McElligot's Pool. First Edition. Banned.

Dr. Seuss

ISBN 10: 0001955233 / ISBN 13: 9780001955233

Published by Collins, 1975

About this Item

McElligot's Pool By Dr. Seuss. Publisher: Collins, London, 1975. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE. First printing of the British edition of this now banned Dr. Seuss book. Hardback with papered boards. Covers are rubbed, marked, chipped and bumped with paper strip missing from spine. Binding firm. No inscriptions. Some foxing to pages. Two pages have been scribbled on in ink. Price sticker to back cover £1.95. Banned due to the racist imagery it contains (more specifically, an "Eskimo" fish). Seller Inventory # ABE-1695163274746

Bibliographic Details

Title: McElligot's Pool. First Edition. Banned.

Publisher: Collins

Publication Date: 1975

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Imagination runs wild in this Caldecott Honor-winning tale featuring Dr. Seuss's inimitable voice and hysterical illustrations. The first Seuss title to feature full-color art on every other page, this adventurous picture book tells of Marco-who first imagined an extraordinary parade in And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street-as he daydreams of all the possibilities that await him while he fishes in McElligot's Pool. Optimistic and exciting, this tale is the perfect bait, and readers young and old will be hooked on this fish-tastic favorite.

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