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Bartholomew and the Oobleck: (Caldecott Honor Book) (Classic Seuss)

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In this Caldecott Honor–winning picture book, sign up for Bartholomew Cubbins in Dr. Seuss’s classic tale of one king’s magical mishap. Bored with rain, sun, fog, and snow, King Derwin of Didd summons his royal magicians to create something new and exciting to fall from the sky. What he gets is a storm of sticky green globs called Oobleck, which soon causes a royal mess. But with the help of the wise page boy Bartholomew, the king (along side young readers) learns that the most straightforward words can occasionally solve the biggest problems.

Bartholomew and the Oobleck easily qualifies as a Seuss classic, first told way back in 1949. And its message–the importance of owning up to your mistakes and saying that you are sorry–is as timeless now as it was once then.

Bartholomew Cubbins serves thanklessly as pageboy to King Derwin of Didd, a headstrong man who’s determined he isn’t satisfied with mere sun, fog, rain, and snow. (“Humph! The things that come down from my sky!”) He wants something else, something uniquely his own, so he calls in his royal magicians (“Shuffle, duffle, muzzle, muff. Fista, wista, mista-cuff. We are men of groans and howls, mystic men who eat boiled owls”). Happy to oblige, the magicians tell the king they may be able to make “oobleck” fall from the sky, only nobody–not even the magicians–knows just what oobleck is. But after a night of arcane incantations, everyone in the kingdom gets a taste of the stuff (when it comes to the Captain of the Guard, literally!), as the green, gluey goo gums up everything in sight.

Of course, Bartholomew tries to help, but it’s up to the king to save the day, as he learns to utter not magic words but simple words with magic in them: “I’m sorry.” (Ages 4 to 8) –Paul Hughes

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