I pulled from our shelves the Seussiana that we own, which is now no longer in publication. Needless to add, it's going into my safe deposit box. When I purchased its reissue (ISBN 3-4) at twenty bucks, which at the time I reckoned a high price for childhood nostalgia, I would never have dreamt that it fetches forty times that price a this writing and will doubtless continue to climb. The trustees of Theodore Geisel's estate and owners of all his books' copyrights have done so.). (To clarify: Amazon hasn't pulled it from publication. UPDATE (03.06.21): When I wrote this review some years ago I had no idea that the book would be proscribed. The whimsy factor of "Zoo," however, is kicked up several notches beyond the "Pool." The vocabulary level is that of the better known "Horton Hears a Who!," two books down the road. If "McElligot" boasted some lavish watercolors, "Zoo" stays with Seuss's trademark pen and ink, with occasional fill-in colors. A young tyke, Gerald McGrew, is unimpressed by everyday lions and tigers, so he dreams up his own menagerie, which gets wilder and more ambitious by the page. Like "McElligot's Pool,""If I Ran the Zoo" is a non-narrative paean to unbridled childhood imagination.
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