The Cat That Changed The World
"And then something went BUMP!
How that bump made us jump!
We looked!
Then we saw him step in on the mat!
We looked!
And we saw him!
The Cat in the Hat!"
~ The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss, 1957
Medium: Mixed-Media Pigment Print on Archival Somerset Paper, estate signed
Edition: CP (Collaborators Proof)
Year: 2014
Size: 100.65cm (H) x 73.35cm (L)
Arty-Fact: Adapted posthumously from the circa 1957 original preproduction drawing for the 1957 book, The Cat in the Hat.
When The Cat in the Hat first stepped into our lives and onto the world stage in 1957, Ellen Goodman of The Detroit Free Press wrote that it was “a little volume of absurdity that worked like a karate chop on the weary little world of Dick, Jane and Spot.”
Perhaps the defining book of Theodor Seuss Geisel's colossal career, The Cat in the Hat came into being when Houghton Mifflin asked him to write and illustrate a child’s primer using only 225 "new-reader" vocabulary words. Ted's success at being able to fulfill this mandate not only changed the way generations of children would learn to read, but also freed future writers from the bonds of literary conventions.
Source: The Art of Dr. Seuss
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