What Pet Should I Get?

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The #1 "New York Times" bestseller is now available in the Beginner Book format! When the brother and sister from "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish" visit a pet store to pick a pet, naturally, they can't pick just one. How will they decide? Full color.

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ISBN-13:	9780525707356
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	01/08/2019
Series:	Beginner Books
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.30(d)
Lexile:	AD350L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Dr. Seuss, also known as Theodor Seuss Geisel, is one of the most beloved children’s book authors of all time. From The Cat in the Hat to Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, his iconic characters, stories, and art style have had a lasting influence on generations of children and adults. The books he wrote and illustrated under the name Dr. Seuss (along with others he wrote but did not illustrate, under the pseudonyms Theo. LeSieg and Rosetta Stone) have been published in fifty languages. Hundreds of millions of copies have found their way into homes and hearts around the world. Dr. Seuss’s long list of awards includes Caldecott Honors, the Pulitzer Prize, and eight honorary doctorates. Works based on his original stories have won three Oscars, three Emmys, three Grammys, and a Peabody.

Date of Birth:

March 2, 1904

Date of Death:

September 4, 1991

Place of Birth:

Springfield, Massachusetts

Place of Death:

La Jolla, California

Education:

B.A., Dartmouth College, 1925; Oxford University (no degree)

From the B&N Reads Blog

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A Dr. Seuss Book for Every Stage of Life

Is there any wrong age for enjoying Dr. Seuss? We sure don’t think so. His humor and musicality captivates babies. His gentle encouragement to reach for the stars is just what graduates need. And his book for seniors (“obsolete children,” in Seuss-ese) tackles old age with wry wisdom. Seuss’s recently discovered manuscript, What Pet Should I Get?, is out […]

July 28 at 7pm: What Pet Should We Get?

What pet should we get? In celebration of the newly discovered Dr. Seuss book What Pet Should I Get?, kids of all ages are invited to help us decide what pet we should get at a special Storytime event on July 28 at 7pm.

A New Dr. Seuss Book, What Pet Should I Get? Is Now Available for Pre-Order

We Debate the Question in Dr. Seuss’s What Pet Should I Get?

The magic of Dr. Seuss is wondrous, indescribable, and universal. After all, it’s a rare child in this world who couldn’t identify The Cat in the Hat, or recall the words of The Lorax. As such, everyone has a favorite aspect of the Seussian canon. For me, the best part of Theodore Geisel’s genius is his creatures, from […]

…a very good example of [Seuss's] particular genius for distilling both the spirit of his times and the timeless mind-set of children. With its galloping anapests, cockamamie creatures and kids off on an everyday adventure that turns hallucinogenic, this late arrival will slip easily into the collection that changed how Americans learn to read—Dr. Seuss books like Green Eggs and Ham, which mowed down the teacher-approved, intellectually inert Dick-and-Jane drivel that sucked the life out of early education in the 1950s…What Pet Should I Get? will remind us, delightfully, that Dr. Seuss, over half a century ago, made learning to read an adventure, a club children would actually want to belong to. And, not least, he made reading aloud something parents, too, could reliably enjoy.

The New York Times Book Review - Maria Russo

Filled with creatures both real and zany,
It shows off his gift for creating a zoo.
Two-legged, four-legged, winged and finned,
Beasties familiar and entirely new!

The New York Times - Michiko Kakutani

2015-07-22
Almost 25 years after the death of the great Dr. Seuss, a new book hits the market. "We want a pet. / We want a pet. / What kind of pet / should we get?" So begins the narrator and his sister's visit to a pet store, where they find themselves torn among a bevy of cute, furry creatures including cats, dogs, rabbits, and fish, as well as some "new things." As presented in the lengthy publisher's note that follows the story, this newly unearthed picture book likely dates to the late 1950s or early '60s and has been reconstructed from finished art and multiple iterations of draft revisions. The result is a far more satisfying experience than such other posthumous Seuss publications as Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories (2014) and The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories (2011), which paired more or less finished stories with a few pieces of art. This new-old book presents a complete storyline with a pleasing balance of text and art featuring, on average, one quatrain per page. Unfortunately, it still has a fairly unfinished feel. It's hard to imagine that the notoriously finicky—admirably so—author would have been entirely happy with the occasionally lackluster and stumbling verse. Moreover, while the illustrations demonstrate an intensifying looniness, progressing from cats and dogs to Seuss' trademark, unidentifiable rubber-limbed, mop-topped creatures, the text does not keep pace. The "yent" or the "fast kind of thing / who would fly round my head / in a ring on a string" the brother considers feel like first steps toward zaniness rather than a finished artistic vision. The concluding note likewise suffers from a lack of unity, offering an earnest exhortation to eschew pet shops for shelter adoption, a survey of the dogs in Theodor Geisel's life, and the process art director Cathy Goldsmith followed in turning the newfound manuscript into a book. Of more lasting interest to scholars than children, this genial pet-shop visit provides a tantalizing glimpse into a master's artistic process. (Picture book. 3 & up)

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