INFANTIL

Érase una vez un pequeño oso y un pequeño tigre que vivían allá abajo, a la orilla del río. Justo donde se ve subir el humo, junto al árbol grande. Y además, tenían una barca... La vida de pequeño oso y pequeño tigre experimenta un vuelco cuando, flotando en el río, aparece una caja que viene de Panamá y que huele a plátano. Desde entonces, Panamá se convierte en el país de sus sueños y por eso deciden iniciar un largo viaje para llegar allí. Con una olla roja, una caña de pescar y un patito-tigre de juguete, emprenden un camino en el que conocerán a un ratón de campo, un viejo zorro, una vaca, una corneja, una liebre y un erizo.

As topical today as when it was first published in 1938, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins is the story of a young boy (the same one featured in the Caldecott Honor Award-winner Bartholomew and the Oobleck) and his unjust treatment at the hands of a king. Written in unrhymed prose, The 500 Hats is one of Dr. Seuss’s earliest works, and while it may not be as well-known as his other stories, the book addresses subjects that we know the good doctor was passionate about throughout his life: the abuse of power (as in Yertle the Turtle and Horton Hears a Who); rivalry (as in The Sneetches); and of course, zany good humor (as in The Cat in the Hat and all the other books he wrote and illustrated)!

It's the literary equivalent of buried treasure! Seuss scholar/collector Charles D. Cohen has hunted down seven rarely seen stories by Dr. Seuss. Originally published in magazines between 1948 and 1959, they include "The Bear, the Rabbit, and the Zinniga-Zanniga " (about a rabbit who is saved from a bear with a single eyelash!); "Gustav the Goldfish" (an early, rhymed version of the Beginner Book A Fish Out of Water); "Tadd and Todd" (a tale passed down via photocopy to generations of twins); "Steak for Supper" (about fantastic creatures who follow a boy home in anticipation of a steak dinner); "The Bippolo Seed" (in which a scheming feline leads an innocent duck to make a bad decision); "The Strange Shirt Spot" (the inspiration for the bathtub-ring scene in The Cat in the Hat Comes Back); and "The Great Henry McBride" (about a boy whose far-flung career fantasies are only bested by those of the real Dr. Seuss himself).