McElligot’s Pool

Dr. Seuss

64 pages, Hardcover

ISBN: 0394800834

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Language: English

Publish: -725817600000

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Who knows what fantastic fish might swim in McElligot’s Pool!

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 Cat In The Hat. It’s a single poetic variation on the theme of adult skepticism that’s no match for childhood faith and daydreaming. Despite the unpromising nature of McElligot’s Pool, the boy is all optimism: what if the pool is deeper than anyone thinks? What if it connects to an underground stream that flows under the town to the sea? Might not all sorts of fish then swim up the stream and be caught here? “I might catch an eel… (Well, I might. It depends.) A long twisting eel with a lot of strange bends. And, oddly enough, with a head at both ends!” The moral of the story is straightforward: “If I wait long enough, if I’m patient and cool,/ Who knows what I’ll catch in McElligot’s pool?”

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