The Cat in the Hat Comes Back by Dr. Seuss

“We would joke among ourselves about what would happen if the rocket crashed, or disappeared. “The reaction at Random House was deep grief over Ted’s death, and tremendous relief that the project was off the boards,” Ms.

The Cat has that kind of childlike exuberance and childlike nature.” He would jump in the air, sit on a lap, chase someone. “What I meant by that is, I always found that Harpo had a kind of unpredictable madness to him. Short said with a laugh in a telephone interview. Short said he saw Harpo Marx in the Cat, a curious choice given that Marx never spoke and the Cat never stops speaking. In a video shown to the Television Critics Association this month Mr. Martin Short is the voice of the Cat, who leads his young playmates on fanciful adventures in the natural science world, exploring how bees make honey, why birds migrate and how being slow helps a sloth. On Labor Day PBS introduces “The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!,” a daily half-hour program based on Random House’s Learning Library series. More than half a century later his floppy-hatted hero is being recruited again to help promote childhood learning: this time, though, it’s keeping kids excited about science. Seuss, created “The Cat in the Hat” in response to concerns that American children were lagging in literacy. Could it be the culprit? Considering that Kate’s other theory was “cat dander mixed with gum” I’m going with the frosting idea.BACK in the 1950s Theodor Geisel, a k a Dr. One theory of where the pink ring in the bathtub comes from involves the pink frosting on this cat’s cake. Please see the video at the bottom of this post for some additional information and clarification about the Cat and his history. While we might point out some of the sillinesses in the art, there is no denying that the Cat’s long legacy of minstrel-styled choices is a serious topic worth discussing. However, the whole point of selecting a “Cat in the Hat” book at all for our 200th episode was to do a problematic book. Out of context, these images might look like tacit approbation of Seuss’s work. Listen to the whole show here on Soundcloud or download it through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play, PlayerFM, or your preferred method of podcast selection.īefore we begin, I’d like to note that some folks are coming to this post without listening to the episode.

The Cat in the Hat Comes Back by Dr. Seuss