Who’sWho& What’s What
Who’sWho& What’s What in the books of
Compiled by Edward Connery Lathem
Hanover, New Hampshire Dartmouth College 2000 This publication commemorates the seventy-fifth anniversary of the graduation from Dartmouth College of THEODOR SEUSS GEISEL and was made possible by the William L. Bryant Foundation established by William J. Bryant Dartmouth Class of 1925
Available on the Internet at http://www.dartmouth.edu/ ~drseuss/whoswho.pdf
Title-page illustration and “Dr. Seuss” signature reproduced by courtesy of Audrey S. Geisel (Dartmouth L.H.D. 2000) and Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. Who’sWho& What’s What The Dr. Seuss Books of Theodor Seuss Geisel
AND TO THINK THAT I SAW IT ON MULBERRY STREET (1937) THE 500 HATS OF BARTHOLOMEW CUBBINS (1938) THE SEVEN LADY GODIVAS (1939) THE KING’S STILTS (1939) HORTON HATCHES THE EGG (1940) McELLIGOT’S POOL (1947) THIDWICK THE BIG-HEARTED MOOSE (1948) BARTHOLOMEW AND THE OOBLECK (1949) IF I RAN THE ZOO (1950) SCRAMBLED EGGS SUPER! (1953) HORTON HEARS A WHO! (1954) ON BEYOND ZEBRA (1955) IF I RAN THE CIR- CUS (1956) THE CAT IN THE HAT (1957) HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRIST- MAS (1957) YERTLE THE TURTLE AND OTHER STORIES (1958) THE CAT IN THE HAT COMES BACK! (1958) HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! (1959) GREEN EGGS AND HAM (1960) ONE FISH TWO FISH RED FISH BLUE FISH (1960) THE SNEETCHES AND OTHER STORIES (1961) DR. SEUSS’S SLEEP BOOK (1962) DR. SEUSS’S ABC (1963) HOP ON POP (1963) FOX IN SOCKS (1965) I HAD TROU- BLE IN GETTING TO SOLLA SOLLEW (1965) THE CAT IN THE HAT SONG BOOK (1967) THE FOOT BOOK (1968) I CAN LICK 30 TIGERS TODAY! AND OTHER STORIES (1969) MY BOOK ABOUT ME (1969) I CAN DRAW IT MYSELF (1970) MR. BROWN CAN MOO! CAN YOU? (1970) THE LORAX (1971) MARVIN K. MOONEY WILL YOU PLEASE GO NOW! (1972) DID I EVER TELL YOU HOW LUCKY YOU ARE? (1973) THE SHAPE OF ME AND OTHER STUFF (1973) GREAT DAY FOR UP (1974) THERE’S A WOCKET IN MY POCKET! (1974) OH, THE THINKS YOU CAN THINK! (1975) THE CAT’S QUIZZER (1976) I CAN READ WITH MY EYES SHUT! (1978) OH SAY CAN YOU SAY? (1979) HUNCHES IN BUNCHES (1982) THE BUTTER BATTLE BOOK (1984) YOU’RE ONLY OLD ONCE! (1986) I AM NOT GOING TO GET UP TODAY! (1987) OH, THE PLACES YOU’LL GO! (1990) [AND POSTHUMOUSLY:] DAISY-HEAD MAYZIE (1994) MY MANY COLORED DAYS (1996) HOORAY FOR DIFFENDOOFER DAY! (1998) A Alice
A Letter of the alphabet central to a ques- declares have come, as his throne is progres- tionin The Cat’s Quizzer sively elevated, within his domainin “Yer- tle the Turtle,” as part of Yertle the Turtle and A and S Man Designation at the Golden Other Stories 2: One of the contexts (“Up in Years Clinic of Dr. Ginns, as the physician the air feet”) of the subject coveredin The specializing in “Antrums and Shins”in Foot Book You’re Only Old Once! airplane Vehicle that is the source of con- Abel, Curtis A. Name on a roadside sign fetti, dumped “while everyone cheers,” as (identifying Salina, Kansas, as “Birthplace / part of Marco’s fantasizingin And to Think of / Curtis A. Abel”), being one of a multi- That I Saw It on Mulberry Street See also: tude of directional indicators featuredin I jet; plane Can Read with My Eyes Shut! a-la-hoop Description of the manner of abilities Among the subjects about which sleepwalking engaged in by the Hoop-Soup- information is to be provided by the vol- Snoop Groupin Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book ume’s purported authorin My Book About Me Alaric, Sir Keeper of the King’s Records in The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins Abrasion-Contusions Race cars said to be driven by Circus McGurkus’s Colliding- alarm Among the things (“The alarm can Collusions in If I Ran the Circus ring.”) the narrator says will not cause him to leave his bedin I Am NOT Going to Get Act, Great Balancing Description and/or Up Today! definition of the nature of Lifein Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Alaska 1: Among the places, cited as hav- ing been confirmed by Principal Grumm’s address Among the things about which research, where daisies it is said can grow information is to be provided by the vol- in Daisy-Head Mayzie 2: One of the states ume’s purported authorin My Book About about which the narrator declares, indiffer- Me ently, “Let the kids get up”in I Am NOT Agent, Finagle the “A wheeler and dealer Going to Get Up Today! who knew every trick,” and who undertook Aldermen City officials who are present on the commercial representation of Mayzie a reviewing stand, as part of Marco’s fanta- McGrew and her daisyin Daisy-Head sizingin And to Think That I Saw It on Mayzie Mulberry Street Aghast, Bombastic Bird the egg of which Ali Fellow (“brave Ali”) who “fought his (“And I saved it for last . . .”) was secured by way through” to secure for Peter T. Hooper Peter T. Hooperin Scrambled Eggs Super! an egg of the Mt. Strookoo Cuckooin “Ah-a-a-a-a-a-h . . . Choo” Title of a Scrambled Eggs Super! See also: Sard, Ali songin The Cat in the Hat Song Book Alice Name of both Hooded Klopfersin air 1: Among the things King Yertle Happy Birthday to You!
• 3 • all ape cakes
all Among the words featured for use as with-the-Sky,” and basic to the story’s devel- part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop opmentin Bartholomew and the Oobleck all-er Seussian expression of an extended, animal, big yellow and animal, one-horned more inclusive form of “all,” as well as a ren- Among the creatures about which questions dering of “all are” (devised to rhyme with are askedin The Cat’s Quizzer “taller”) in Happy Birthday to You! ankles Among the things the Cat in the Allergy Whiz Characterization of Dr. Hat says, “You can read about . . .” in I Can Pollenin You’re Only Old Once! Read with My Eyes Shut! all-est Seussian expression of a superlative Annie, Aunt Name cited (as part of a form of “all” (devised to rhyme with phrase) in providing examples of use of the “tallest”)in Happy Birthday to You! letter A/a in Dr. Seuss’s ABC alligator and alligators 1: Among the crea- Another Chance Among the things cited tures cited as associated with a state of being (“Waiting for . . . Another Chance”) as rea- sons for people being at the Waiting “up” in Great Day for Up 2: Creature cited (as part of a phrase) in providing examples Place in Oh, the Places You’ll Go! of use of the letter A/ain Dr. Seuss’s ABC Antrums One of the areas (together with Shins) constituting the medical specialty of alone State in which, it is said, “you’ll be Dr. Ginnsin You’re Only Old Once! quite a lot” and within which context may encounter things “that can scare you so ants Creatures the Cat in the Hat says one much you won’t want to go on”in Oh, the can read “all about”in I Can Read with My Places You’ll Go! Eyes Shut! alphabet 1: Subject central to the story’s ants’ eggs Part of the charge (together with developmentin On Beyond Zebra 2: Sub- “bees’ legs,” “dried-fried clam chowder,” ject of the book’s coveragein Dr. Seuss’s and Poo-a-Doo Powder) said to have been ABC used to load the Yooks’ Kick-a-Poo Kidin The Butter Battle Book anchors Among the things the Cat in the Hat says, “You can read about . . .”in I Can anywhere Among the locations asked Read with My Eyes Shut! about, as possibly being a place for liking and/or eating the food treated ofin Green And now Papa’s in the pail. Sentence cited Eggs and Ham in providing examples of use of the letter P/pin Dr. Seuss’s ABC Apartments, Fairfax Residence at Who-ville of Jo-Join Horton Hears a Who! anger 1: Among the subjects about which Apartment 12-J Fairfax Apartments location information is to be provided by the volume’s of Jo-Join Horton Hears a Who! purported authorin My Book About Me 2: Emotion experienced by King Derwin ape cakes Alternative designation of throughout “The-Year-the-King-Got-Angry- “grape cakes”in Oh Say Can You Say?
• 4 • apes back door keys
apes Circus McGurkus’s creatures (Sir information is to be provided by the volume’s Beers, Sir Bopps, Sir Dawkins, Sir Hawkins, purported authorin My Book About Me Sir Hector, Sir Jawks, Sir Jeers, and Sir Vector) Audio-Telly-o-Tally-o Count Means cited said to perform as its Tournament Knights as being that of determining the number of in If I Ran the Circus See also: horn-tooting sleepersin Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book apes Aunt Annie’s alligator Phrase cited in pro- appearance Among the subjects about viding examples of use of the letter A/ain which information is to be provided by the Dr. Seuss’s ABC volume’s purported authorin My Book About Me Australian fish Aquatic creature (“With a kangaroo’s pouch”) Marco speculates he April 16, 1078 Date on which Lady Lulu might catchin McElligot’s Pool “was kicked by her horse”in The Seven autograph collection Unit of the book Lady Godivas where specified entries are to be secured by Arabella, Lady One of Lord Godiva’s the volume’s purported authorin My Book daughtersin The Seven Lady Godivas About Me Ark, Noah’s whole Biblical vessel and its awfully awfully awful Characterization of cargo that, Gerald McGrew declares, people one’s condition “when you can’t make up will ultimately regard McGrew Zoo as “bet- your mind”in Hunches in Bunches ter than” in If I Ran the Zoo ax One of the words cited in providing examples of where it “comes in handy” to armament, combat Subject central to the storyin The Butter Battle Book have the letter X/x in Dr. Seuss’s ABC Baboona, Foona-Lagoona Creatures said to a-snooze Description of the sleeping state be asleep at Foona-Lagoonain Dr. Seuss’s of the inhabitants of Who-ville when the Sleep Book Grinch made his Christmas Eve descent upon the townin How the Grinch Stole baby Among the words cited in providing Christmas examples of use of the letter B/bin Dr. Seuss’s ABC Asso-see-eye-ation, Katroo Happy Birthday Organization said to have responsibility for back 1: Among the words featured for use the training of Birthday Birdsin Happy as part of a phrase or sentence in Hop on Birthday to You! Pop 2: One of the particularities (“Back feet”) of the subject coveredin The Foot Atrocious, Spotted Circus McGurkus crea- Book 3: Among the words featured as part ture it is said “chews up and eats with the of a tongue-twisting sentencein Oh Say Can greatest of ease / Things like carpets and You Say? sidewalks and people and trees”in If I Ran the Circus back door keys Among the things the girl narrator cites by namein The Shape of Me attributes Among the subjects about which and Other Stuff
• 5 • Back Room bandwagon
Back Room Working area of the Boys con- Cat in the Hat 2: Among the objects that stituting the weapons-planning groups of were, it is suggested, left to be suppliedin I the Yooks and the Zooksin The Butter Battle Can Draw It Myself 3: Among the words Book featured for use as part of a phrase or sen- tencein Hop on Pop 4: Object (“a race / bad 1: Among the various kinds and on a horse / on a ball / with a fish”) it is descriptions of fish citedin One Fish Two suggested one might think aboutin Oh, Fish Red Fish Blue Fish 2: Among the words the Thinks You Can Think! See also: base- featured for use as part of a phrase or sen- balls; Biggel-Ball; ping-pong ball; snow tencein Hop on Pop balls; soccer balls Bad-Animal-Catching-Machine Device Ballew, Dr. One of the Golden Years Clinic Gerald McGrew fantasizes about building, to physicians about whom it is predicted “all be used in capturing for McGrew Zoo crea- . . . will prescribe a prescription for you”in tures “too dangerous to catch with bare You’re Only Old Once! hands”in If I Ran the Zoo balloon and balloons 1: Among the means baggy bears Among the kinds of bears of conveyance (“go / by balloon”) suggested with which Uncle Terwilliger is said to for departurein Marvin K. Mooney Will You dancein “My Uncle Terwilliger Waltzes Please Go Now! 2: Among the things about with Bears,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song which questions are askedin The Cat’s Book Quizzer 3: Among the things the boy nar- bagpipes Musical instrument that it is said rator cites by name in The Shape of Me and Mrs. Fox “Makes . . . out of / straws and Other Stuff 4: Among the objects (“red, socks”in Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! blue and orange balloons”) that were, it is suggested, left to be suppliedin I Can Draw bah, hoo-to foo-to boo-to Subject involved It Myself 5: Among the things cited as asso- in the theft treated ofin “Somebody Stole ciated with a state of being “up”in Great My Hoo-to Foo-to Boo-to Bah,” as part of The Day for Up See also: Marvin O’Gravel Cat in the Hat Song Book Balloon Face BAHH Seussian rendering of “Bah”in bananas 1: Among the things about which Bartholomew and the Oobleck questions are askedin The Cat’s Quizzer 2: Among the things cited as pertaining to an Balancing Act, Great Description and/or arithmetic calculation in “I Can Figure Fig- definition of the nature of Life in Oh, the ures,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book Places You’ll Go! band and bands Among the words fea- Balber Element of the magicians’ incanta- tured as part of tongue-twisting textsin Fox tion “Malber, Balber, Tidder, Tudd”in The in Socks See also: Boom Bands; brass 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins band; Butter-Up Band; Snore-a-Snort Band ball and balls 1: Among the objects bandwagon Vehicle Marco fantasizes involved in the Cat’s Up-up-up gamein The about causing to be pulled by an elephant
• 6 • bang-binging beaches
and two giraffesin And to Think That I Saw baseballs Among the things cited as asso- It on Mulberry Street ciated with a state of being “up”in Great bang-binging Description of the sound Day for Up made by the hunters’ gunsin Thidwick the basket Object, belonging to the person Big-Hearted Moose being addressed, about which the narrator bang-bouncing Description of the action of asks whether he/she ever had “the feeling” the bullets fired by the hunters’ gunsin that a creature called Wasket is present Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose there in There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! bangs Among the words featured as part bat and bats 1: Among the words featured of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks for use as part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop 2: Among the objects used by Bang-ups Possible impediments (together the Little Cats to deal with the Snow with “Hang-ups”) that it is said “can happen Spotsin The Cat in the Hat Comes Back! to you”in Oh, the Places You’ll Go! bathroom 1: Place where the Cat in the Bar-ba-loots, Brown Creatures said to have formerly been seen under the Truffula Trees, Hat is found “eating a cake in the tub” in “frisking about in their Bar-ba-loot suits”in The Cat in the Hat Comes Back! 2: Place The Lorax about which the Very Odd Hunch disturbed the narrator by inquiring, “Do you think it Barber Among the words cited in provid- might be helpful / if you went . . . ?”in ing examples of use of the letter B/b in Hunches in Bunches Dr. Seuss’s ABC battle Among the words featured as part of barber shop Place the narrator, in confu- tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks sion, did not know whether it or Boise, Idaho, should be his destinationin Hunches Battle of Hastings Lord Godiva’s intended in Bunches destination on the day of his deathin The barber shop poles, soft-tufted Among the Seven Lady Godivas places where or on which creatures are said Bay See: Boober Bay; Hudson Bay to be sleepingin Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book Ba-zoo, Brothers Characters said to have a barg-ued Seussian expression used by the problem with the manner of the growth of narrator (“We argued and we barg-ued!”) their hairin Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky when describing the process by which, in You Are? discussion with himself, he finally decided, as between alternative hunches, “what to Bazzim Place of residence of the Nazzim, do”in Hunches in Bunches who is identified as owner of the creature called Spazzimin On Beyond Zebra barn door Portal central to Lady Hedwig’s Horse Truth discovery: “Don’t lock the barn beaches Setting of the storyin “The door after the horse has been stolen!”in Sneetches,” as part of The Sneetches and Other The Seven Lady Godivas Stories
• 7 • Beagle-Beaked . . . bedchamber
Beagle-Beaked-Bald-Headed Grinch finest that grows.”)in “The Big Brag,” as Among the birds seen by Peter T. Hooper part of Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories while searching for eggs, but which it proved beard, ten-foot Whiskers on a man who is “weren’t laying that day”in Scrambled Eggs part of Marco’s fantasizingin And to Think Super! That I Saw It on Mulberry Street bean, green string Among the things cited Beast See: East Beast; West Beast; Who- as pertaining to an arithmetic calculation roast-beast in “I Can Figure Figures,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book beck Seussian rendering of “beckon” (devised to rhyme with “neck”)in You’re bean, navy Bullet said to be used (“a stale Only Old Once! navy bean / That you’ve dunked for three weeks in old sour kerosene”) when killing Becker, Miss Golden Years Clinic staff the creature called Sneedlein On Beyond member characterized as “your Zebra beckoner”in You’re Only Old Once! beans 1: Among the things the boy narra- bed 1: Among the objects or surfaces said tor cites by namein The Shape of Me and to have been bumped by the kites of Thing Other Stuff 2: Among the things (“You can One and Thing Two while playing the Cat’s shoot at me with peas and beans!”) the nar- Fun-in-a-Box gamein The Cat in the Hat rator says will not cause him to leave his 2: Among the objects between which pink bedin I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! stains are transferred during the course of See also: pork and wee beans the spot-removal actions central to the story’s developmentin The Cat in the Hat bean shooter bugs, keen-shooter, mean- Comes Back! 3: Among the places with shooter Characterization of the creatures regard to which the Cat in the Hat says, “I called Chuggs, which Gerald McGrew fan- can read in . . .”in I Can Read with My Eyes tasizes about capturing for McGrew Zooin Shut! 4: Among the things the boy narrator If I Ran the Zoo cites by namein The Shape of Me and Other bear and bears 1: Among Thidwick’s Stuff 5: Among the words featured for use antler-riding creaturesin Thidwick the Big- as part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Hearted Moose 2: Among the creatures Pop 6: Object about which Ned complains about which questions are askedin The (“I do not like / my little bed.”)in One Fish Cat’s Quizzer 3: Creatures central to the Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish 7: Object the songin “My Uncle Terwilliger Waltzes narrator says the shaking of will not cause with Bears,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song him to leavein I Am NOT Going to Get Up Book See also: baggy bears; honey bears; Today! polar bears; shaggy bears; waggy bears bedchamber Room of King Derwin’s Bear, Mr. Creature that contends boastfully palace to which the royal magicians are sum- with Mr. Rabbit (“I’m the greatest of moned “from their musty hole beneath the smellers. . . . / This nose on my face is the dungeon”in Bartholomew and the Oobleck
• 8 • Bed Spreaders Bee-Watcher-Watcher
Bed Spreaders Characters who are said to beep-beep-beeper Musician characterized “spread spreads on beds”in Oh Say Can as possibly being the one “that you need” You Say? in “Beeper Booper,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book bee and bees 1: Among the words featured for use as part of a phrase or sentencein beeper One of the musical instruments that Hop on Pop 2: Among the creatures about is a central feature of the songin “Beeper which questions are askedin The Cat’s Booper,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Quizzer 3: Among the creatures that were, Book it is suggested, left to be supplied in I Can “Beeper Booper” Title of a songin The Draw It Myself 4: Among the creatures Cat in the Hat Song Book (“bees,” as well as “bees on threes”) the Cat in the Hat says, “You can read about . . .” beeping Among the noise-making in I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! attempts (together with “yapping” and “yip- 5: Among the things King Yertle declares ping” and “bipping”) exerted by the Whos have come, as his throne is progressively ele- while trying to make themselves heardin vated, within his domainin “Yertle the Tur- Horton Hears a Who! tle,” as part of Yertle the Turtle and Other Stor- Beers, Sir One of Circus McGurkus’s Tour- ies 6: Among the things the girl narrator nament Knightsin If I Ran the Circus cites by namein The Shape of Me and Other Stuff 7: Among Thidwick’s antler-riding bees’ legs Part of the charge (together with creaturesin Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose “ants’ eggs,” “dried-fried clam chowder,” 8: Insects that bothersomely swarmed and Poo-a-Doo Powder) said to have been toward Mayzie McGrew’s daisyin Daisy- used to load the Yooks’ Kick-a-Poo Kid in Head Mayzie 9: Insects the “world’s sweet- The Butter Battle Book est” ones of which are said to be fed upon by beet, red Among the foods the singer the frogs called Wogs in Scrambled Eggs says he/she could eatin “The Super- Super! 10: Among those it is said singing is Supper March,” as part of The Cat in the “good for” (for their “tongues and necks and Hat Song Book knees”)in “Let Us All Sing,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book 11: Among the beetles, tweetle Creatures that relate to a segment of the presentation of tongue-twist- things Mr. Brown “can go like,” making the sound “buzz”in Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can ing texts in Fox in Socks You? 12: What the narrator says “I am” (“a Bee-Watcher, Hawtch-Hawtcher Character busy, buzzy bee”) on a “Yellow Day”in My said to have as his job at Hawtch-Hawtch “to Many Colored Days See also: bees’ legs; keep both his eyes on the lazy town bee”in bumblebee Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? beep Description of the action of playing a Bee-Watcher-Watcher Character at beeperin “Beeper Booper,” as part of The Hawtch-Hawtch said to have as his job Cat in the Hat Song Book See also: bopulous watching the Bee-Watcherin Did I Ever Tell beep You How Lucky You Are?
