And somehow, the publicity agent entices Mayzie into signing. The mayor jumps on his soapbox and has hysterics about daisies taking over. The doctor sees her in terms of his future. The principal treats her like a diseased thing that has to be isolated. What’s not nice is the adults’ reactions. A nice bit of science in terms of where daisies grow. All those lovely books and so very Seussian in their positions, lol. The illustrations are lively in softly bright colors. It makes you want to sing along as you read. Seuss has done a beautiful job of rhyming the story and the children’s dialogue. Hmmm, makes me wonder if Mayzie has been washing her hair! Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Sneetches and Other Stories, Horton Hatches the Egg & Horton Hears a Who!, Green Eggs and Ham, The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories, The Lorax, Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!, Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose, The King's Stilts, Scrambled Eggs Super!, Bartholomew and the Oobleck, Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories, You're Only Old Once!, My Many Colored Days, McElligot's Pool, If I Ran the Circus, Sleep Book, I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories, I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!Ī standalone story about appearances, celebrity, and they love me, they love me not… My TakeĪs I started reading, I suddenly thought of parental admonitions about washing behind your ears lest potatoes start to grow, lol. Seussįantasy, picture book in Paperback edition that was published by Random House for Young Readers on Januand has 56 pages. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. (Feb.I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review.

One great success is the daisy itself, which conveys much human emotion through its stalk, leaves and petals.

The economy of line of his best work gives way here to clutter, and the colors combine heavily and sometimes even harshly. Much of the text lacks the snap and panache of standard Seuss verse, and the artwork-extrapolated from Seuss sketches-seems off-kilter too.

While the premise and concluding moral are all Seuss, the posthumous execution falls flat. The attendant media buzz makes a celebrity of Mayzie and her daisy, and she learns the hard way about the high cost of fame. The phenomenon is followed by a lengthy and predictable scramble of adults rushing in to solve the problem. The Cat in the Hat, jaunty-looking as ever, introduces and narrates the tale of young Mayzie McGrew, who one day mysteriously sprouts a daisy from her head. While fans are sure to be tickled by the prospect of Seussian entertainment, they are likely to be disappointed in the ``also-ran'' flavor of this picture book, adapted from an animated TV special. More than three years after his death comes a new work from bestselling and beloved Seuss (Theodor Geisel).

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