shawna337's review against another edition

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adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

erin_oriordan_is_reading_again's review against another edition

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5.0

These are delightful. I just wish they were longer.

cogsofencouragement's review against another edition

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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.

ash_among_the_stars's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

libraryrobin's review against another edition

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3.0

Liked the introduction almost as much as the stories.

beckyisbookish's review against another edition

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3.0

Maybe these stories were lost for a reason

pelachick's review against another edition

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5.0

Is there anything better when you are snowed in than to read a new Dr Seuss book?

calistareads's review against another edition

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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.

birdmanseven's review against another edition

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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

bogormen1983's review against another edition

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3.0

Definitely not one of my favourites of his. It was OK. My favorite part was the story about why Marco was late for school.