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A review by calistareads
Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories by Dr. Seuss
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.