McElligot's Pool - Softcover

Dr. Seuss

Softcover

ISBN 10: 000734094X ISBN 13: 9780007340941

Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren's Books, 2010

Synopsis

This entertaining tale tells of a puddle full of promise, where Marco's beautiful, imaginary fish come to life. Who knows what fantastic creatures might swim in McElligot's Pool! By combining the funniest stories, craziest creatures and zaniest pictures with his unique blend of rhyme, rhythm and repetition, Dr. Seuss helps children of all ages and abilities learn to read. This is a yellow-back book. Ideal for fluent readers, and great fun for practising reading aloud. They also make wonderful bedtime stories for younger children.

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Review:

McElligot's Pool is a Seuss classic from the distant era before even The Cat In The Hat. It's a single poetic variation on the theme of adult skepticism that's no match for childhood faith and daydreaming. A small boy is fishing in the tiny, unpromising McElligot's Pool, a puddle that (as a passing farmer informs our diminutive hero) is nothing but a hole where people dispose of their junk. But the boy is all optimism: what if the pool is deeper than anyone thinks? What if it connects to an underground stream that flows under the town to the sea? Might not all sorts of fish then swim up the stream and be caught here? "I might catch an eel... (Well, I might. It depends.) A long twisting eel with a lot of strange bends. And, oddly enough, with a head at both ends!" The moral of the story is straightforward: "If I wait long enough, if I'm patient and cool,/ Who knows what I'll catch in McElligot's pool?" (Ages 4 to 8) --Richard Farr

From the Back Cover:

"Rare and wonderful imaginings are told in the author-artist's inimitable rhyme and are shown in hilariously funny pictures."--Booklist.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren's Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 000734094X
• ISBN 13: 9780007340941
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64