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McElligot's Pool is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and published by Random House in 1947. In the story, a boy named Marco, who first appeared in Geisel's 1937 book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, imagines a wide variety of fantastic fish that could be swimming in the pond ...
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May 14, 2013 · In this colorful picture book, a boy named Marco goes fishing in a small pond called McElligot's Pool. As he sits waiting for a bite, a farmer tells him "You'll never catch fish in McElligot's Pool!" Marco, however, refuses to be discouraged, and thus, the story unfolds. McElligot's Pool is a Seuss classic from the distant era before even The ...
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McElligot's Pool is a great story of a child not listening to a nay-sayer and proceeding with positivity and the optimism of a hopeful angler. Throughout, in classic Seuss fashion, the child displays the imagination of youth as he describes the possibilities of fish that he could catch if he remains "patient and cool."
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Mar 2, 2021 · The publisher of Dr. Seuss books decided to stop printing six books, including McElligot's Pool, which depicts a boy's imagination of exotic fish. The book is accused of stereotyping Inuit, gauchos and Tibetans, but the author argues that it is a charming story and not offensive.
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McElligot's Pool is Seuss's sixth book, published in 1947, seven years after his previous. It went on to win the Young Reader's Choice Award three years later. Pool features the protagonist of And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street, Marco, and again centers on the same themes of child imagination and how it is restricted by the adult world, as he describes the colorful array of fish he ...
Nov 5, 2013 · Books. McElligot's Pool. Dr. Seuss. RH Childrens Books, Nov 5, 2013 - Juvenile Fiction - 64 pages. Imagination runs wild in this Caldecott Honor-winning tale featuring Dr. Seuss's inimitable voice and hysterical illustrations. The first Seuss title to feature full-color art on every other page, this adventurous picture book tells of Marco-who ...