• 9 • Beeze, Mr. best friend
Beeze, Mr. Art instructor at Diffendoofer part of The Sneetches and Other Stories See Schoolin Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! also: checkerboard belly Beezlenut Blossoms Sole source of food, bellyache Stomach upset experienced by said to be “sweeter than sweet,” of “the the narrator, as a result of having eaten too world’s sweetest bees”in Scrambled much at the celebration of the outcome of the Eggs Super! “special test” upon the results of which Dif- Beezle-Nut oil or juice Substance in which fendoofer School’s future depended in the kangaroos and members of the Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! Wickersham family intend to boil Horton’s Ben Creature that (together with Bim) “small speck of dust” in Horton Hears a relates to a segment of the presentation of Who! tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks Beezle-Nut stew What Horton warns Ben-Deezing, West Upper Place from would result from the threatened boiling in which is said to come Circus McGurkus’s Beezle-Nut oil of his “small speck of Zoom-a-Zoop Troupein If I Ran the Circus dust”in Horton Hears a Who! bends Among the words featured as part Beezlenut Trees Arboreal source of of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks Beezlenut Blossomsin Scrambled Eggs Super! Benny Alternative form of reference to the title character of the songin “Lullaby for beft Creatures about which is asked the Mr. Benjamin B. Bickelbaum,” as part of The reason they “always go to the left”in Oh, Cat in the Hat Song Book the Thinks You Can Think! bent Among the words featured as part of bell, holiday Object rung to announce spe- cial observances at the Kingdom of Diddin tongue-twisting texts in Fox in Socks Bartholomew and the Oobleck berked Among the sounds made by Syl- Bellar Among the creatures said to be vester McMonkey McBean’s “very peculiar found “in the cellar”in There’s a Wocket in machine” for adding stars to bellies in “The My Pocket! Sneetches,” as part of The Sneetches and Other Stories Bellows and Candle Designation of a test said to have been “perfected” by the Golden Berlin 1: One of the cities about which the Years Clinic’s “World-Renowned Ear Man,” narrator declares, indifferently, “Let the kids Von Crandallin You’re Only Old Once! get up”in I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! 2: Place where Gretchen von Schwinn is said bell ringer and bell tower Member of King to possess an extraordinarily featured man- Derwin’s staff and the location of his post at dolinin Oh Say Can You Say? the palacein Bartholomew and the Oobleck best-est Seussian expression of a superla- belly Abdominal area on which the pres- tive form of “best”in Happy Birthday to You! ence or absence of stars is central to the story’s developmentin “The Sneetches,” as best friend Among the subjects about
• 10 • Best of the Best Big Tent
which information is to be provided by the their nests anew “each night”in Dr. Seuss’s volume’s purported authorin My Book Sleep Book About Me big 1: Among the words featured as part Best of the Best 1: Among the characteri- of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks zations of one’s birthday, as declared by the 2: One of the particularities (“Big feet”) of Birthday Bird of Katrooin Happy Birthday the subject coveredin The Foot Book to You! 2: Characterization of what it is 3: Size of one of the sorts of animals, “pink said usually “you’ll be” upon joining “the pigs” and “big pigs,” associated with Pete high fliers / who soar to high heights”in Briggsin Oh Say Can You Say? See also: Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Pete Briggs’ Pink Pigs Big Pigs Pigpen Better Break Among the things cited Big Birthday Party Designation of the (“Waiting for . . . a Better Break”) as reasons observance held at Katroo on one’s for people being at the Waiting Place in Oh, birthdayin Happy Birthday to You! the Places You’ll Go! Big-Boy Boomeroo Alternative designa- Better Hunch Creature-represented tion of the Bitsy Big-Boy Boomerooin The impulse that “yanked off / the Homework Butter Battle Book Hunch’s hat”in Hunches in Bunches Big Brag”, “The Title of a storyas part of Bickelbaum, Mr. Benjamin B. Character Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories serenaded by the songin “Lullaby for Mr. Benjamin B. Bickelbaum,” as part of The Cat Big Cat One of the alternative forms of ref- in the Hat Song Book erence to the Cat in the Hatin The Cat in the Hat Comes Back! bicycle 1: Vehicle ridden by the “spooky pale green pants / With nobody inside Biggel-Ball Component of the Audio- ’em”in “What Was I Scared Of?,” as part of Telly-o-Tally-o Count mechanism that drops The Sneetches and Other Stories 2: Vehicle “whenever it sees a new sleeper go flop”in “made for three” associated with the crea- Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book ture named Mikein One Fish Two Fish Red biggered and biggering Seussian expres- Fish Blue Fish 3: Vehicle the Sour Hunch sions of “enlarged” and “enlarging”in insists that the narrator immediately attend The Lorax to oiling, rather than go off with Jamesin Hunches in Bunches See also: one-wheeled Big-Hearted Characterization of Thidwick, bicycle; bike the principal character of the storyin Thid- wick the Big-Hearted Moose Biffalo Buff Among the names it is said Mrs. McCave often wishes she had given one Big Something Designation of the drawing of her “twenty-three Daves”in “Too Many left to be done totally by the readerin I Can Daves,” as part of The Sneetches and Other Draw It Myself Stories Big Tent Designation of Circus McGurkus’s Biffer-Baum Birds Creatures said to build principal componentin If I Ran the Circus
• 11 • big yellow animal Bird-Flight . . .
big yellow animal Among the creatures (together with “beeping” and “yapping” and about which questions are askedin The “yipping”) exerted by the Whos while trying Cat’s Quizzer to make themselves heardin Horton Hears a Who! Big War Characterization by the Chief Yookero of the up-coming ultimate conflict Bippo-no-Bungus Creatures Gerald between the Yooks and the Zooks in The McGrew fantasizes about capturing “a flock Butter Battle Book of” from the Jungles of Hippo-no-Hungus Big Work Characterization of the Kingdom for McGrew Zoo in If I Ran the Zoo of Binn’s application to “caring for the Bips Abbreviated form of reference, as mighty Dike Trees” in The King’s Stilts expressed by Gerald McGrew, to the crea- bike and bikes 1: Among the means of tures called Bippo-no-Bungusin If I Ran conveyance (“go / by bike”) suggested for the Zoo departurein Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! 2: Among the things the bird and birds 1: Among the things partic- ularly cited and commented upon as features boy narrator cites by name in The Shape of Me and Other Stuff 3: Vehicle “made for of a story in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish 2: Among the creatures it is suggested three,” and to which Mike relates as both rider and pusherin One Fish Two Fish Red one “can think up” in Oh, the Thinks You Fish Blue Fish 4: Among the things cited as Can Think! 3: Among the things King Yer- tle declares have come, as his throne is pro- associated with a state of being “up” in Great Day for Up See also: bicycle; Zike- gressively elevated, within his domain in Bike “Yertle the Turtle,” as part of Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories 4: Animals “billions” of Bim Creature that (together with Ben) which the narrator encountered within the relates to a segment of the presentation of “frightful black tunnel” into which he fell tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks upon escaping from the Perilous Poozers in I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew bin, shin-pin Container used by Pinner 5: Animals central to the egg-quest missions Blinn in which to carry his “Bin shinbone of Peter T. Hooperin Scrambled Eggs Super! pin” devicesin Oh Say Can You Say? 6: Among the things (“The birds can peep.”) Bingle Bug Among Thidwick’s antler- the narrator says will not cause him to leave riding creaturesin Thidwick the Big-Hearted his bedin I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! Moose 7: Animal that is to be drawn and identified by the volume’s purported authorin My Binn, Kingdom of Realm that is the setting Book About Me See also: Biffer-Baum Birds; of the story in The King’s Stilts Birthday Bird; Elephant-Bird; Zinn-a-zu Bipper One of the Fuddnuddler Brothers Birds in Oh Say Can You Say? Bird-Flight Night-Sight Light, Bright bipping Among the noise-making attempts Dwight Device that it is said “might be
• 12 • bird-of-a-bird . . . black
right” as a Christmas present for a father Birthday Horn Instrument said to be used having the name Dwightin Oh Say Can at Katroo, on one’s birthday, to “start the day You Say? right”in Happy Birthday to You! bird-of-a-bird-of-a-bird-of Characteriza- Birthday Lunch Midday meal at Katroo tion of Miss Fuddle-dee-Duddlein On that, on one’s birthday, it is said “as a rule” Beyond Zebra consists of “hot dogs, rolled on a spool”in Happy Birthday to You! birthday 1: Among the subjects about which information and drawn elements are Birthday Pal-alace Location at Katroo to be provided by the volume’s purported where one’s Big Birthday Party is heldin authorin My Book About Me 2: Anniver- Happy Birthday to You! sary celebrated by the song in “Happy Birthday Pet Reservation, Official Katroo Birthday to Little Sally Spingel Spungel Place “in the heart of” Katroo where creatures Sporn,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song are kept to be chosen from as a gift on one’s Book 3: Anniversary central to the story’s birthdayin Happy Birthday to You! coveragein Happy Birthday to You! Birthday Sounding-Off Place, Official Birthday Bird Creature said to be, on one’s Katroo Location at Katroo (“the top of the birthday at Katroo, “in charge of it all” in toppest blue space”) said to be for shouting, Happy Birthday to You! on one’s birthday, “I AM I”in Happy Birth- Birthday Cake Cookers, Official Katroo day to You! Happy Designation of the bakers Snookers Birtram, King Monarch of the Kingdom of and Snookers in Happy Birthday to You! Binnin The King’s Stilts Birthday Express Means said to be avail- Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo Bomb (“filled able for transporting to its intended recipient with mysterious Moo-Lacka-Moo”) said to a gift chosen at the Official Katroo Birthday have been created by both the Yooks and the Pet Reservation in Happy Birthday to You! Zooks as a means of ultimate assault upon Birthday Flower Jungle Place at Katroo each other in The Butter Battle Book said to have “The best-sniffing flowers that Bix, Mr. Character it is said must repair his anyone grows”in Happy Birthday to You! Borfin anew each morningin Did I Ever Tell Birthday Hi-Sign-and-Shake, Secret Katroo You How Lucky You Are? Characterization of the finger-and-toe man- Bixby Among the names cited as possibly ner of exchanging greetings, on one’s birth- being that of the readerin Oh, the Places day, with the Birthday Bird of Katrooin You’ll Go! Happy Birthday to You! black 1: Among the classifications of days Birthday Honk-Honker Musician at citedin My Many Colored Days 2: Among Katroo that it is said plays on one’s birthday the various kinds and descriptions of fish from “high up Mt. Zorn”in Happy Birthday citedin One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish to You! 3: One of the conditions (“Black feet”) of the
• 13 • Black, Mr. bloops
subject coveredin The Foot Book 4: Color the game Stare-Eyesin The Cat’s Quizzer of one of the ducks that are said to “quack- Blinn, Dr. One of the Golden Years Clinic quack” at each otherin Oh Say Can You physicians about whom it is predicted “all Say? 5: Color of the markings “lots of” . . . will prescribe a prescription for you”in which are said to be present on a Glotz You’re Only Old Once! (“spots”) and on a Klotz (“dots”)in Oh Say Can You Say? Blinn, Mr. Character (also known as Pinner Blinn) who, with regard to the dinosaur Dinn, Black, Mr. Among the characters intro- it is said “pins Dinn’s shinbones right back duced, to be featured as part of a phrase or in,” and who is also said to be “the father of sentencein Hop on Pop musical twins” who “lull their daddy to black-bottomed eagle Bird, named Vlad sleep with twin Blinn violins”in Oh Say Vlad-i-koff, to which the Wickersham Broth- Can You Say? ers, after snatching it away, carried “Hor- ton’s clover”in Horton Hears a Who! Blinn violins Musical instruments by the playing of which, it is said, Mr. Blinn’s blackthorn Element of the overgrowth daughters “lull their daddy to sleep”in Oh present at decaying Castle Godiva by the time Say Can You Say? of Lady Hedwig’s Horse Truth discoveryin The Seven Lady Godivas bliskers and blispers What “your poor daddy’s ear” will, it is said, develop “When a black water Among the things it is sug- walrus lisps whispers / through tough rough gested one can “Think of” in Oh, the Thinks whiskers”in Oh Say Can You Say? You Can Think! Bliss Street Thoroughfare the Mulberry blibber blubber Characterization by Mr. Street intersection of which constitutes a crit- Knox of the tongue-twisting texts of Mr. ical site, as part of Marco’s fantasizingin Fox in Fox in Socks And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street Blight, Bus Driver’s Among the ailments block and blocks Among the words fea- asked about by the Quiz-Docs in You’re tured as part of tongue-twisting textsin Fox Only Old Once! in Socks Blindfolded Bowman Circus McGurkus’s Blogg Creature cited by the girl narrator side-show archer, characterized as being in The Shape of Me and Other Stuff “The world’s sharpest sharpshooter”in If I Ran the Circus bloke, fast-moving Among the various kinds and descriptions of fish Marco specu- Blinkey Among the names it is said lates he might catchin McElligot’s Pool Mrs. McCave often wishes she had given one of her “twenty-three Daves”in “Too bloogs Creatures it is suggested one can Many Daves,” as part of The Sneetches and think about “blowing by”in Oh, the Thinks Other Stories You Can Think! blinking Action central to a question about bloops Sounds said to be made by Circus
• 14 • bloozer, three-nozzled boastfulness
McGurkus’s “three-nozzled bloozer”in If I Yertle declares have come, as his throne is Ran the Circus progressively elevated, within his domain in “Yertle the Turtle,” as part of Yertle the Tur- bloozer, three-nozzled Musical instrument tle and Other Stories it is said will be played by a Bolster, as part of Circus McGurkus’s Parade-of-Paradesin blue dots Among the things about which If I Ran the Circus questions are askedin The Cat’s Quizzer Blossoms, Beezlenut Sole source of food, Blue Goo Substance the Utterly Sputter said to be “sweeter than sweet,” of “the was said to be capable of sprinkling on an world’s sweetest bees”in Scrambled Eggs enemyin The Butter Battle Book Super! Blue-Gooer Alternative designation of the blubber, blibber Characterization by Mr. Utterly Sputterin The Butter Battle Book Knox of the tongue-twisting texts of Mr. Foxin Fox in Socks blue-green, dizzy Color Lady Gussie painted her horsein The Seven Lady Godivas blue 1: Among the classifications of days citedin My Many Colored Days 2: Among blue hair Adornment that it is said “is fun the colors it is suggested one can “think / to brush and comb” in One Fish Two Fish about”in Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! Red Fish Blue Fish 3: Among the hues about which the Cat in Blue-Hoo-Fish Creature that was, it is sug- the Hat says, “I can read in . . .” in I Can Read gested, left to be supplied “for fisherman with My Eyes Shut! 4: Among the various Gish”in I Can Draw It Myself kinds and descriptions of fish citedin One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish 5: Among blues Description of the pills of which it is the words featured as part of tongue-twisting said by the Pill Drill voice, “I take three . . . at textsin Fox in Socks 6: Color of one of the half past eight / to slow my exhalation ducks that are said to “quack-quack” at each rate.” in You’re Only Old Once! other in Oh Say Can You Say? 7: Color of blueski Seussian rendering of “blue” (de- one of the forms (“a blue line”) and one of the vised to echo the final syllable of “Palooski”) balloons that were, it is suggested, left to be in If I Ran the Zoo suppliedin I Can Draw It Myself 8: Color of the “shoe” cited as among the means of BLUNK Operational sound made by the conveyance suggested for departurein Thinker-Upperin “The Glunk That Got Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now? Thunk,” as part of I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! See also: bright blue; dizzy blue-green and Other Stories blueberry bumplings Among the foods blurp Sound made by Mr. Brown, “like a the singer says he/she could eatin “The horn”in Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? Super-Supper March,” as part of The Cat in boastfulness Action central to the story’s the Hat Song Book developmentin “The Big Brag,” as part of blueberry bush Among the things King Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
• 15 • boat Boom-Blitz . . .
