It’s been the year of the “found” book hit. First Harper Lee‘s Go Set a Watchman sells a million plus copies right out of the gate and today Dr. Seuss –who’s real name is Theodor Geisel, been dead for almost 25 years– comes out today with What Pet Should I Get?. Cathy Goldsmith, VP and Associate Publisher at Random House Young Readers, says though the good doctor’s gone, his words just won’t quit.
“Shortly after Dr. Seuss died his widow did some renovations in the house and I think the box was packed up then and just forgotten about. I went literally running down the hall to my bosses office and said they found a box. They want us to come and look. We were literally on a plane like three business days later!”
Bill Dreyer, the curator for the Art of Seuss says that…
“Dr. Seuss is more popular now than he was during his lifetime. In the 25 years since he’s now been gone, another 450 million books have been sold.
I understand from Random House that there are more books that will come out of this find.”
Let’s just hope we don’t find out the Lorax was a white supremacist. (Insert clever rhyme here.)
(via CBS News)
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