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Dr Seuss Is Releasing A New Book This Year; Confirms Your Childhood Is Still Alive And Well

Unlike him. He is still very dead.

by Meg Watson  20 February 2015

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Just a few weeks after famous author and very elderly lady Harper Lee announced plans to publish another book like the one you read lots in high school, famous rhymer and very dead man Dr Seuss has announced plans to publish another book like the ones you read lots in primary school.

See! Everything’s fine! Nothing ever changes and we’ll all be young forever.

With its first announcement coming via Good Morning America this morning, What Pet Should I Get? will be released on July 28 this year as the legendary children’s author’s first book in 25 years. If you ever need to know it for pub trivia: he died in 1991.

Set to be published by Random House, the book was made possible by the discovery of drafts and sketches found by the author’s widow in 2013. It’s estimated that the soon-to-be-released text was written sometime between 1958 and 1962 as it features the same brother and sister characters as One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish published in 1960, but it’s unknown why it never went ahead at the time.

Even better: there was enough material found to constitute two whole new books! No solid information has been released for the other titles, but the President of Random House Children’s Books Barbara Marcus has told The Wall Street Journal they’re “in the process of getting them ready for publication”.

“[What Pet Should I Get?] is up to the level of what one expects from a Dr Seuss book,” she said. “The humour, the wonderful illustrations, the rhyming, the imagination, all the things that are so Seussian.”

To help pass the time till July and get you right back in the mood for tongue twisters and whimsy, here’s an animated version of Green Eggs and Ham that’s way better than the time Mike Myers haunted your dreams as the Cat In The Hat.

While we’re at it, here’s an audiobook version of Seuss’ last book The Places You’ll Go, read by John Lithgow from Third Rock From The Sun just because.