boat and boats 1: Among the things it is she’s different-er than the rest.”in Hooray for suggested one can “Think up”in Oh, the Diffendoofer Day! Thinks You Can Think! 2: Vessel asked Boober Bay Area cited as in the process of about, as possibly being one on which to like being spanned by Bunglebung Bridgein and/or eat the food treated ofin Green Eggs Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? and Ham 3: Among the objects that were, it is suggested, left to be suppliedin I Can book and books 1: Among the objects in- Draw It Myself See also: Bumble-Boat volved in the Cat’s Up-up-up gamein The Cat in the Hat 2: Among the subjects about bobcat Among Thidwick’s antler-riding which information is to be provided by the creaturesin Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose volume’s purported authorin My Book About Bodkin Van Horn Among the names it is Me See also: hook cook book; Oath Book said Mrs. McCave often wishes she had book case Place in which, the narrator given one of her “twenty-three Daves”in says, a creature called Nook Gase is present “Too Many Daves,” as part of The Sneetches in There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! and Other Stories Boola Boo Ball City to which the Doorman Bofa Creature said to be found “on the of Solla Sollew decides to relocate, and where sofa”in There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! they have, he says, “No troubles at all!”in I Boise, Idaho Place the narrator, in confu- Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew sion, did not know whether it or “the barber boom and booms 1: Sound made by Mr. shop” should be his destinationin Hunches Brown, like the noise of thunderin Mr. in Bunches Brown Can Moo! Can You? 2: Among the Bolster Creature it is said will blow “bloops words featured as part of tongue-twisting on a three-nozzled bloozer,” as part of Circus textsin Fox in Socks 3: One of the repre- McGurkus’s Parade-of-Paradesin If I Ran sentations of sounds made (together with the Circus “rap,” “rattle tattle,” and “tap”) by the action describedin “Drummers Drumming,” as Bombastic Aghast Bird the egg of which part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book 4: Sound (“And I saved it for last . . .”) was secured by it is said “You can go with” in being fired from Peter T. Hooperin Scrambled Eggs Super! a Ga-Zoomin Marvin K. Mooney Will You bonked Among the sounds made by Please Go Now! Sylvester McMonkey McBean’s “very pecu- Boom-Bah One of the sounds described as liar machine” for adding stars to belliesin having been made by the Yooks’ Butter-Up “The Sneetches,” as part of The Sneetches and Band in The Butter Battle Book Other Stories Boom Bands Musical groups of which it is Bonkers, Miss Teacher at Diffendoofer said “You’ll find the bright places” where School about whom the narrator says, they “are playing”in Oh, the Places You’ll Go! among other things: “I like Miss Bonkers best. / Our teachers are all different, / But Boom-Blitz, Eight-Nozzled, Elephant-Toted
• 16 • Boomeroo . . . box
Zook combat weapon said to have been nization to which Grandpa says he related created in response to the Yooks’ develop- “as a youth”in The Butter Battle Book ment of the Kick-a-Poo Kidin The Butter Borfin Device of Mr. Bix that it is said “just Battle Book seems to go shlump every night”in Did I Boomeroo, Bitsy Big-Boy Bomb (“filled Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? with mysterious Moo-Lacka-Moo”) said to Boston 1: Among the cities at which the have been created by both the Yooks and the Circus Show exhibited Hortonin Horton Zooks as a means of ultimate assault upon Hatches the Egg 2: City between which and each other in The Butter Battle Book Texas there is said to fly “a big bug” Gerald boom-pahs Among the musical instru- McGrew fantasizes about capturing for ments by playing on which the Whos tried to McGrew Zoo in If I Ran the Zoo make themselves heard in Horton Hears a bottle and bottled 1: Among the objects Who! the farmer tells Marco “You might catch,” boop Description of the action of playing a having forewarned him “You’ll never catch booperin “Beeper Booper,” as part of The fish” in McElligot’s Pool 2: Among the Cat in the Hat Song Book words featured as part of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks 3: Place wherein, the boop-boop booper Musician characterized narrator says, a creature called Yottle is pres- as “a fellow who can boop and beep”in entin There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! “Beeper Booper,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book Bouncing Queen Maeve Ship of “Able- bodied Seaman” Peeping Jackin The Seven booper One of the musical instruments Lady Godivas that is a central feature of the songin bow Among the things (an archery bow) “Beeper Booper,” as part of The Cat in the about which questions are askedin The Hat Song Book Cat’s Quizzer boot Among the objects the farmer tells Bowman, Blindfolded Circus McGurkus’s Marco “You might catch,” having fore- side-show archer, characterized as being “the warned him “You’ll never catch fish” in world’s sharpest sharpshooter”in If I Ran McElligot’s Pool the Circus Bopps, Sir One of Circus McGurkus’s Bowmen, Yeoman of the Foremost archer Tournament Knights in If I Ran the Circus of King Derwin’s courtin The 500 Hats of bopulous beep Characterization of the Bartholomew Cubbins sound of Grandpa’s clearing “his hoarse bows Among the “Daisy-Head” products throat,” in preparation for declaring his said to have been created commercially intention of destroying the Zooksin The when “Daisy-Head fever was gripping the Butter Battle Book nation”in Daisy-Head Mayzie Border Patrol, Zook-Watching Yook orga- box 1: Among the words featured as part
• 17 • boxing glove spears Brickel bush
of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks Bray Among the names cited as possibly 2: Container asked about, as possibly being being that of the readerin Oh, the Places one within which to like and/or eat the food You’ll Go! treated ofin Green Eggs and Ham 3: Con- Brazil Among the countries the worm, tainer said to have been produced by the Cat ridiculing the boastfulness of Mr. Rabbit and for the playing of his Fun-in-a-Box gamein Mr. Bear, says it has seen across, thus declar- The Cat in the Hat See also: fox box; Grox ing possession of an ability of sight superior Box to their hearing and sense of smellin “The boxing glove spears Weapons used for their Big Brag,” as part of Yertle the Turtle and “roust-about-joust” by Circus McGurkus’s Other Stories Tournament Knightsin If I Ran the Circus Bread Spreaders Characters who are said box socks, Gox Stockings the narrator says to “spread butters on breads”in Oh Say he wears when boxing with his Goxin One Can You Say? Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Break, Better Among the things cited boys Among the persons cited as associ- (“Waiting for . . . a Better Break”) as reasons ated with a state of being “up”in Great Day for people being at the Waiting Placein Oh, for Up the Places You’ll Go! Boy Scouts One of the organizations about breakfast Meal the narrator rejects (“Give which questions are askedin The Cat’s my egg back to the hen.”)in I Am NOT Quizzer Going to Get Up Today! Boys in the Back Room Characterization break-necking Seussian expression of of the Chief Yookeroo’s weapons-planning “neck-breaking”in Oh, the Places You’ll Go! groupin The Butter Battle Book breaks Among the words featured as part bragging Action central to the story’s of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks developmentin “The Big Brag,” as part of Breezy Trapeezing Characterization of the Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories aerial action of Circus McGurkus’s Zoom-a- BRAIN NEST, TOP-EST SECRET-EST Zoop Troupein If I Ran the Circus Sign on the entrance of the working area of Brenig Lag One of the forwarding points the Chief Yookeroo’s Bright Back Room of Peeping Jack’s letter to Lady Mitziin The Boysin The Butter Battle Book Seven Lady Godivas brass band 1: Among the things (“You’ll brick and bricks Among the words fea- only waste your money / if you hire a big tured as part of tongue-twisting textsin Fox brass band.”) the narrator says will not cause in Socks him to leave his bedin I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! 2: Musical group Marco fan- Brickel bush Shrub that provided the nar- tasizes about seeing pulled in a vehiclein rator a hiding place from the “spooky pale And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street green pants / With nobody inside ’em”in
• 18 • brickels browns, speckled
“What Was I Scared Of?,” as part of The fer pink stains during the course of the spot- Sneetches and Other Stories removal actions central to the story’s devel- opmentin The Cat in the Hat Comes Back! brickels Fruit of the Brickel bush, and 2: Among the words featured as part of which the narrator “got . . . in my tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks See britches”in “What Was I Scared Of?,” as also: Sweeping-Up-Afterwards-Brooms part of The Sneetches and Other Stories broomstick Among the means of con- Bridge, Bunglebung Structure cited as in veyance suggested for departurein Marvin the process of being built across Boober K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! Bayin Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? brother Among the words featured for use as part of a phrase or sentencein Hop Brigger-ba-Root Place from which is said on Pop to come Circus McGurkus’s Blindfolded Bowmanin If I Ran the Circus Brothers See: Fuddnuddler Brothers; Peeping Brothers; Wickersham Brothers Briggs, Pete Character described as being “a pink pig, big pig patter”in Oh Say Can Brothers Ba-zoo Characters said to have a You Say? problem with the manner of the growth of their hairin Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky bright Condition of illumination it is sug- You Are? gested one can “Think of”in Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! brown 1: Among the classifications of days citedin My Many Colored Days Bright Back Room Boys and Bright Boys 2: Among the hues about which the Cat in Alternative characterizations by the Chief the Hat says, “I can read in . . .”in I Can Yookeroo of his weapons-planning Boys Read with My Eyes Shut! in the Back Room groupin The Butter Battle Book Brown, Mr. 1: Among the characters intro- duced, to be featured as part of a phrase or bright blue Among the classifications of sentencein Hop on Pop 2: Principal char- days citedin My Many Colored Days acter of the storyin Mr. Brown Can Moo! Bright Dwight Bird-Flight Night-Sight Can You? Light Device that it is said “might be right” Brown, Mrs. Among the characters intro- as a Christmas present for a father having duced, to be featured as part of a phrase or the name Dwightin Oh Say Can You Say? sentencein Hop on Pop bright red Among the classifications of Brown Bar-ba-loots Creatures said to have days citedin My Many Colored Days formerly been seen under the Truffula Trees, brings Among the words featured as part “frisking about in their Bar-ba-loot suits”in of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks The Lorax broom 1: Among the objects used to trans- browns, speckled Description of the pills
• 19 • Bru Na Boinn bureau
of which it is said by the Pill Drill voice that viding examples of use of the letter B/bin they “. . . are what I keep / beside my bed to Dr. Seuss’s ABC help me sleep”in You’re Only Old Once! Bumble-Boat Among the means of con- Bru Na Boinn Port of call of Peeping Jack’s veyance (“go by Bumble-Boat”) suggested ship, and posting place of his letter to Lady for departurein Marvin K. Mooney Will You Mitziin The Seven Lady Godivas Please Go Now! Brutus Horse of Lady Arabellain The Bumble-Tub Club Group of creatures said Seven Lady Godivas to be “now dreaming afloat”in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book Bub Designation used by the Real Tough Hunch when addressing the narratorin Bumble-Tub Creek Waterway members of Hunches in Bunches the Bumble-Tub Club are said to “go dream- ing down” nightly (“Except for one night, bubbles Among the words cited in provid- every third or fourth week . . .”) in Dr. ing examples of use of the letter B/b in Seuss’s Sleep Book Dr. Seuss’s ABC See also: sticky greenish bubbles bumble-tubs Vessels used by the Bumble- Tub Club for “dreaming afloat” in Dr. Bud One of the Fuddnuddler Brothers in Seuss’s Sleep Book Oh Say Can You Say? bummbeling din Characterization of the budge Action that both the North-Going sound made by Circus McGurkus’s Organ- Zax and the South-Going Zax refuse to take, McOrgan-McGurkusin If I Ran the Circus upon encountering each other (“Foot to Foot. Face to Face.”)in “The Zax,” as part of The Bumm Ridge Place cited as the point at Sneetches and Other Stories which Bunglebung Bridge will cross Boober Bayin Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? Buffalo Bill Among the names it is said Mrs. McCave often wishes she had given one bump Among the words featured for use as of her “twenty-three Daves”in “Too Many part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop Daves,” as part of The Sneetches and Other BUMP Sound made by the arrival of the Stories Catin The Cat in the Hat bug and bugs 1: Among the things the boy bumplings, blueberry Among the foods narrator cites by namein The Shape of Me the singer says he/she could eatin “The and Other Stuff 2: Creatures of various Super-Supper March,” as part of The Cat in descriptions which Gerald McGrew fanta- the Hat Song Book sizes about capturing for and/or having at McGrew Zooin If I Ran the Zoo See also: Bunglebung Bridge Structure cited as in Bingle Bug; keen-shooter, mean-shooter, the process of being built across Boober Bay bean shooter bugs in Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? bumblebee Among the words cited in pro- bureau Article of furniture, belonging to
• 20 • bureau drawer butterfly
the person being addressed, about which the Butch Nickname of Mayzie McGrew’s narrator asks whether he/she ever had “the schoolmate Herman Stroodelin Daisy-Head feeling” that a creature called Nureau is Mayzie See also: Meyers, Butch present thereinin There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! butter Food product, as used on one or the other side of bread (“butter side up” or “but- bureau drawer 1: Among the means of ter side down”), central to the characteriza- conveyance (“go / by camel / in a / bureau tion of the Yooks and the Zooks and various drawer”) suggested for departurein Marvin aspects of their societiesin The Butter Battle K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! 2: Arti- Book cle of furniture to which the song relatesin “In My Bureau Drawer,” as part of The Cat in butter, peppermint cucumber sausage-paste the Hat Song Book Substance said to be used at Katroo by the bakers Snookers and Snookers to produce burger, goose-moose Among the foods the their Big Birthday Party cakein Happy singer says he/she could eatin “The Super- Birthday to You! Supper March,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book Butter, Right-Side-Up Characterization associated with the country of the Yooks and burgers Among the “Daisy-Head” prod- various aspects of its societyin The Butter ucts said to have been created commercially Battle Book when “Daisy-Head fever was gripping the nation”in Daisy-Head Mayzie Butter, Upside-Down Characterization associated with the country of the Zooks and burp Belch emitted by the “plain little turtle various aspects of its societyin The Butter named Mack,” which shakes the throne and Battle Book topples King Yertlein “Yertle the Turtle,” as part of Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories buttercups Among the things cited as asso- ciated with a state of being “up”in Great bus Among the things cited (“Waiting for Day for Up . . . a bus to come”) as reasons for people being at the Waiting Placein Oh, the Places Butter-Down Zooks Characterization of You’ll Go! See also: Happy Way Bus the Zooks by the Chief Yookerooin The Butter Battle Book Bus Driver’s Blight Among the ailments asked about by the Quiz-Docsin You’re butterfly and butterflies 1: Among the Only Old Once! creatures cited as associated with a state of being “up”in Great Day for Up 2: Among bush See: blueberry bush; Brickel bush; the things King Yertle declares have come, as Snide bush; Stickle-Bush Trees his throne is progressively elevated, within Bustard Bird that “only eats custard with his domainin “Yertle the Turtle,” as part of sauce made of mustard,” which Gerald Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories 3: Insect McGrew fantasizes about capturing for Mr. Brown can whisper like (“very soft” and McGrew Zooin If I Ran the Zoo “very high”)in Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?
