She was cleaning out a drawer, she said, and "it popped up like the daisy. The work, originally written as a screenplay 20 years ago, then abandoned, was tucked away and forgotten. "There's a sweetness about this little girl and there certainly is a great deal of mystique to one little daisy dealing with expressions of every known emotion. Geisel said, in a statement issued from her home in California. (The book is available in stores throughout Tampa Bay.) "The first ones went to the West Coast so they'd all arrive in bookstores across the country on the same day." 9,) we shipped 250,000 copies out the door," noted Kelly Grunther of Random House in New York, Dr. The first new Seuss book published in four years, it introduces Mayzie, a flower-child, to a world that dances with the Cat in the Hat, where an elephant named Horton hears a Who and a sleeping child dreams of Green Eggs and Ham.Ĭonsidered by many to be the world's most-loved children's author, Seuss left the manuscript in a drawer where it was accidentally found by his widow, Audrey, as she cleaned house after his death. "When a powerhouse like Theodor Geisel dies, people will resurrect whatever they can. "It's going to sell a lot of copies," said Andy Laties, owner of the Children's Bookstore.
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