![]() ![]() From a literary point of view, the book is a feat of skill, since it simultaneously maintains a strict triple meter, keeps to a tiny vocabulary, and tells an entertaining tale. Seuss wrote the book because he felt that there should be more entertaining and fun material for beginning readers. ![]() Seuss publications and animated films produced after Cat in the Hat. ![]() The book has been popular since its publication, and a logo featuring the Cat adorns all Dr. He cleans up the house on his way out, disappearing seconds before the mother arrives. ![]() The children (Sally and her older brother, who is the narrator) ultimately prove exemplary latchkey children, capturing the Things and bringing the Cat under control. The Cat's antics are vainly opposed by the family pet, who is a sentient and articulate goldfish. Bringing with him Thing One and Thing Two, the Cat performs all sorts of wacky tricks to amuse the children, with mixed results. In the first book in the series ( The Cat in the Hat, 1957), the Cat brings a cheerful and exuberant form of chaos to the household of two young children one rainy day while their mother is out. He appears in five of Seuss's rhymed children's books: The Cat in the Hat is a fictional cat created by Dr. ![]()
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