• 21 • butterfly milk Candle, Bellows and
butterfly milk Substance referred to in the be made, on one’s birthday, by the Official Once-ler’s description of the Truffula Trees Katroo Happy Birthday Cake Cookers, (“The touch of their tufts / was much softer Snookers and Snookersin Happy Birthday to than silk. / And they had the sweet smell / You! See also: ape cakes; deep dish of fresh butterfly milk.”)in The Lorax rhubarb upside-down cake; grape cakes butter-side-up Characterization of part of Cake Cookers, Official Katroo Happy Birth- the action (“I’ll butter-side-up you to small day Designation of the bakers Snookers smithereens!”) by which VanItch is said to and Snookersin Happy Birthday to You! have threatened to destroy the Yooks with camel and camels 1: Among the means of his Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo in The Butter conveyance (“go / by camel / in a / bureau Battle Book drawer”) suggested for departurein Marvin Butter-Up Band Musical group said to K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! 2: Ani- have been sent (“along with the Right-Side- mal for riding which it is said one sits on a Up Song Girls”) to energize and encourage wamelin Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Grandpa after his encounter with VanItch Are? 3: Animal that pulled the One- and the Zooks’ Eight-Nozzled, Elephant- Wheeler Wubble, but “was sick and . . . Toted Boom-Blitzin The Butter Battle Book started to bubble”in I Had Trouble in Get- ting to Solla Sollew 4: Creature about which buttons 1: Among the “Daisy-Head” prod- a “True or False” question is askedin The ucts said to have been created commercially Cat’s Quizzer 5: Among the things the girl when “Daisy-Head fever was gripping the narrator cites by namein The Shape of Me nation”in Daisy-Head Mayzie 2: Among and Other Stuff 6: One of the animals it is the things cited as pertaining to an arith- said Uncle Terwilliger favors patting concur- metic calculationin “I Can Figure Figures,” rently (“poodle with his left hand, camel as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book with his right hand, . . . a frog with his left Buxbaum Among the names cited as possi- big toe”)in “My Uncle Terwilliger Likes to bly being that of the readerin Oh, the Places Pat,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book You’ll Go! Camel on the ceiling Phrase cited in pro- buzz Sound made by Mr. Brown, “like a viding examples of use of the letter C/cin bee”in Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? Dr. Seuss’s ABC cactus Plant involved in Miss Bonkers’ can and cans 1: Among the objects the undertaking to show Diffendoofer School farmer tells Marco “You might catch,” hav- students “how / To tell a cactus from a ing forewarned him “You’ll never catch cow”in Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! fish”in McElligot’s Pool 2: Objects the creature called Zans is said to be possessed cake and cakes 1: Among the objects involved in the Cat’s Up-up-up gamein The for the purpose of opening in One Fish Two Cat in the Hat 2: Food the narrator finds the Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Cat eating while in the bathtubin The Cat Candle, Bellows and Designation of a test in the Hat Comes Back! 3: Provision said to said to have been “perfected” by Golden
• 22 • canter Catfish
Years Clinic’s “World-Renowned Ear Man,” cartwheels Acrobatic stunts said to have Von Crandallin You’re Only Old Once! been performed by Miss Bonkers to celebrate canter Characterization of the narrator, as the outcome of the “special test” upon the results of which Diffendoofer School’s future ascribed by an unidentified voice, should it prove that the narrator cannot make up his depended in Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! mindin Hunches in Bunches Case, VIP Designation of the status cap and caps Headgear of various sorts accorded “top patients” at the Golden Years about which a question is asked or that is Clinic in You’re Only Old Once! cited within a tongue-twister in Oh Say Can castle Residence of King Birtramin The You Say? See also: captains’ caps; cooks’ King’s Stilts caps; cops’ caps; cupcake cook’s cap; flapped-jack cap; Helicopter Cap Castle Godiva Coventry seat of Lord Godiva in The Seven Lady Godivas Captain of the Guards Officer of King Der- win’s householdin Bartholomew and the Castle of Krupp Place from which news is Oobleck said to have been received “That the lights Captain of the King’s Own Guards Com- are all out and the drawbridge is up” in mander of the protective unit of King Der- Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book winin The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins cat and cats 1: Among the animals Ned captains’ caps Among the headgear cited complains about having in his bed in One within a tongue-twisterin Oh Say Can Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish 2: Among You Say? the things King Yertle declares have come, as his throne is progressively elevated, car 1: Among the things about which within his domain in “Yertle the Turtle,” questions are asked in The Cat’s Quizzer as part of Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories 2: Vehicle asked about, as possibly being 3: Among the words featured for use as one within which to like and/or eat the food part of a phrase or sentence in Hop on Pop treated of in Green Eggs and Ham 3: Vehi- 4: Animals about which is asked, “Did you cle possessed by one of the various kinds ever walk / with ten cats / on your head?” and descriptions of fish (“This one has a little in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish See car.”) cited in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish also: Big Cat; Changing of the Cat Guard; Blue Fish See also: Crunk-Car Day Cats; Elephant-Cat; Little Cat A . . . ; cart 1: Alternative designation of the vehi- Night Cats; Patrol Cats; young cat cle (“a broken-down wagon”) Marco actually cat drinking Among the things Mr. Brown saw being pulledin And to Think That I “can go like,” making the sound “slurp”in Saw It on Mulberry Street 2: Vehicle central Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? to Lady Dorcas J.’s Horse Truth discovery: “Don’t put the cart before the horse.”in The Catfish Among the aquatic creatures Seven Lady Godivas See also: rumble, stum- Marco speculates he might see or catchin ble carts McElligot’s Pool
• 23 • Cat in the Hat Chantz, Charlie
Cat in the Hat 1: Principal character of the cellar Place in which, the narrator says, story, who visits the unnamed narrator and creatures (characterized as “other friends”) his sister during their mother’s absence from called Bellar, Dellar, Gellar, Nellar, Tellar, homein The Cat in the Hat 2: Principal Wellar, and Zellar are presentin There’s a character of the story, who visits the Wocket in My Pocket! unnamed narrator and his sister during their cents, fifteen Sum which (together with “a mother’s absence from homein The Cat in nail / and the shell of a great-great-great- / the Hat Comes Back! 3: Narrator of the pre- grandfather snail”) it is said must be tossed sentationin I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! into the Once-ler’s “tin pail” to hear from 4: Narrator and principal character of the him “how the Lorax was lifted away”in storyin “I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today!,” as The Lorax part of I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories 5: Narrator of the story and brother Century Square Location of the Golden of its principal characterin “The Glunk Years Clinicin You’re Only Old Once! That Got Thunk,” as part of I Can Lick 30 chair 1: One of the contexts (“Over a chair Tigers Today! and Other Stories 6: Narrator feet”) of the subject coveredin The Foot Book of the storyin Daisy-Head Mayzie 7: Pre- 2: Article of furniture under which, the nar- senter of the musical selectionsin The Cat in rator says, a creature called Ghair is the Hat Song Book 8: Presenter of the book’s presentin There’s a Wocket in My pocket! contentsin The Cat’s Quizzer See also: people up there on those chairs Cat Kitchen Area where the Patrol Cats’ champ-of-all-champs Characterization of meals are prepared in The King’s Stilts Mr. Sneelock when wrestling Circus McGur- Cat’s wagon Among the things about which kus’s Grizzly-Ghastly in If I Ran the Circus questions are asked in The Cat’s Quizzer Chance, Another Among the things cited cave 1: Dwelling place of the Grinch, situ- (“Waiting for . . . Another Chance”) as rea- ated “just north of Who-ville”in How the sons for people being at the Waiting Place Grinch Stole Christmas 2: Secret location at in Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Mystic Mountain Neeka-tave of King Der- changing horses Activity central to Lady win’s magicians in Bartholomew and the Mitzi’s Horse Truth discovery: “Never Oobleck change horses in the middle of the cawnt Seussian rendering of “can’t” (de- stream.” in The Seven Lady Godivas vised to rhyme with “want”)in Happy Changing of the Cat Guard Daily cere- Birthday to You! mony of the Patrol Cats corps at King Bir- tram’s castlein The King’s Stilts ceiling 1: Surface cited (as part of a phrase) in providing examples of use of the Chantz, Charlie Name of the human figure letter C/cin Dr. Seuss’s ABC 2: Place on part of which was, it is suggested, left to be which, the narrator says, a creature called supplied “inside of his pants”in I Can Geeling isin There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! Draw It Myself
• 24 • chap,Wubble China
chap, Wubble Characterization of the tured as part of tongue-twisting textsin owner of the One-Wheeler Wubble within Fox in Socks which the narrator undertook to travelin I Chief Drum Majorette Post said to be held Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew by Miz Yookie-Ann Sue as a member of the chap in a slicker Character encountered by Butter-Up Bandin The Butter Battle Book the narrator during the course of the Mid- winter Jicker, and whose house he temporar- Chief-in-charge-of-Fish One of the cooks responsible for preparation of the Patrol ily occupied in I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew Cats’ meals in The King’s Stilts Chappie, Fix-it-Up Characterization of chieftain Individual Gerald McGrew fanta- Sylvester McMonkey McBeanin “The sizes about bringing back, together with a scraggle-foot Mulligatawny, from the Desert Sneetches,” as part of The Sneetches and Other Stories of Zind for McGrew Zoo in I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! chariot One of the vehicles Marco fanta- sizes about seeing pulledin And to Think Chief Yookeroo Leader of the Yooks in That I Saw It on Mulberry Street The Butter Battle Book charioteer Figure Marco fantasizes about chimbley Seussian rendering of “chimney” seeing drive a vehiclein And to Think That I (devised to rhyme with “nimbly”) in How Saw It on Mulberry Street the Grinch Stole Christmas checkerboard belly Among the various chimney Place up which, the narrator says, kinds and descriptions of fish (“With a a creature called Quimney is in There’s a checkerboard belly”) Marco speculates he Wocket in My Pocket! might catch in McElligot’s Pool Chimney Sweep’s Stupor Among the chew and chewing Among the words ailments asked about by the Quiz-Docsin featured as part of tongue-twisting texts You’re Only Old Once! in Fox in Socks See also: hippopotamus chimpanzees Among those it is said chewing gum singing is “good for” (for their “tongues chewing gum Among the things the girl and necks and knees”)in “Let Us All Sing,” narrator cites by namein The Shape of Me as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book and Other Stuff See also: gum China 1: Among the countries the worm, chewy Among the words featured as part ridiculing the boastfulness of Mr. Rabbit and of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks Mr. Bear, says it has seen across, thus declar- ing possession of an ability of sight superior Chicago Among the cities at which the to their hearing and sense of smellin “The Circus Show exhibited Hortonin Horton Big Brag,” as part of Yertle the Turtle and Hatches the Egg Other Stories 2: One of the countries about chick and chicks Among the words fea- which the narrator declares, indifferently,
• 25 • Chinaman circle
“Let the kids get up”in I Am NOT Going to NOT Going to Get Up Today! See also: Get Up Today! Merry Christmas Mush Chinaman One of the persons (“Who eats Christmas gifts Presents suggested for with sticks”) who is part of Marco’s fantasiz- fathers named Dwight or Jimin Oh Say Can ingin And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry You Say? Street chrysanthemums Flower involved in one Chip Chop Shop, Skipper Zipp’s Clipper of the subjects (“how to tell chrysanthemums Ship Eating place of which Skipper Zipp is / From miniature poodles”) taught by Miss proprietorin Oh Say Can You Say? Twining at Diffendoofer Schoolin Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! Chippendale Mupp Creature that is said to bite its tail “every night before shutting chuck-a-luck Among the ingredients the his eyes”in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book Glunk says are included (“Hunk of chuck-a- luck, I think”) when making Glunker Stew choc’late mush-mush Among the foods in “The Glunk That Got Thunk,” as part of I the singer says he/she could eatin “The Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories Super-Supper March,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book Chuggs Creatures (“Some keen-shooter, mean-shooter, bean-shooter bugs”) Gerald choo choo Sounds made by Mr. Brown, “like McGrew fantasizes about capturing for a train”in Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? McGrew Zooin If I Ran the Zoo chops, lamb Among the foods the singer chutes Parachutes that Marco says fish says he/she could eatin “The Super-Supper “From the world’s highest river” use to March,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book “float down beside” waterfalls “so steep / chops, wham Among the foods the singer That it’s dangerous to ride ’em”in says he/she could eatin “The Super-Supper McElligot’s Pool March,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book Cindy-Lou Who Tiny Who child that inter- chopsticks Objects used by the Chinaman rupted the Grinch at “stop number one” who is part of Marco’s fantasizingin And to during his Christmas Eve plundering of Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street Who-ville homesin How the Grinch Stole Christmas chowder, dried-fried clam Part of the charge (together with “ants’ eggs,” “bees’ cinnamon seeds Objects it is said the legs,” and Poo-a-Doo Powder) said to have creature called Glikker “spends his time been used to load the Yooks’ Kick-a-Poo juggling,” except during “the month of Kidin The Butter Battle Book SeptUmber”in On Beyond Zebra Christmas 1: Holiday central to the story circle and circles 1: Among the positions in How the Grinch Stole Christmas 2: Time, or manners with regard to which the Cat in the narrator says, “They can yelp from now the Hat says, “I can read in . . .”in I Can till . . . / but it isn’t going to help.”in I Am Read with My Eyes Shut! 2: Among the
• 26 • circus clothes
forms that were, it is suggested, left to be the dark”in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish supplied, as well as to be included as decora- Blue Fish tive elements with regard to necktiesin I Clementina, Lady One of Lord Godiva’s Can Draw It Myself daughtersin The Seven Lady Godivas circus Entertainment enterprise Morris Clinic, Golden Years Facility that is the McGurk fantasizes about creating in If I setting of the story, and which is said to have Ran the Circus as a medical specialty “Spleen Readjustment Circus Fish Aquatic creatures (“from an and Muffler Repair”in You’re Only Old Once! acrobat school”) Marco speculates he might clippers, clapping Devices that “Clip and see in McElligot’s Pool clop,” as used by Who-Bubs while gathering Circus McGurkus Designation of the en- Birthday Flower Jungle blooms in Happy tertainment enterprise Morris McGurk fanta- Birthday to You! sizes about creating in If I Ran the Circus Clipper Ship Chip Chop Shop, Skipper circus seal Animal the narrator says he is Zipp’s Eating place of which Skipper Zipp (“that’s how I feel”) on “my Orange Days” is proprietor in Oh Say Can You Say? in My Many Colored Days clipping cloppers Devices that “Nip and Circus Show Enterprise to which Horton is snip,” as used by Who-Bubs while gathering soldin Horton Hatches the Egg Birthday Flower Jungle blooms in Happy Birthday to You! City of Solla Sollew Place to which the clock and clocks 1: Among the words fea- narrator travels, “Where they never have troubles, at least very few”in I Had Trouble tured as part of tongue-twisting texts in in Getting to Solla Sollew Fox in Socks 2: Among the things Mr. Brown “can go like,” making the sounds “tick” and clam chowder, dried-fried Part of the “tock”in Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? charge (together with “ants’ eggs,” “bees’ 3: Object the narrator says he sometimes has legs,” and Poo-a-Doo Powder) said to have “the feeling” a creature called Zlock is behind been used to load the Yooks’ Kick-a-Poo in There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! Kidin The Butter Battle Book cloppers, clipping Devices that “Nip and clam stew Among the foods the singer says snip,” as used by Who-Bubs while gathering he/she could eatin “The Super-Supper Birthday Flower Jungle bloomsin Happy March,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book Birthday to You! clapping clippers Devices that “Clip and closet Place, belonging to the person being clop,” as used by Who-Bubs while gathering addressed, about which the narrator asks Birthday Flower Jungle bloomsin Happy whether he/she ever had “the feeling” that a Birthday to You! creature called Woset is present thereinin There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! Clark Name it is said will be given the creature that was “found / in the park / in clothes 1: Among the things about which
• 27 • Clotte, Miss color
