New Dr. Seuss Book Debuts At No. 1


The new book by Dr. Seuss has debuted at No. 1 on Amazon, and sold out on its first day. Amazon is now reporting that What Pet Should I Get? has sold out, and they cannot say when the book will be back in stock.

The Inquisitr has reported that the book was celebrated last night at Barnes & Noble with a reading to launch their national campaign.

Author Theodor Seuss Geisel, known as Dr. Seuss, who died in 1991, has the book What Pet Should I Get? back on the bestseller’s list for the first time in years. His widow, Audrey Geisel, found the manuscript in their home, but put it aside. It was rediscovered in 2013, and published yesterday.

The new Dr. Seuss book features the same siblings featured in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. The following is in the opinion of Seuss biographer Donald Pease.

“It’s a classic Dr. Seuss treatment,” he said. “What it does is it brings a child, actually a brother and sister, into relationship by way of a problem almost every child addresses in her or his life: What pet should I get?”

Pease suggests that Seuss didn’t publish the manuscript, but used it as a launching point for One Fish Two Fish.

“In a sense, the pet shop is giving the children access to the difference between the world of pets they can encounter in a pet shop, and the world of creatures they can only enter encounter by opening the book equivalent of a pet shop: the archive of Dr. Seuss’s children’s books,” he said.

Claudia Prescott, who worked as a personal assistant to the Geisels through the years, said that Dr. Seuss often created works as notes in order to create other works.

“We’d call it his bone pile,” she said about his unfinished work. “He’d go back and take something out of the bone pile, and you’d be surprised where it would end up.”

Prescott says there are more sketches, and ideas for books out there.

“There’s pieces of treasure, but I don’t think there’s anything else,” she said about what’s left in the “bone pile.”

As Time Magazine said in a Seuss-like rhyme, “Parents don’t fret, kids will surely love Pet!

Are you going to buy the new Dr. Seuss book?

[Photo courtesy of Getty Images / Barnes & Noble]

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