Shelf Awareness
Less than three weeks after news that a long-lost manuscript by Harper Lee will be published July 14, Random House Children's Books has announced that it will publish a long-lost manuscript by Dr. Seuss on July 28.
Called What Pet Should I Get?, the book was initially found in Theodor Geisel's home shortly after his death in 1991, then "rediscovered" in 2013 by his widow, Audrey Geisel, and longtime secretary and friend Claudia Prescott."It's up to the level of what one expects from a Dr. Seuss book: the humor, the wonderful illustrations, the rhyming, the imagination, all the things that are so Seussian," said Barbara Marcus, president and publisher of Random House Children's Books.
What Pet Should I Get? features the brother and sister who starred in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. The book is supposed to have been written between 1958 and 1962.
"While undeniably special, it is not surprising to me that we found this because Ted always worked on multiple projects and started new things all the time--he was constantly writing and drawing and coming up with ideas for new stories," Audrey Geisel said. "It is especially heartwarming for me as this year also marks twenty-five years since the publication of the last book of Ted's career, Oh, the Places You'll Go!"
Last September, Random House published Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories. The publisher said it will publish two other Seuss titles in the future.
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