information is to be provided by the vol- coach dogs Canines of King Birtram that, ume’s purported authorin My Book About when he walked on his stilts, “barked and Me 2: Among the things the girl narrator romped beside him”in The King’s Stilts cites by namein The Shape of Me and Other Coachman, Royal Driver of King Derwin’s Stuff 3: Among the words featured as part carriagein The 500 Hats of Bartholomew of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks Cubbins Clotte, Miss Nurse at Diffendoofer cock a doodle doo Sound made by Mr. Schoolin Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! Brown, “like a rooster”in Mr. Brown Can clouds Ultimate location from which King Moo! Can You? Yertle declares himself to be the monarch Collapsible Frink Creature said to have (“There’s nothing, no, NOTHING, that’s “collapsed in a heap”in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep higher than me!”)in “Yertle the Turtle,” as Book part of Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories collars, kangaroo What the Cat in the Hat clover Plant on which Horton places the tells the young cat he might learn “how to “dust speck” that he retrieves; also the make”in I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! growth covering a vast area (“a hundred miles wide”) where “Horton’s clover” is sub- collecting Among the subjects about which sequently depositedin Horton Hears a Who! information is to be provided by the volume’s purported authorin My Book About Me Clover One of Lady Mitzi’s aquatic horsesin The Seven Lady Godivas collection, autograph Unit of the book where specified entries are to be secured by clown One of the particularities (“clown the volume’s purported author in My Book feet”) of the subject covered in The Foot Book About Me Club, Bumble-Tub Group of creatures said Colliding-Collusions Circus McGurkus’s to be “now dreaming afloat” in Dr. Seuss’s “speedsters” that it is said “Race round in Sleep Book swift cars called Abrasion-Contusions”in Club, Harvard Establishment referred to If I Ran the Circus as where the hunters intended Thidwick’s Colonel One of several Circus McGurkus mounted head to be located, and where titles accorded Mr. Sneelock in If I Ran the his “old horns” are ultimately situated in Circus Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose color and colors 1: Aspect central to Lady Club, Hinkle-Horn Honking Group of Gussie’s Horse Truth discovery: “That is a musicians at Mercedd that it is said to have horse of another color!”in The Seven Lady “honked themselves out”in Dr. Seuss’s Godivas 2: Designations by which days are Sleep Book classifiedin My Many Colored Days 3: Clubs, Mustard-Off Organizations that it Designations by which the Pill Drill voice is said built the Mustard-Off Pools at identifies certain medicines prescribed at the Katrooin Happy Birthday to You! Golden Years Clinicin You’re Only Old
• 28 • colored, different corn-on-the-cobsk
Once! See also: favorite color; pickle color in “I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today!,” as part of I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories colored, different Characterization of the variety of days citedin My Many Colored Cook, Royal Member of King Derwin’s Days palace staff found to be trapped in the royal kitchen, “stuck to three stew pots, a tea cup Columbus Historic figure the narrator and a cat” by the oobleckin Bartholomew urges his “very young friend” to emulate, as and the Oobleck an explorer, in order to “Discover new let- ters” of the alphabetin On Beyond Zebra cook book, hook Characterization of the volume that is said to be consulted by a combat armament Subject central to the Nookin One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish storyin The Butter Battle Book Cooker-mobile Field-kitchen vehicle a comes Among the words featured as part “wonderful meal” from which, as part of of tongue-twisting texts in Fox in Socks Gerald McGrew’s fantasizing, it is said will coax the creature called Natch from his commas Punctuation marks cited as being among the “stuff” Circus McGurkus’s Jug- cave in If I Ran the Zoo gling Jott can successfully handlein If I Cookers, Official Katroo Happy Birthday Ran the Circus Cake Designation of the bakers Snookers and Snookersin Happy Birthday to You! completion date Information to be entered by the volume’s purported author, on the cooks’ caps Among the headgear cited lines provided (“I finished writing it . . .”) within a tongue-twisterin Oh Say Can in My Book About Me You Say? Computerized Sniffer, Diet-Devising Cooper, Soapy Individual whose name is Characterization of the Golden Years Clinic’s featured in the title of the product Soapy Wuff-Whifferin You’re Only Old Once! Cooper’s Super Soup-Off-Hoops Soak Suds, as recommended “to wash soup off a Connecticut One of the states about which hoop”in Oh Say Can You Say? the narrator declares, indifferently, “Let the kids get up”in I Am NOT Going to Get Up cops’ caps Among the headgear cited Today! within a tongue-twister in Oh Say Can You Say? conservation Subject (conservation of natu- cork Among the things Mr. Brown “can go ral resources) central to the story in The Lorax like,” making the sound “pop” in Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? Constantinople One of the examples of “big words” citedin Hop on Pop corn-on-the-cobsk Seussian rendering of “corn on the cob” (devised to rhyme with contention 1: Action central to the story’s “Tobsk,” “Nobsk,” and “Obsk,” as well as developmentin The Butter Battle Book with other adjacent Seussian “sk” word- 2: Subject central to the story’s development endings)in If I Ran the Zoo
• 29 • Count, Audio . . . Creek, Bumble-Tub
Count, Audio-Telly-o-Tally-o Means cited School students “how / To tell a cactus from as being that of determining the number of a cow”in Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! sleepersin Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book 6: Among the animals said to be “getting stuck” to other animals by the oobleckin Count, Who’s-Asleep Tally of sleepers Bartholomew and the Oobleck 7: Among the (also called Who’s-Asleep-Score), as provided things Mr. Brown “can go like,” making the by the narrator in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book sound “moo”in Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can counting room Area within King Derwin’s You? See also: partly a cow palace where Bartholomew Cubbins receives cracks Among the words featured as part “five hundred pieces of gold in a bag” for of a tongue-twisting sentencein Oh Say Can “the most beautiful hat that had ever been You Say? seen in the Kingdom of Didd”in The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins cranberries Produce Bartholomew Cubbins “carried a basket of . . . to sell at the market” country of residence Among the things in The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins about which information is to be provided by the volume’s purported authorin My Crandalls, Curious Sleepwalkers described Book About Me as going out nightly “with assorted-sized candles” on their headsin Dr. Seuss’s County of Keck Place from which the news Sleep Book of the yawning bug “By the name of Van Vleck” was receivedin Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book Cranes, South-West-Facing Birds (about which it is said that one, “when she’s guard- Coventry Place that is the setting of the ing her nest, / Will always stand facing pre- storyin The Seven Lady Godivas cisely South West”) eggs of which were Scrambled Coventry, Earl of all Formal title of Lord secured by Peter T. Hooper in Eggs Super! Godivain The Seven Lady Godivas craving 1: Emotion of King Yertle, with cow and cows 1: Among the animals Ned respect to the elevation of his throne, central complains about having in his bedin One to the story’s developmentin “Yertle the Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish 2: Among Turtle,” as part of Yertle the Turtle and Other the means of conveyance (“go / by cow”) Stories 2: Emotion of Gertrude McFuzz, suggested for departurein Marvin K. Mooney with respect to the nature of her tail, central Will You Please Go Now! 3: Among the things to the story’s developmentin “Gertrude King Yertle declares have come, as his throne McFuzz,” as part of Yertle the Turtle and Other is progressively elevated, within his domain Stories in “Yertle the Turtle,” as part of Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories 4: Animal about Creek, Bumble-Tub Waterway members which is asked, “Did you ever milk / this of the Bumble-Tub Club are said to “go kind of cow?”in One Fish Two Fish Red dreaming down” nightly (“Except for one Fish Blue Fish 5: Animal involved in Miss night, every third or fourth week . . .”)in Bonkers’ undertaking to show Diffendoofer Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book
• 30 • croak, cruffulous cupboards
croak, cruffulous Description of the crunchy hunchy punches Blows the narra- Lorax’s contorted manner of speaking, said tor says were thrown when “things got really to have been caused by the Once-ler’s “mak- out of hand” and “Wild hunches in big ing such smogulous smoke”in The Lorax bunches / were scrapping all around me”in Hunches in Bunches crocodile pants Among the things the Cat in the Hat says, “You can read about . . .”in Crunk-Car Among the means of con- I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! veyance (“You can go / in a Crunk-Car / if you wish.”) suggested for departurein crow and crows 1: Among the words fea- Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! tured as part of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks 2: Among the creatures about “Cry a Pint” Title of a songin The Cat in which questions are askedin The Cat’s the Hat Song Book Quizzer 3: Old birds said to be the only ones that currently sing “At the far end of Cubbins, Bartholomew 1: Page boy of town”in The Lorax King Derwin and the principal character of the storyin Bartholomew and the Oobleck Crow, Slow Joe Creature that relates to a 2: Principal character of the storyin segment of the presentation of tongue- The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins twisting textsin Fox in Socks Cuckoo, Mt. Strookoo Bird on Mt. Strookoo cruffulous croak Description of the Lorax’s an egg of which was secured by Ali for Peter contorted manner of speaking, said to have T. Hooperin Scrambled Eggs Super! been caused by the Once-ler’s “making such smogulous smoke”in The Lorax cucumber, seeds of Objects it is said the creature called Glikker juggles during “the crumbs Tiny particles (“even too small for month of SeptUmber / When cinnamon seeds a mouse”) constituting all the food left aren’t around in great number”in On behind by the Grinch during his Christmas Beyond Zebra Eve plundering of Who-ville homesin How the Grinch Stole Christmas Cuin Selinn One of the forwarding points of Peeping Jack’s letter to Lady Mitziin The crummies Ailment said by the Lorax to Seven Lady Godivas be suffered by the creatures called Brown Bar-ba-lootsin The Lorax Culpepper Springs Location of Stilt- Walkers’ Hallin Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book Crumpit, Mt. Place to the top of which the Grinch went with his plunder upon comple- cup 1: Among the objects involved in the tion of his Christmas Eve descent upon Cat’s Up-up-up gamein The Cat in the Hat Who-villein How the Grinch Stole Christmas 2: Among the words featured for use as part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop Crumple-horn, Web-footed, Green-bearded Schlottz Creature the tail of which is said cupboards Places wherein, the narrator to be “entailed with un-solvable knots”in says, creatures called Nupboards are present Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? in There’s a Wocket in My Pocket!
• 31 • cupcake cooks’ cap date of completion
cupcake cooks’ cap Among the headgear 2: Flower central to the story’s development cited within a tongue-twisterin Oh Say Can in Daisy-Head Mayzie You Say? Daisy-Head Mayzie Characterization and Curious Crandalls Sleepwalkers described designation of the principal character of the as going out nightly “with assorted-sized storyin Daisy-Head Mayzie candles” on their heads in Dr. Seuss’s Dake, Dr. Physician-uncle (also referred to Sleep Book as “Uncle Dake” and “Uncle Doctor”) con- curly hair Feature cited with regard to the sulted by Gertrude McFuzz when seeking “some kind of a pill that will make my tail first tiger the Cat in the Hat dismisses from contentionin “I Can Lick 30 Tigers grow” in “Gertrude McFuzz,” as part of Today!,” as part of I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories and Other Stories dancing 1: Activity central to the subject of the songin “My Uncle Terwilliger Waltzes curly nose, long Among the various kinds with Bears,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song and descriptions of fish (“With a long curly Book 2: Activity it is said Miss Bonkers at nose”) Marco speculates he might catchin Diffendoofer School “even teaches frogs”in McElligot’s Pool Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! curtain Place wherein, the narrator says, he Daniel Dog (characterized by Grandpa as sometimes feels “quite certain” a creature “our country’s first gun-toting spaniel”) said called Jertain is present in There’s a Wocket to have been trained to carry the Yooks’ in My Pocket! Kick-a-Poo Kidin The Butter Battle Book customer Shoe-store patron with whose Dapples One of Lady Mitzi’s aquatic shoe Mr. McGrew departed when called to horsesin The Seven Lady Godivas Mayzie McGrew’s schoolin Daisy-Head Mayzie Daredevil, Great One of several Circus McGurkus titles accorded Mr. Sneelockin Dad 1: Among the words featured for use If I Ran the Circus as part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on dark Condition of illumination asked Pop 2: Designation of Marco’s father in about, as possibly being one within which And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street to like and/or eat the food treated ofin 3: Form of the Once-ler’s belligerently Green Eggs and Ham addressing the Loraxin The Lorax See also: father; Father of . . . darked Seussian rendering of “darkened” (devised to rhyme with “marked”)in Oh, Da-Dake Place where, it is suggested, one the Places You’ll Go! might think of spending “a day”in Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! date of completion Information to be entered by the volume’s purported author, daisy 1: Among the things about which on the lines provided (“I finished writing it questions are askedin The Cat’s Quizzer . . .”)in My Book About Me
• 32 • Dave Derwin, King
Dave Given name of all of Mrs. McCave’s December 31, 1105 New Year’s Eve ob- twenty-three sonsin “Too Many Daves,” as served by Lady Hedwig prior to her Horse part of The Sneetches and Other Stories Truth discoveryin The Seven Lady Godivas David Donald Doo dreamed a dozen decision-making Action and/or inaction doughnuts and a duck-dog, too. Sentence central to the story’s developmentin cited in providing examples of use of the let- Hunches in Bunches ter D/din Dr. Seuss’s ABC deep dish rhubarb upside-down cake Dawf Bird the egg of which was secured Among the foods the singer says he/she by Peter T. Hooper through having “to pry could eatin “The Super-Supper March,” as all of one mountain top off”in Scrambled part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book Eggs Super! deer Creatures having elaborate (and in Dawkins, Sir One of Circus McGurkus’s some species interconnected) horns, which Tournament Knightsin If I Ran the Circus Gerald McGrew fantasizes about capturing for McGrew Zooin If I Ran the Zoo See day 1: Among the things it is suggested also: Through-Horns-Jumping-Deer one “can think about”in Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! 2: Among the words featured Dellar Among the creatures said to be for use as part of a phrase or sentencein found “in the cellar”in There’s a Wocket in Hop on Pop See also: Diffendoofer Day My Pocket! Day Cats One of the two segments of the demo-catic Seussian rendering of “demo- Patrol Cats corps at the Kingdom of Binnin cratic”in “King Looie Katz,” as part of I The King’s Stilts Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories Day of all Days Among the characteriza- departure 1: Action the character being tions of one’s birthday, both as is said to be addressed is repeatedly asked to takein proclaimed by “the voice of the horn” from Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! Mt. Zorn and as declared by the Birthday 2: Action that is the subject of the songin Bird of Katrooin Happy Birthday to You! “Party Parting,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book Day-of-the-Best-of-the-Best Among the characterizations of one’s birthday, as de- DERMOGLYMICS Indication on one of clared by the Birthday Bird of Katrooin the several directional signs at the Golden Happy Birthday to You! Years Clinicin You’re Only Old Once! Dayton, Ohio Among the cities at which Derring’s Herrings Alternative designa- the Circus Show exhibited Hortonin Hor- tion of Dr. Derring’s Singing, Spelling Her- ton Hatches the Egg ringsin Happy Birthday to You! de Breeze, Professor Character said to Derwin, King 1: Monarch of the Kingdom have been long engaged in “trying to teach of Diddin Bartholomew and the Oobleck Irish ducks how to read Jivvanese”in Did I 2: Monarch of the Kingdom of Diddin Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
• 33 • Desert of Drize Diner, Finney’s
Desert of Drize Place where the story’s Diet-Devising Computerized Sniffer introducer is said to have met the old man Characterization of the Golden Years Clinic’s who sang to him the song constituting the Wuff-Whifferin You’re Only Old Once! overall narrativein Did I Ever Tell You How Diffendoofer Day Holiday declared by Mr. Lucky You Are? Lowe to celebrate his students’ triumph Desert of Zind Place from “the blistering when taking the “special test” upon the sands” of which Gerald McGrew fantasizes results of which their school’s future about capturing a scraggle-foot Mulliga- dependedin Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! tawny for McGrew Zoo in If I Ran the Zoo Diffendoofer School Institution at dester Word from the first line (“High did- Dinkerville attended by the narrator and his dle dester”) of Lady Gussie’s songin The friends in Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! Seven Lady Godivas Diffendoofer Song”, “The Alma mater of dibble 1: Designation of one of the sounds Diffendoofer School, sung “triumphantly” at the close of the Diffendoofer Day made (together with “dopp”) by Mr. Brown, “like the rain”in Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can celebration in Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! You? 2: Designation of one of the sounds different colored Characterization of the made (together with “dobble,” “drip,” variety of days citedin My Many Colored “drop,” and “plop”) by rainfallin “Rainy Days Day in Utica, N.Y.,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book different-er Seussian expression of “more different”in Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! Dick One of the seven Peeping Brothers Dike Trees Arboreal growth the “heavy, in The Seven Lady Godivas knotted roots” of which protect the Kingdom Didd, Kingdom of 1: Setting of the story of Binn from inundation by the seain in Bartholomew and the Oobleck 2: Setting of The King’s Stilts the story in The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Diller, Dr. One of the Golden Years Clinic Cubbins physicians about whom it is predicted “all diddle Word from the first (“High diddle . . . will prescribe a prescription for you” in dester”) and second (“Ho, diddle dum”) lines You’re Only Old Once! of Lady Gussie’s song in The Seven Lady Dill-ma-dilts, Mt. Land mass suggested Godivas as one appropriate for scalingin Great Day Diddle-dee-Dill One of the sounds described for Up as having been made by the Yooks’ Butter- din, bummbeling Characterization of the Up Bandin The Butter Battle Book sound made by Circus McGurkus’s Organ- McOrgan-McGurkusin If I Ran the Circus diddle-dee-dots Decorative elements that were, it is suggested, left to be supplied on Diner, Finney’s Eating place commented necktiesin I Can Draw It Myself uponin Oh Say Can You Say?
