and lifted the stories to publish. He even had a deal to publish 'How Officer Pat Saved the Whole Town' as a book and it just got bumped by the popularity of 'The Cat in the Hat'.
We get to see Horton ride again with a sneaky bug. There are 2 stories on Mulberry Street once again, one with Marco who is late to school and the other is about Officer Pat, which is probably the best story of the bunch here, although I really enjoyed the Horton story too. The last story is about a Grinch, not THE grinch from Christmas, but another one and he makes a good advertiser as he says useless things to people. It was the most unfinished and least enjoyable.
I thought the Horton story was great, but it needed one more panel, I felt, to let us know how things wrapped up.
These are new stories by a master. The kids enjoyed all but the last one about a Grinch. They did well with this collection and I'm quite glad we have something new of his.
We get to see Horton ride again with a sneaky bug. There are 2 stories on Mulberry Street once again, one with Marco who is late to school and the other is about Officer Pat, which is probably the best story of the bunch here, although I really enjoyed the Horton story too. The last story is about a Grinch, not THE grinch from Christmas, but another one and he makes a good advertiser as he says useless things to people. It was the most unfinished and least enjoyable.
I thought the Horton story was great, but it needed one more panel, I felt, to let us know how things wrapped up.
These are new stories by a master. The kids enjoyed all but the last one about a Grinch. They did well with this collection and I'm quite glad we have something new of his.
birdmanseven's review
4.0
Overall this was a pretty strong collection. There were more illustrations than in the Bippolo book and it was nice to see the return of some familiar characters.
We talk more Seuss here: https://soundcloud.com/allthebooks/episode-29-take-a-look-with-all-the-books
We talk more Seuss here: https://soundcloud.com/allthebooks/episode-29-take-a-look-with-all-the-books