without making any statement whatever, I showed the Grinch and the Whos together at the table, and made a pun of the Grinch carving the 'roast beast.'. I got into a situation where I sounded like a second-rate preacher or some biblical truism. Seuss: "I got hung up getting the Grinch out of the mess. Biographers Judith and Neil Morgan wrote, "It was the easiest book of his career to write, except for its conclusion." According to Dr. Seuss wrote the book quickly and was mostly finished with it within a few weeks. Seuss claimed he was the inspiration for the character, as his wife's health problems and his dismay with the commercialization of Christmas made him feel "very Grinchish" as he looked in the mirror one year on December 26. Helen, who had ongoing medical problems and had suffered a small stroke in April 1957, nevertheless acted as an unofficial editor, as she had with previous Dr. He had recently completed The Cat in the Hat and was in the midst of founding Beginner Books with Phyllis and Bennett Cerf and his wife, Helen Palmer Geisel. Seuss began work on How the Grinch Stole Christmas! a couple of years later, around the beginning of 1957. Seuss called "The Hoobub and the Grinch," which was originally published in the May 1955 edition of Redbook magazine. The Grinch first appeared in a 33-line illustrated poem by Dr. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs.
Demy folio,, full pictorial cloth sans dust jacket, unpaginated.
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