• 34 • Ding Dang Doo . . . Doctor, Uncle
Ding Dang Doo, Pineapple Butterscotch discrimination Social bias central to the One of the confections about the offering of story’s developmentin “The Sneetches,” as which the narrator declares, “You won’t get part of The Sneetches and Other Stories me up”in I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! dish See: deep dish rhubarb upside-down dingus contraption Description of the cake; Ish wish dish; milk on a dish attachment said to be used when Circus McGurkus’s Great Daredevil Sneelock disn’t Seussian rendering of “doesn’t” “comes pulled through the air by three Soo- (devised to rhyme with “Isn’t”) in Happy brian Snipe”in If I Ran the Circus Birthday to You! Dinkerville Place of residence of the narra- District of Dofft Place from which news is tor and setting of the storyin Hooray for said to have come “That two Offt are asleep Diffendoofer Day! and they’re sleeping aloft”in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book Dinkzoober and Dinkzott Streets at the intersection of which Diffendoofer School is Diver Getz and Diver Gitz Creatures at locatedin Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! Katroo that it is said dive “in their undersea Dinn Dinosaur the bones of which recur- kits” to capture Time-Telling Fish in Happy rently, it is said, “fall out / of his left front Birthday to You! shin”in Oh Say Can You Say? Dixie 1: Musical selection Morris McGurk dinner Meal central to a “Food Quiz” ques- fantasizes about playing on Circus Mc- tion askedin The Cat’s Quizzer Gurkus’s Organ-McOrgan-McGurkus in If I Ran the Circus 2: Song cited (together with dinosaur 1: Animal named Dinn in Oh Swanee River) as snored by the Snore-a-Snort Say Can You Say? 2: Among the creatures Bandin Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book about which questions are askedin The Cat’s Quizzer dizzy blue-green Color Lady Gussie painted her horsein The Seven Lady Godivas Dinty One of the Fuddnuddler Brothers in Oh Say Can You Say? dobble Designation of one of the sounds made (together with “dibble,” “drip,” “drop,” Dinwoodie One of the Fuddnuddler Brothersin Oh Say Can You Say? and “plop”) by rainfall in “Rainy Day in Utica, N.Y.,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Dip, Marshmallow One of the confections Song Book about the offering of which the narrator declares, “You won’t get me up”in I Am Dobble, Miss Teacher at Diffendoofer NOT Going to Get Up Today! School whose subject of instruction is “listening”in Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! Dippo-no-Dungus Place from which the Bippo-no-Bungus are, as part of Gerald Doctor, Uncle One of the alternative des- McGrew’s fantasizing, said to be less good ignations (together with “Uncle Dake”) of than those from Hippo-no-Hungusin If I Dr. Dakein “Gertrude McFuzz,” as part Ran the Zoo of Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
• 35 • Dr. dot
Dr. See: Ballew, Dr.; Blinn, Dr.; Dake, Dr.; March,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Diller, Dr.; Drew, Dr.; Eisenbart, Dr.; Fitz- Book See also: doughnuts gerald, Dr.; Fitzpatrick, Dr.; Fitzsimmons, Doo, David Donald Name cited (as part of Dr.; Fonz, Dr.; Ginns, Dr.; McGrew, Dr.; a sentence) in providing examples of use of McGuire, Dr.; McPherson, Dr.; Pollen, Dr.; the letter D/din Dr. Seuss’s ABC Schmidt, Dr.; Sinatra, Dr.; Smoot, Dr.; Snell, Dr. Sam; Spreckles, Dr.; Sylvester, Dr.; Doo, Pineapple Butterscotch Ding Dang Timpkins, Dr.; Tompkins, Dr.; Van Ness, One of the confections about the offering of Dr.; Von Eiffel, Dr. which the narrator declares, “You won’t get me up”in I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! Dr. Derring’s Singing, Spelling Herrings Choral fish that during a Big Birthday Party Doodle dee doodle dee doodle dee doo at Katroo both sing and, through organizing Expression of the action of producing doo- themselves in appropriate formation, spell dlesin I Can Draw It Myself out the greeting being conveyed in Happy doodles Among the forms that were, it is Birthday to You! suggested, left to be suppliedin I Can Draw Dofft, District of Place from which news is It Myself said to have come “That two Offt are asleep Dooklas Monetary unit of Ali Sard’s “pif- and they’re sleeping aloft” in Dr. Seuss’s fulous pay”in Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky Sleep Book You Are? dog and dogs 1: Among the animals Ned door See: barn door; hand on a door complains about having in his bedin One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish 2: Among Doorman of Solla Sollew Official respon- the things (“You can try with dogs and roost- sible for the city’s entrywayin I Had Trouble ers.”) the narrator says will not cause him to in Getting to Solla Sollew leave his bed in I Am NOT Going to Get Up doping Characterization, together with Today! See also: coach dogs; duck-dog “moping,” of the attitude of the Plain-Belly Dog Fish Among the aquatic creatures Sneetches at the time of the arrival of Marco speculates he might seein Sylvester McMonkey McBeanin “The McElligot’s Pool Sneetches,” as part of The Sneetches and Other Stories dollars What the Cat in the Hat tells the young cat he “might learn / a way to earn / dopp Designation of one of the sounds a few” ofin I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! made (together with “dibble”) by Mr. Brown, “like the rain”in Mr. Brown Can Moo! donter Characterization of the narrator, as Can You? ascribed by an unidentified voice, should it prove that the narrator does not make up his Dorcas J., Lady One of Lord Godiva’s mindin Hunches in Bunches daughtersin The Seven Lady Godivas donuts Among the foods the singer says dot and dots 1: Punctuation mark (“one he/she could eatin “The Super-Supper dot”) cited as being among the “stuff” Circus
• 36 • Doubt-trout dried-fried . . .
McGurkus’s Juggling Jott can successfully of Krupp quoted as saying, “My drawbridge handlein If I Ran the Circus 2: Among the is drawn and it’s going to stay drawn / ’Til things (“blue dots”) about which questions the milkman delivers the milk, about are askedin The Cat’s Quizzer 3: Black dawn.”in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book markings “lots of” which are said to be pres- drawing 1: Ability that is to be demon- ent on a Klotzin Oh Say Can You Say? See strated by the volume’s purported author also: blue dots; diddle-dee-dots in My Book About Me 2: Subject of the Doubt-trout Fish sought on Roover River bookin I Can Draw It Myself by the narratorin “What Was I Scared drawn-out Among the various kinds and Of?,” as part of The Sneetches and Other descriptions of fish (“long, long drawn-out”) Stories Marco speculates he might catchin doughnut holes Among the things about McElligot’s Pool which “True or False” questions are dreamed Action cited (as part of a sen- askedin The Cat’s Quizzer tence) in providing examples of use of the doughnuts 1: Food cited (as part of a sen- letter D/din Dr. Seuss’s ABC tence) in providing examples of use of the dreaming Action cited as associated with letter D/din Dr. Seuss’s ABC 2: What the moose and geese, and of which it is said, Cat in the Hat tells the young cat he might, if “. . . it isn’t too good when a moose and a open-eyed, learn “how to make”in I Can goose / Start dreaming they’re drinking Read with My Eyes Shut! See also: donuts the other one’s juice.”in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep down 1: One of the contexts (“Down feet”) Book of the subject coveredin The Foot Book 2: dress Among the objects (“Mother’s white What the narrator says “I feel” (“slow / and dress”) between which pink stains are trans- low, / low / down”) on days that “feel sort ferred during the course of the spot-removal of Brown”in My Many Colored Days See actions central to the story’s development also: Upside-Down Butter in The Cat in the Hat Comes Back! Down Hunch Creature-represented Drew, Dr. One of the Golden Years Clinic impulse that tells the narrator that in follow- physicians about whom it is predicted “all ing the Up Hunch, “You have made a big . . . will prescribe a prescription for you”in mistake!”in Hunches in Bunches You’re Only Old Once! dozen Quantity cited (as part of a sentence) Drexel One of the seven Peeping in providing examples of use of the letter Brothersin The Seven Lady Godivas D/din Dr. Seuss’s ABC dried-fried clam chowder Part of the Drake, North Dakota Among the places at charge (together with “ants’ eggs,” “bees’ which the Circus Show exhibited Hortonin legs,” and Poo-a-Doo Powder) said to have Horton Hatches the Egg been used to load the Yooks’ Kick-a-Poo drawbridge draw-er Official at the Castle Kidin The Butter Battle Book
• 37 • Drill, Pill duck
Drill, Pill Designation of the process of drop Designation of one of the sounds providing instructions for taking medicines made (together with “dibble,” “dobble,” prescribed at the Golden Years Clinicin “drip,” and “plop”) by rainfallin “Rainy You’re Only Old Once! Day in Utica, N.Y.,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book drinking Action central to Lady Arabella’s Horse Truth discovery: “You can lead a horse Drum Major One of several Circus to water, but you can’t make him drink.”in McGurkus titles accorded Mr. Sneelockin The Seven Lady Godivas See also: cat drinking If I Ran the Circus drink pink ink Action cited as being one Drum Majorette, Chief Post said to be of the things the creature called Yink likes to held by Miz Yookie-Ann Sue as a member of doin One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish the Butter-Up Bandin The Butter Battle Book drinks Among the “Daisy-Head” products “Drummers Drumming” Title of a said to have been created commercially roundin The Cat in the Hat Song Book when “Daisy-Head fever was gripping the drumming Action central to the subject of nation”in Daisy-Head Mayzie the songin “Drummers Drumming,” as drip Designation of one of the sounds part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book made (together with “dibble,” “dobble,” Drum-Tummied Snumm Circus McGurkus “drop,” and “plop”) by rainfallin “Rainy creature it is said “can drum any tune / That Day in Utica, N.Y.,” as part of The Cat in the you might care to hum”in If I Ran the Circus Hat Song Book Drum-Tummy Designation of the stomach Drize, Desert of Place where the story’s area on which Circus McGurkus’s Drum- introducer is said to have met the old man Tummied Snumm is said to performin If I who sang to him the song constituting the Ran the Circus overall narrativein Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? dry One of the conditions (“Dry foot”) of the subject coveredin The Foot Book Droon, Lord Court official of the Kingdom of Binn who steals King Birtram’s stiltsin duck and ducks 1: Among the words fea- The King’s Stilts tured as part of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks 2: Animal that it is said Miss Droonish trick Characterization by Eric of Bonkers of Diffendoofer School has “taught Lord Droon’s act of falsely saying Eric had . . . to sing”in Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! measles and of causing him, accordingly, to 3: Among the animals said to be “getting be “locked up in an old deserted house on stuck” to other animals by the oobleckin the edge of the town”in The King’s Stilts Bartholomew and the Oobleck 4: Among the droopy-droop feather Single adornment creatures about which questions are asked originally constituting Gertrude McFuzz’s in The Cat’s Quizzer 5: Animals, one blue tailin “Gertrude McFuzz,” as part of Yertle and one black, that exchange “quack-quacks” the Turtle and Other Stories in Oh Say Can You Say? 6: Animals in-
• 38 • duck-dog East Beast
volved in part of the egg-quest missions of Dutter and Dutter “The world’s finest cake Peter T. Hooperin Scrambled Eggs Super! slicers,” who at Katroo “stand ready to cut” See also: Irish ducks the Big Birthday Party cakein Happy Birth- day to You! duck-dog Creature cited (as part of a sen- tence) in providing examples of use of the Dwight Name which, if it is “your daddy’s,” letter D/din Dr. Seuss’s ABC the appropriate Christmas present to be associated with it might, it is said, be a Bright Duckie Colloquial form of address used as part of the lyrics of the old man’s songin Dwight Bird-Flight Night-Sight Light in Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? Oh Say Can You Say? Dud One of the Fuddnuddler Brothersin eaches Seussian rendering of “each” (de- Oh Say Can You Say? vised to rhyme with “beaches”)in “The Sneetches,” as part of The Sneetches and duddled Among the words featured as Other Stories part of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks eagle Among the creatures about which duffle One of the conjuring words from the questions are askedin The Cat’s Quizzer magicians’ incantation beginning ”Shuffle, See also: black-bottomed eagle duffle, muzzle, muff”in Bartholomew and the Oobleck ear and ears 1: Among the words cited in dum Word from the second line (“Ho, providing examples of use of the letter diddle dum”) of Lady Gussie’s songin E/e in Dr. Seuss’s ABC 2: Among the The Seven Lady Godivas things cited as associated with a state of being “up”in Great Day for Up 3: Parts dumplings Among the foods the singer of his body about which Mr. Rabbit declares, says he/she could eat in “The Super-Supper “No ears in the world can hear further than March,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book mine!”in “The Big Brag,” as part of Yertle dungeon Area within King Derwin’s the Turtle and Other Stories palace where Bartholomew Cubbins was Earl of all Coventry Formal title of Lord sent to be executed in The 500 Hats of Godivain The Seven Lady Godivas Bartholomew Cubbins Dungus Abbreviated form of reference, as Ear Man, World-Renowned Characteriza- tion of the Golden Years Clinic’s practitioner expressed by Gerald McGrew, to the place called Dippo-no-Dungusin If I Ran the Zoo Von Crandall in You’re Only Old Once! dust, speck of Particle Horton encounters earn Among the things the Cat in the Hat “blowing past through the air” and “that is tells the young cat he, if open-eyed, “might able to yell”in Horton Hears a Who! learn” (“a way to earn / a few dollars”)in I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! dusty musty throats Among the things it is said singing is “good for”in “Let Us All East Beast One of the creatures (together Sing,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book with the West Beast) on “an island hard to
• 39 • East-est elephant
reach,” each of which it is said “thinks he’s story’s developmentin Horton Hatches the the best beast”in Oh Say Can You Say? Egg 4: Food central to the story and about which Peter T. Hooper declares, “And so I East-est Extreme easterly area of the decided that, just for a change, / I’d scram- world, from even east of which creatures ble a new kind of egg on the range.”in have it is said been sought for the Official Scrambled Eggs Super! 5: One of the foods Katroo Birthday Pet Reservationin Happy (“green eggs”) questions about the liking Birthday to You! and/or eating of are central to the book’s East Ounce Place at one end of the trans- dialoguein Green Eggs and Ham 6: What portation service said to be provided by the the narrator declines when rejecting his creatures called High Gargel-orumin On breakfastin I Am NOT Going to Get Up Beyond Zebra Today! See also: ants’ eggs; hummingbird eggs easy Among the words featured as part of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks egg in a frying pan Among the things Mr. Brown “can go like,” making the sound “siz- eating 1: Action questions about which zle”in Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? (eating and/or liking), with respect to the food treated of, are central to the book’s dia- Egypt Among the countries the worm, loguein Green Eggs and Ham 2: Among ridiculing the boastfulness of Mr. Rabbit and the subjects about which information is to be Mr. Bear, says it has seen across, thus declar- provided by the volume’s purported author ing possession of an ability of sight superior in My Book About Me 3: Subject of the to their hearing and sense of smellin “The songin “The Super-Supper March,” as part Big Brag,” as part of Yertle the Turtle and of The Cat in the Hat Song Book See also: Other Stories pants-eating-plants Ei Exclamation used by Morris McGurk Ed Among the characters introduced, to be while describing the achievements of Circus featured as part of a phrase or sentencein McGurkus in If I Ran the Circus Hop on Pop Eiffelberg Tower Edifice that the Mayor eek Sound made by Mr. Brown, “like a and Jo-Jo ascend at the time of Who-ville’s squeaky shoe”in Mr. Brown Can Moo! “darkest hour” in Horton Hears a Who! Can You? Eight-Nozzled, Elephant-Toted Boom-Blitz eel Aquatic creature (“And, oddly enough, Zook combat weapon said to have been cre- / With a head on both ends”) Marco specu- ated in response to the Yooks’ development lates he might catchin McElligot’s Pool of the Kick-a-Poo Kid in The Butter Battle Book egg and eggs 1: Among the things about Eisenbart, Dr. Physician called by Principal which questions are asked in The Cat’s Quizzer 2: Among the words cited in pro- Grumm to attend Mayzie McGrew in viding examples of use of the letter E/ein Daisy-Head Mayzie Dr. Seuss’s ABC 3: Object central to the elephant and elephants 1: Among the
• 40 • Elephant-Bird Experiment, Great
creatures (a “green elephant / walking England Among the countries the worm, down stairs”) that were, it is suggested, ridiculing the boastfulness of Mr. Rabbit and left to be suppliedin I Can Draw It Myself Mr. Bear, says it has seen across, thus declar- 2: Among the words cited in providing ing possession of an ability of sight superior examples of use of the letter E/ein Dr. to their hearing and sense of smellin “The Seuss’s ABC 3: Animal said to be needed Big Brag,” as part of Yertle the Turtle and when hunting the creature called Sneedle Other Stories in On Beyond Zebra 4: Animal named Hor- Enormous Enormance Characterization of ton, the principal character of the storyin Circus McGurkus’s act featuring “pots full Horton Hatches the Egg 5: Animal named of lots of big Stickle-Bush Trees” and a man Horton, the principal character of the story (Mr. Sneelock) wearing Roller-Skate-Skisin in Horton Hears a Who! 6: One of the ani- If I Ran the Circus mals Marco fantasizes about seeing pull a vehiclein And to Think That I Saw It on Mul- Eric Page boy of King Birtram and the hero berry Street 7: Part of the phrase “Ellie’s of the storyin The King’s Stilts Elegant Elephant,” central to a “Tongue Erie, Lake Body of water understood by Quizzer” in The Cat’s Quizzer 8: Among the Lorax to be equally polluted as “the the creatures about which questions are pond where the Humming-Fish hummed” askedin The Cat’s Quizzer 9: Among the originally in a line (“I hear things are just as things the boy narrator cites by name in bad up in Lake Erie.”) subsequently The Shape of Me and Other Stuff 10: Creature removed from The Lorax central to the question, “How much water / can fifty-five elephants drink?”in Oh, the Eskimo Fish Among the aquatic creatures Thinks You Can Think! Marco speculates he might see or catchin McElligot’s Pool Elephant-Bird Creature resulting from Ethelbert, Uncle Donor of one of the Horton’s incubation of Mayzie’s egg in Horton Hatches the Egg Godiva horses in The Seven Lady Godivas everyone Designation of all those, collec- Elephant-Cat Among the creatures Gerald tively, cited as associated with a state of McGrew fantasizes about having at McGrew being “up”in Great Day for Up Zooin If I Ran the Zoo every-which-where Designation of the elevators Among the things cited as asso- direction in which Van Vleck’s yawning is ciated with a state of being “up” in Great said to be “still spreading”in Dr. Seuss’s Day for Up Sleep Book eleventeen Seussian number used within executioner Headsman of King Derwin’s the lyrics of the songin “I Can Figure Fig- courtin The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins ures,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book Experiment, Great Characterization of Lady Ellie’s Elegant Elephant Phrase central to a Mitzi’s pursuit of “the problems of eques- “Tongue Quizzer”in The Cat’s Quizzer trian aquatics”in The Seven Lady Godivas
• 41 • Express, Birthday Falls, Herk-Heimer
