the cat in the hat

Challenged by Houghton Mifflin to write a story “first-graders can’t put down” (employing a vocabulary limited to 225 words chosen from a list of 348), Theodor Seuss Geisel reportedly spent nine months crafting The Cat in the Hat, a masterpiece about a mischievous feline who brightens a rainy day for two latchkey kids. Although she’s […]