Express, Birthday Means said to be avail- eyelashes Among the objects that were, it able for transporting to its intended recipient is suggested, left to be supplied for Mr. a gift chosen at the Official Katroo Birthday McGrewin I Can Draw It Myself Pet Reservationin Happy Birthday to You! eyesight Ability central to the worm’s ridi- Extension, Three-Seater Zatz-it Nose-Pat- culing of the boastfulness of Mr. Rabbit and ting Device said to have been created by Mr. Bearin “The Big Brag,” as part of Yertle the narrator to permit a caressing of the crea- the Turtle and Other Stories ture called Zatz-itin On Beyond Zebra Eyesight and Solvency Test Examination extra fox Phrase cited in providing exam- for which the unnamed principal character ples of where it “comes in handy” to have of the story is told he has come to the Golden the letter X/xin Dr. Seuss’s ABC Years Clinicin You’re Only Old Once! eye and eyes 1: Among the things cited eyes shut Manner in which the Cat in the (those of the reader) as associated with a Hat says he “can read,” but against which state of being “up” (“You! / Open up / your practice he urges the young cat in I Can Read eyes!”)in Great Day for Up 2: Things the with My Eyes Shut! color of which is to be supplied by the vol- eyses Seussian rendering of “eyes” (devised ume’s purported author in My Book About to rhyme with “surprises”)in If I Ran the Me 3: Things central to the book’s overall Circus coveragein I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! See also: left eye; right eye; Stare-Eyes factory, I-and-T Workplace of Mr. Potter in Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? eyebrows 1: Among the objects that were, it is suggested, left to be supplied faddle Device (“a button”) said to be used for Mr. McGrewin I Can Draw It Myself to hold a wamel on a camelin Did I Ever 2: Among the things about which questions Tell You How Lucky You Are? are asked in The Cat’s Quizzer 3: Facial Fairfax Apartments Residence at Who-ville elements that the Cat in the Hat says get “red of Jo-Join Horton Hears a Who! hot” (together with its being, he declares, “bad for my hat”) when he reads with his faithfulness Quality of Horton basic to the “eyes shut”in I Can Read with My Eyes story’s developmentin Horton Hatches the Shut! 4: Prominent facial feature of Mr. Egg Lowe, about which the narrator says: “We Falkenberg, Farmer Character whose think he wears false eyebrows. / In fact, radishes are referred to as part of the lyrics of we’re sure it’s so.”in Hooray for Diffendoofer the old man’s songin Did I Ever Tell You Day! How Lucky You Are? eyeglasses Among the things about which fall Among the words featured for use as information is to be provided by the volume’s part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop purported authorin My Book About Me See also: one-eyed eyeglasses Falls, Herk-Heimer Cascade said to be
• 42 • fan feathers
“just grand for tooth-brushing beneath”in kinds and descriptions of fish Marco specu- Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book lates he might catchin McElligot’s Pool fan 1: Among the objects involved in the fat Among the various kinds and descrip- Cat’s Up-up-up gamein The Cat in the Hat tions of fish citedin One Fish Two Fish Red 2: Among the objects used to transfer pink Fish Blue Fish stains during the course of the spot-removal actions central to the story’s development father Among the words featured for use in The Cat in the Hat Comes Back! as part of a phrase or sentence in Hop on Pop See also: Dad fantasizing 1: Action of Marco central to the story’s developmentin And to Think Father of Nadd One of King Derwin’s Wise That I Saw It on Mulberry Street 2: Action Men in The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins central to the speculations of Marco in Father of the Father of Nadd One of King McElligot’s Pool 3: Action of Gerald Derwin’s Wise Men in The 500 Hats of McGrew central to the story in If I Ran the Bartholomew Cubbins Zoo 4: Action of Morris McGurk central to the storyin If I Ran the Circus “fault” See: “It’s all my fault” Far Foodle Place “between here and” which favorite color Among the subjects about all lights are said to be outin Dr. Seuss’s which information is to be provided by the Sleep Book volume’s purported authorin My Book farmer and farmers 1: Character who tries About Me to discourage Marco from fishingin McEl- Fa-Zoal Place near which (“ten miles or so ligot’s Pool 2: Individuals said to be “get- just beyond the North Pole”) lived “some ting stuck to hoes and plows” by the friends” to whom Peter T. Hooper tele- oobleckin Bartholomew and the Oobleck graphed for helpin Scrambled Eggs Super! Farmer Falkenberg Character whose fear Subject of the storyin “What Was I radishes are referred to as part of the lyrics Scared Of?,” as part of The Sneetches and of the old man’s song in Did I Ever Tell You Other Stories How Lucky You Are? feather, droopy-droop Single adornment fast 1: Among the various kinds and originally constituting Gertrude McFuzz’s descriptions of creatures cited in One Fish tailin “Gertrude McFuzz,” as part of Yertle Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish 2: Among the the Turtle and Other Stories words featured for use as part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop feathers 1: Objects cited (as part of a phrase) in providing examples of use of the fastly Seussian rendering of “fast” (devised letter F/fin Dr. Seuss’s ABC 2: Tail to rhyme with “Grizzly-Ghastly”)in If I plumage central to the story’s development Ran the Circus in “Gertrude McFuzz,” as part of Yertle the fast-moving bloke Among the various Turtle and Other Stories
• 43 • feeds Findow
feeds Among the words featured as part of into the Once-ler’s “tin pail” to hear from tongue-twisting textin Oh Say Can You Say? him “how the Lorax was lifted away”in feet 1: Among the things about which The Lorax questions are askedin The Cat’s Quizzer figger Seussian rendering of “figure” (de- 2: Among the things cited as associated with vised to rhyme with “jigger”)in The Butter a state of being “up”in Great Day for Up Battle Book 3: Subject the different particularities, con- figgering Seussian rendering of “figuring” texts, and conditions of which constitute the (devised to rhyme with Seussian expression overall coverage of the text in The Foot Book “biggering”)in The Lorax 4: Parts of the body of Pete that were, it is suggested, left to be suppliedin I Can Draw fight Among the words featured for use as It Myself 5: Parts of the body the narrator part of a phrase or sentence in Hop on Pop says tickling will not cause him to leave his figures and figuring Numbers and their bedin I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! arithmetic use that are the song’s subjectin 6: Among the various kinds and descrip- “I Can Figure Figures,” as part of The Cat in tions of fish (“Some have two feet / . . . and the Hat Song Book some have more”) citedin One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish See also: foot; horse feet filla-ma-dills Decorative elements that were, it is suggested, left to be supplied on Fen, Finnigan Location near which the hatsin I Can Draw It Myself Hoop-Soup-Snoop Group it is said “walks a- Finagle the Agent la-hoop”in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book “A wheeler and dealer, who knew every trick,” and who undertook ferris wheels Among the things cited as the commercial representation of Mayzie associated with a state of being “up”in McGrew and her daisyin Daisy-Head Great Day for Up Mayzie Fibbel Creature it is said “will carry the Finch, Mop-Noodled Among the birds Flummox’s tail,” as part of Circus seen by Peter T. Hooper while searching for McGurkus’s Parade-of-Paradesin If I eggs, but which it proved “weren’t laying Ran the Circus that day”in Scrambled Eggs Super! Fiddlers, Royal Members of King Derwin’s Finch the Florist Among the persons who palace staff found to be “stuck to their royal rushed to Mayzie McGrew’s school upon fiddles” by the oobleckin Bartholomew and hearing the news of her problemin Daisy- the Oobleck Head Mayzie Fiffer-feffer-feff Creature cited (as part of Find Out, Try and Characterization of a phrase) in providing examples of the use of what, “When love is in doubt,” is said to be the letter F/fin Dr. Seuss’s ABC “The job of a daisy”in Daisy-Head Mayzie fifteen cents Sum which (together with “a Findow Creature said by the narrator to be nail / and the shell of a great-great-great- / found “in my window”in There’s a Wocket grandfather snail”) it is said must be tossed in My Pocket!
• 44 • Fine-Something . . . fishbones
Fine-Something-That-All-People-Need fires Among the things the girl narrator Characterization by the Once-ler of a cites by namein The Shape of Me and Thneed, as made by him from the tufts of Other Stuff the Truffula Treein The Lorax first group Characterization of seven tigers fingernails aren’t very clean Circumstance the Cat in the Hat dismisses from contention attributed to nine tigers the Cat in the Hat dis- in “I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today!,” as part of misses from contentionin “I Can Lick 30 I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories Tigers Today!,” as part of I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories fish 1: Among the creatures about which “A Night Quizzer” question is askedin The fingers 1: Among the objects that were, it Cat’s Quizzer 2: Among the creatures that is suggested, left to be suppliedin I Can were, it is suggested, left to be suppliedin I Draw It Myself 2: Digits, numbering eleven, Can Draw It Myself 3: Among the means of present on the hands of a creature featured conveyance (“go by fish”) suggested for in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish 3: departurein Marvin K. Mooney Will You Digits the creature called Yop likes to hop Please Go Now! 4: Among the things cited along (“from finger top / to finger top”)in (“Waiting for the fish to bite”) as reasons for One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish people being at the Waiting Placein Oh, the Places You’ll Go! 5: Aquatic creatures of finicky-finick Characterization of a state of various kinds and descriptions, as specu- nervousness that it is said may cause a lated about by Marcoin McElligot’s Pool patient to “try to get out of” the Golden 6: Aquatic creatures of various kinds and Years Clinicin You’re Only Old Once! descriptions cited and/or commented Finney Proprietor of Finney’s Dinerin uponin One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Oh Say Can You Say? 7: One of the animals (“a race / on a horse / on a ball / with a fish”) it is suggested one Finney’s Diner Eating place commented might think aboutin Oh, the Thinks You Can upon in Oh Say Can You Say? Think! 8: Pet that it is said protests to the Finnigan Fen Location near which the narrator and Sally the presence of the Cat, as well as the playing of the Cat’s “good Hoop-Soup-Snoop Group it is said “walks a-la-hoop”in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book games” or “good tricks” in The Cat in the Hat 9: What the narrator says he is (“Deep Fins, Slim Jim Swim Objects a set of which deep in the sea. Cool and quiet fish.”) on it is said could be “the perfect Christmas “Green Days”in My Many Colored Days gift” for a father having the name Jimin Oh See also: Australian fish; Blue-Hoo-Fish; Say Can You Say? Catfish; Chief-in-charge-of-Fish; Circus Fish; Dog Fish; Eskimo Fish; goldfish kiss; fins like a sail Among the various kinds Humming-Fish; Saw Fish; Time-Telling and descriptions of fish (“Who has fins like a Fish; Up-up-up with a fish; vestibule fish sail”) Marco speculates he might catchin McElligot’s Pool fishbones Among the things the Cat in the
• 45 • fish hash Flobbertown
Hat tells the young cat he will, if open-eyed, flag and flags 1: Among the things about “learn about”in I Can Read with My Eyes which questions are askedin The Cat’s Shut! Quizzer 2: Among the things cited as asso- ciated with a state of being “up”in Great fish hash Among the foods the singer Day for Up says he/she could eatin “The Super-Sup- per March,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Flannel-Wing Jay Among the birds seen by Song Book Peter T. Hooper while searching for eggs, but which it proved “weren’t laying that day” fish bowl Vessel said to be used as the in Scrambled Eggs Super! diving target of Circus McGurkus’s Great Daredevil Sneelockin If I Ran the Circus flapped-jack cap Among the headgear cited within a tongue-twisterin Oh Say Can Fista One of the conjuring words from the You Say? magicians’ incantation containing the line “Fista, wista, mista-cuff”in Bartholomew flash-darks and flash-lights Mechanisms and the Oobleck about which “A Night Quizzer” question is askedin The Cat’s Quizzer Fitzgerald, Dr. One of the Golden Years Clinic physicians about whom it is predicted fleas Among Thidwick’s antler-riding crea- “all . . . will prescribe a prescription for turesin Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose you” in You’re Only Old Once! flepped Description of part of the action Fitzpatrick, Dr. One of the Golden Years (“I tossed and I flipped and I flopped and I Clinic physicians about whom it is predicted flepped.”) attending the narrator’s attempts “all . . . will prescribe a prescription for to sleep during the Midwinter Jickerin I you”in You’re Only Old Once! Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew Fitzsimmon One of the Fuddnuddler fling-flang Description of the baton- Brothersin Oh Say Can You Say? twirling action by Circus McGurkus’s Drum Major Sneelockin If I Ran the Circus Fitzsimmons, Dr. One of the Golden Years Clinic physicians about whom it is predicted Flip, Strawberry One of the confections “all . . . will prescribe a prescription for about the offering of which the narrator you”in You’re Only Old Once! declares, “You won’t get me up”in I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! Fix-it-Up Chappie Characterization of Sylvester McMonkey McBeanin “The flip-flapping Description of how, it is said, Sneetches,” as part of The Sneetches and one’s banner will wave when “once more Other Stories you’ll ride high” and are “Ready for any- thing under the sky,” after escaping from the Fizza-ma-Wizza-ma-Dill Bird (“The Waiting Placein Oh, the Places You’ll Go! world’s biggest” and which “only eats pine trees and spits out the bark”) Gerald Flobbertown “Dreary” place to which the McGrew fantasizes about capturing for narrator says Mr. Lowe told his students McGrew Zooin If I Ran the Zoo they would have to go for instruction “If our
• 46 • FLOOB fog
small school does not do well” on “a special “will ride on a Huffle,” as part of Circus test”in Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! McGurkus’s Parade-of-Paradesin If I Ran FLOOB One of the letters of the extended the Circus alphabet introduced by the narratorin On fluffy-duff primping Activity Lord Beyond Zebra Godiva’s daughters, wasting little time on Floob-Boober-Bab-Boober-Bubs Aquatic “frivol and froth,” are said not to pursue in creatures the name of which is cited as a use The Seven Lady Godivas for the letter FLOOB within the extended fluffy feathers Objects cited (as part of a alphabet introduced by the narrator in On phrase) in providing examples of use of the Beyond Zebra letter F/fin Dr. Seuss’s ABC flood, flubbulous Characterization of the flum, frittered Among the foods the singer inundation that carried the narrator away says he/she could eatin “The Super-Supper “crashing downhill”in I Had Trouble in Get- March,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book ting to Solla Sollew floops Sounds said to be made by Circus Flummox Creature it is said “will carry a Lurch in a pail,” as part of Circus McGurkus’s McGurkus’s one-nozzled noozer in If I Ran the Circus Parade-of-Parades in If I Ran the Circus Florist, Finch the Among the persons who FLUNN One of the letters of the extended rushed to Mayzie McGrew’s school upon alphabet introduced by the narratorin On hearing the news of her problemin Daisy- Beyond Zebra Head Mayzie Flunnel Creature the name of which is Flower Jungle, Birthday Place at Katroo cited as a use for the letter FLUNN within said to have “The best-sniffing flowers that the extended alphabet introduced by the nar- anyone grows”in Happy Birthday to You! ratorin On Beyond Zebra flowers 1: Among the objects that were, it Flupp Sound made by the wind when is suggested, left to be suppliedin I Can removing Bartholomew Cubbins’s hatsin Draw It Myself 2: Among the things the boy The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins narrator cites by namein The Shape of Me and Other Stuff 3: Blooms said to be gathered Flustard Creature that “only eats mustard at Katroo’s Birthday Flower Jungle by the with sauce made of custard,” which Gerald McGrew fantasizes about capturing for creatures called Who-Bubs in Happy Birth- day to You! See also: kind that likes McGrew Zoo in If I Ran the Zoo flowers fly Insect, located on a “far mountain . . . flubbulous flood Characterization of the ninety miles off,” that Mr. Rabbit tells Mr. inundation that carried the narrator away Bear he hears coughin “The Big Brag,” as “crashing downhill”in I Had Trouble in Get- part of Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories ting to Solla Sollew fog Element it is said King Derwin “growled fluff-muffled Truffle Creature it is said at” throughout all of one autumn, but which
• 47 • folks Four-Way Hunch
ultimately he came to regard as one of “the Fish Red Fish Blue Fish See also: feet four perfect things that come down from the footballs Among the things cited as associ- sky”in Bartholomew and the Oobleck ated with a state of being “up”in Great Day folks Form of address with reference to for Up persons cited as associated with a state of Footsies One of the areas (together with being “up”in Great Day for Up Fungus and Freckles) of the Three F’s medical Fonz, Dr. Among the Golden Years Clinic specialty of Dr. Sprecklesin You’re Only physicians said to have been medalists “in Old Once! the Internal Organs Olympics last year”in footsy Seussian expression of the quality You’re Only Old Once! and/or ability that (coupled with “brainy”) Foo-Foo the Snoo Creature that the Cat in is said to be associated with one who heads the Hat tells the young cat he will, if open- “straight out of town,” where “things can eyed, learn “all about”in I Can Read with happen / and frequently do”in Oh, the My Eyes Shut! Places You’ll Go! fools What the worm says were identified “For best Yekko echoes, try Gekko, our (“The two biggest fools that have ever been seen!”) grotto!” Motto said to be that of the crea- as the result of the worm’s declared earth- tures called Yekkosin On Beyond Zebra circling feat of visionin “The Big Brag,” as Fort Knox Town near which Mr. and Mrs. part of Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories J. Carmichael Krox are said to have “just Foon, Remarkable Circus McGurkus side- gone to bed”in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book show creature it is said “eats sizzling hot Fotichee One of the cries of exhortation pebbles that fall off the moon”in If I Ran from the magicians’ incantationsin The 500 the Circus Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins Foona-Lagoona Place where two Foona- Fotta-fa-Zee Place in the “green-pastured Lagoona Baboona are said to be sleepingin mountains” of which, it is said, “they live Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book without doctors, / with nary a care”in Foona-Lagoona Baboona Creatures said to You’re Only Old Once! be asleep at Foona-Lagoonain Dr. Seuss’s Four fluffy feathers on a Fiffer-feffer-feff Sleep Book Phrase cited in providing examples of use of foot 1: Among the means of departure (“go the letter F/fin Dr. Seuss’s ABC by foot”) it is suggested be usedin Marvin four-footed Among the various kinds and K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! 2: Among descriptions of creatures citedin One Fish the things a drawing to represent which is to Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish be provided by the volume’s purported authorin My Book About Me 3: Among Four-Way Hunch Alternative designation the things particularly cited and commented of the Spookish Hunchin Hunches in upon as features of a storyin One Fish Two Bunches
• 48 • fox French fries
fox 1: Among the creatures asked about, as Glunk says is to be used when making possibly being one to be accompanied by in Glunker Stewin “The Glunk That Got liking and/or eating the food treated ofin Thunk,” as part of I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! Green Eggs and Ham 2: Among the words and Other Stories featured as part of tongue-twisting textsin freckles 1: Among the things about which Fox in Socks 3: Among Thidwick’s antler- information is to be provided by the volume’s riding creaturesin Thidwick the Big-Hearted purported authorin My Book About Me Moose 4: Creature the Cat is said to have 2: Among the things about which questions moved “fast as” when he “Came back in are askedin The Cat’s Quizzer 3: One of with a box” for the playing of his Fun-in-a- the areas (together with Footsies and Fun- Box gamein The Cat in the Hat 5: Crea- gus) of the Three F’s medical specialty of Dr. ture cited (as part of a phrase) in providing Sprecklesin You’re Only Old Once! examples of where it “comes in handy” to have the letter X/xin Dr. Seuss’s ABC Fred 1: Animal that is said both to need and to feed Fritzin Oh Say Can You Say? Fox, Mr. Creature (also referred to as Mr. 2: Name of the human figure part of which Socks Fox) central, together with Mr. Knox, (“a head”) was, it is suggested, left to be sup- to the overall presentation of tongue-twist- pliedin I Can Draw It Myself 3: One of the ing textsin Fox in Socks names mentioned by Marco when he declares Fox, Mrs. Music teacher at Diffendoofer dismissively of “A reindeer and sleigh,” dur- Schoolin Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! ing the course of his fantasizing, “Sayany- one could think of that”in And to Think fox box Container of which it is said, “it’s That I Saw It on Mulberry Street heaps a lot cheaper / to fly with your foxes / than waste all that money / on boxes for Frederick One of the Fuddnuddler Brothers Groxes”in Oh Say Can You Say? in Oh Say Can You Say? France 1: Among the countries the worm, Fred-fed Fritz Character who is said both ridiculing the boastfulness of Mr. Rabbit and to need and to feed Fredin Oh Say Can Mr. Bear, says it has seen across, thus declar- You Say? ing possession of an ability of sight superior Frelinghuysen One of the seven Peeping to their hearing and sense of smellin “The Brothersin The Seven Lady Godivas Big Brag,” as part of Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories 2: Among the places, cited as French fried noodles Among the things having been confirmed by Principal cited as pertaining to an arithmetic calcula- Grumm’s research, where daisies it is said tionin “I Can Figure Figures,” as part of can growin Daisy-Head Mayzie 3: Coun- The Cat in the Hat Song Book try within “that forest” of which is said to French fries Among the foods the singer grow pants-eating-plants in Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? says he/she could eat in “The Super- Supper March,” as part of The Cat in the Hat frazzle-spade Beating implement the Song Book
• 49 • Fribble, Miss Fuddle-dee-Duddle, Miss
Fribble, Miss Teacher at Diffendoofer rently (“poodle with his left hand, camel School whose subject of instruction is with his right hand, . . . a frog with his left “laughing”in Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! big toe”)in “My Uncle Terwilliger Likes to Pat,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book Friday night Among the things cited 5: Among the things it is said singing is (“waiting around for Friday night”) as rea- “good for”in “Let Us All Sing,” as part of sons for people being at the Waiting The Cat in the Hat Song Book Placein Oh, the Places You’ll Go! front One of the particularities (“Front friend, best Among the subjects about which information is to be provided by the feet”) of the subject covered in The Foot Book volume’s purported authorin My Book Fros Creatures that are members of the About Me To-and-Fro Marchers group, as part of Circus Frink, Collapsible Creature said to have McGurkus’s Parade-of-Parades in If I Ran “collapsed in a heap”in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep the Circus Book Fruits, Truffula Produce of the Truffula friskers, high-jumping Among the various Trees in The Lorax kinds and descriptions of fish Marco specu- Frumm Country from which is said to lates he might catch in McElligot’s Pool come Circus McGurkus’s Drum-Tummied frittered flum Among the foods the singer Snumm in If I Ran the Circus says he/she could eat in “The Super-Supper frying pan, egg in a Among the things Mr. March,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book Brown “can go like,” making the sound Fritz Character who is said both to need “sizzle” in Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? and to feed Fred in Oh Say Can You Say? F’s, Three Designation at the Golden Years Fritz-fed Fred Animal that is said both Clinic of the medical specialty “Footsies, to need and to feed Fritzin Oh Say Can Fungus and Freckles”in You’re Only Old You Say? Once! frizzle Characterization of the egg-mixing Fud One of the Fuddnuddler Brothersin action of Peter T. Hooper, undertaken pre- Oh Say Can You Say? paratory to cookingin Scrambled Eggs Super! FUDDLE One of the letters (“a fine fancy frog and frogs 1: Among the creatures letter”) of the extended alphabet introduced cited as associated with a state of being “up” by the narratorin On Beyond Zebra in Great Day for Up 2: Amphibians “the fuddled Among the words featured as part world’s sweetest” of which are said to be of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks Wogs in Scrambled Eggs Super! 3: Animal that it is said Miss Bonkers of Diffendoofer Fuddle-dee-Duddle, Miss Creature the School “teaches . . . to dance”in Hooray for name of which is cited as a use for the letter Diffendoofer Day! 4: One of the animals it is FUDDLE within the extended alphabet in- said Uncle Terwilliger favors patting concur- troduced by the narratorin On Beyond Zebra
• 50 • Fuddnuddler Brothers Gasket
Fuddnuddler Brothers Siblings (Bipper, in “Happy Birthday to Little Sally Spingel Bud, Dinty, Dinwoody, Dud, Fitzsimmon, Spungel Sporn,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Frederick, Fud, Hendrix, Horace, Horatio, Song Book Hud, Jeffrey, Jipper, Jud, Lud, Skipper, Fuzzy fur One of the particularities Slinkey, Stinkey, Stuart, Stud) of whom it is (“Fuzzy fur feet”) of the subject covered said they “like to pile each on the heads of in The Foot Book the others”in Oh Say Can You Say? fuzzy little stuff and fuzzy things Charac- fulfillment, personal Subject central to terizations of what the principal character is the story’s development in Oh, the Places said to have devoted herself to “thinking You’ll Go! up,” before having “thunked” and after hav- Fungus One of the areas (together with ing “Unthunked” the Glunk in “The Glunk Footsies and Freckles) of the Three F’s med- That Got Thunk,” as part of I Can Lick 30 ical specialty of Dr. Sprecklesin You’re Only Tigers Today! and Other Stories Old Once! Gack Creature involved when playing the Funicular Goats Creatures that on one’s game Ring the Gack in One Fish Two Fish birthday, it is said, pull one (on an aerial Red Fish Blue Fish railway “with very particular boats”) to ga-fluppted Characterization of the narra- Katroo’s Birthday Flower Junglein Happy tor’s state of mind, as evaluated and defined Birthday to You! by an unidentified voicein Hunches in Fun-in-a-Box Designation of the Cat’s Bunches game involving Thing One and Thing game Among the words featured as part of Two in The Cat in the Hat tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks funny pictures Designation of subjects it is garden hose Among the things the girl nar- suggested can be drawn and identified by rator cites by namein The Shape of Me and the volume’s purported authorin My Book Other Stuff About Me Gargel-orum, High Transportational funny things Characterization of various creatures the name of which is cited as a use activities, circumstances, and creatures for the letter HI! within the extended alpha- citedin One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish bet introduced by the narratorin On Beyond Zebra fun-th Seussian rendering of “fun” (devised to rhyme with “month”)in On Beyond Zebra Gase, Nook Creature said by the narrator to be found “in my book case”in There’s a fur, Fuzzy One of the particularities (“Fuzzy Wocket in My Pocket! fur feet”) of the subject coveredin The Foot Book Gasket Among the creatures Gerald McGrew fantasizes about bringing back Futzenfell, Fredric(k) One of the charac- “from the wilds of Nantasket” for McGrew ters that is wished “happy birthday also” Zooin If I Ran the Zoo
• 51 • gawp Gick
gawp Characterization of one of the progres- general Military rank said to have been sive stages (“from gap stage to gape stage, accorded Grandpa in advance of the Yooks’ from gape stage to gawp”) of the “yawn of Big War with the Zooksin The Butter Battle all yawns,” as emitted by one of the Godiva Book horsesin The Seven Lady Godivas General Genghis Kahn Schmitz Character Ga-Zair Place cited as one in which bed- who rescued the narrator from the “flubbu- room and bathroom are far separatedin lous flood,” and then conscripted him into Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? military servicein I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew Ga-Zayt Place cited as having a traffic- clogged Zayt Highway Eightin Did I Ever GENERAL WHO-LECTRIC Maker’s Tell You How Lucky You Are? identification plate atop a Who-ville refriger- atorin How the Grinch Stole Christmas Ga-Zoom Among the means of conveyance (“Get yourself a Ga-Zoom.”) suggested for generosity Quality of Thidwick basic to the departurein Marvin K. Mooney Will You story’s development in Thidwick the Big- Please Go Now! Hearted Moose ga-Zump Sound said to have been made by George Name of the boy narrator in The the Lorax upon first appearing before the Shape of Me and Other Stuff Once-lerin The Lorax “Gertrude McFuzz” Title of a storyas Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories Geeling Creature said to be found “on the part of ceiling”in There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! get Among the words featured for use as part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop geese 1: Among the animals said to be “getting stuck” to other animals by the Getz, Diver Creature at Katroo that it is said oobleckin Bartholomew and the Oobleck dives (together with Diver Gitz) to capture 2: Among the things (“You can try with Time-Telling Fishin Happy Birthday to You! goats and geese.”) the narrator says will not Ghair Creature said to be found “under the cause him to leave his bed in I Am NOT chair”in There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! Going to Get Up Today! See also: goose Gherkin Among the creatures Gerald Gekko Place where the “underground McGrew fantasizes about bringing back grotto” of the creature called Yekko is said to “from the wilds of Nantasket” for McGrew be located in On Beyond Zebra Zooin If I Ran the Zoo Gellar Among the creatures said to be Giant, Short Character (together with a found “in the cellar”in There’s a Wocket in Tall Pigmy) central to a question askedin My Pocket! The Cat’s Quizzer gender Among the subjects about which Gick Component part of Herbie Hart’s information is to be provided by the volume’s Throm-dim-bu-latorin Did I Ever Tell You purported authorin My Book About Me How Lucky You Are?
• 52 • gift horse gloves
gift horse Nature of the animal (“that mare Gizz Designation of what of Harry Had- Uncle Ethelbert gave us last Christmas”) cen- dow’s may, it is said, be causing his inability tral to Lady Clementina’s Horse Truth dis- to “make any shadow”in Did I Ever Tell covery: “Don’t ever look a gift horse in the You How Lucky You Are? mouth!”in The Seven Lady Godivas glad 1: Among the emotions the Cat in gifts, Christmas Presents suggested for the Hat tells the young cat, “You can learn fathers named Dwight or Jimin Oh Say Can about . . .”in I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! You Say? 2: Among the various kinds and descrip- tions of fish citedin One Fish Two Fish Red Ginns, Dr. Golden Years Clinic physician Fish Blue Fish identified as “our A and S Man who does Antrums and Shins”in You’re Only Old Once! glad-ish Seussian rendering of “glad” giraffes 1: Among the creatures cited as (devised to rhyme with “radish”) in Did I associated with a state of being “up”in Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? Great Day for Up 2: Animals Marco (with- gleap away Part of the magicians’ exhorta- out specification of them) fantasizes about tion “Seep away, creep away, leap away, having harnessed, together with an elephant, gleap away. . .”in The 500 Hats of for the pulling of a bandwagonin And to Bartholomew Cubbins Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street gleeks Illness of the camel, as diagnosed girl and girls 1: Among the words cited in by Dr. Sam Snellin I Had Trouble in Getting providing examples of use of the letter to Solla Sollew G/gin Dr. Seuss’s ABC 2: Among the persons cited as associated with a state of GLIKK One of the letters of the extended being “up”in Great Day for Up See also: alphabet introduced by the narrator in On Right-Side-Up Song Girls Beyond Zebra Girl Scouts One of the organizations Glikker Creature the name of which is about which questions are askedin cited as a use for the letter GLIKK within the The Cat’s Quizzer extended alphabet introduced by the narra- torin On Beyond Zebra Gish Fisherman for whom, as is suggested, it was left that a Blue-Hoo-Fish should be Gloing Sound made by the oobleck when suppliedin I Can Draw It Myself snapping “back inside the trumpet” of the royal trumpeterin Bartholomew and the gits Seussian rendering of “gets” (devised Oobleck to rhyme with “Gitz”)in Happy Birthday to You! Glotz Creature described as having “lots of black spots”in Oh Say Can You Say? Gitz, Diver Creature at Katroo that it is said dives (together with Diver Getz) to gloves Among the things it is suggested capture Time-Telling Fishin Happy Birthday one “can think about”in Oh, the Thinks You to You! Can Think! See also: gruvvulous glove
• 53 • gluey Golden Years Clinic
gluey Among the words featured as part of examples of use of the letter G/gin Dr. tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks Seuss’s ABC 3: Among the animals said to be “getting stuck” to other animals by the GLUGG Sound made by the royal trum- oobleckin Bartholomew and the Oobleck peter’s oobleck-clogged hornin Bartholomew 4: Among the things (“You can try with and the Oobleck goats and geese.”) the narrator says will not glumping Characterization by the Lorax of cause him to leave his bedin I Am NOT the Once-ler’s action in polluting “the pond Going to Get Up Today! 5: Among the things where the Humming-Fish hummed”in it is said singing is “good for”in “Let Us The Lorax All Sing,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book 6: Animals on which “horns” were, it Glunk Creature produced by the principal character’s Thinker-Upperin “The Glunk is suggested, left to be supplied in I Can That Got Thunk,” as part of I Can Lick 30 Draw It Myself See also: Funicular Goats Tigers Today! and Other Stories Godiva, Lady ––––– Titular designation of Glunker Stew Culinary creation the Glunk the daughters (Arabella, Clementina, Dorcas J., Gussie, Hedwig, Lulu, and Mitzi) of Lord tells his mother how to prepare in “The Glunk That Got Thunk,” as part of I Can Lick Godiva in The Seven Lady Godivas 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories Godiva, Lord Titular designation of the glunking Culminating process in the mak- Earl of all Coventry, father of the seven daughters who are the principal characters ing of Glunker Stew in “The Glunk That Got Thunk,” as part of I Can Lick 30 Tigers of the story in The Seven Lady Godivas Today! and Other Stories Godiva Sisters Collective designation of Gluppity-Glupp One of the pollutants said Lord Godiva’s seven daughters in The to have been created (“this leftover goo”) by Seven Lady Godivas the Once-ler’s factoryin The Lorax goes Among the words featured as part of GLURK Sound said to be made by fish tongue-twisting texts in Fox in Socks Marco speculates he might catch from goggles Object cited (as part of a phrase) in “down in the mire and the muck and the providing examples of use of the letter G/g murk” of “the world’s deepest ocean”in in Dr. Seuss’s ABC McElligot’s Pool gol-darndest Characterization Gerald go Action of departure that the character McGrew says people will accord the lion being addressed is repeatedly asked to take (having “ten feet, at least”) at McGrew Zoo, in Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! as well as the overall zoo itselfin If I Ran goat and goats 1: Among the creatures the Zoo asked about, as possibly being one to be Golden Years Clinic Facility that is the set- accompanied by in liking and/or eating the ting of the story, and which is said to have as food treated ofin Green Eggs and Ham a medical specialty “Spleen Readjustment 2: Among the words cited in providing and Muffler Repair”in You’re Only Old Once!
• 54 • goldfish kiss grape cakes
goldfish kiss Among the things Mr. Brown singer says he/she could eatin “The Super- “can go like,” making the sound “pip”in Supper March,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? Song Book goo 1: Among the words featured as part Gootch Among the creatures Gerald of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks McGrew fantasizes about bringing back 2: Characterization of the act of sprinkling “from the wilds of Nantasket” for McGrew upon an enemy the Blue Goo carried by the Zooin If I Ran the Zoo Utterly Sputters, said to have been created gown Among the objects and surfaces said by both the Yooks and the Zooksin The to have been bumped (“Mother’s new gown”) Butter Battle Book 3: Characterization (“this by the kites of Thing One and Thing Two leftover goo”) of the pollutant called Gluppity- while playing the Cat’s Fun-in-a-Box Gluppin The Lorax See also: Blue Goo gamein The Cat in the Hat gooey Among the words featured as part Gown, Gucky Character said to live alone of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks “in the Ruins of Ronk”in Did I Ever Tell You googoo goggles Phrase cited in providing How Lucky You Are? examples of use of the letter G/gin Dr. Gox Creature with which the narrator says Seuss’s ABC he likes to boxin One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Goo-Goose Creature that relates to a seg- Blue Fish ment of the presentation of tongue-twisting Gox box socks Stockings the narrator says textsin Fox in Socks he wears when boxing with his Goxin One goolash Food the singer says he/she Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish “could eat three bowls of”in “The Super- Gractus, Grickily Bird the egg of which, laid Supper March,” as part of The Cat in the Hat “up high in a prickily cactus,” was captured Song Book by Peter T. Hooperin Scrambled Eggs Super! Goor Component part of Herbie Hart’s Grand Duke Wilfred Nephew of King Throm-dim-bu-latorin Did I Ever Tell You Derwinin The 500 Hats of Bartholomew How Lucky You Are? Cubbins goose Among the creatures said to be Grandfather or Grandpa Character that asleep in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book See also: imparts to his Yook grandson an account, geese; Goo-Goose constituting the principal narrative of the goose juice Substance referred to as perti- story, of the conflicts between the adjoining nent to both “moose dreams” and “goose countries of the Yooks and the Zooksin dreams,” but of which it is said, “. . . it isn’t The Butter Battle Book too good when a moose and a goose / Start grape cakes Food about which it is said, dreaming they’re drinking the other one’s “The greener the green grapes are, / the juice.” in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book keener keen apes are / to gobble green goose-moose burger Among the foods the grape cakes.”in Oh Say Can You Say?
• 55 • grapes Grinch
grapes Among the things the boy narrator citedin My Many Colored Days 2: Color cites by namein The Shape of Me and Other of grapes about which it is said, “The Stuff greener green grapes are, / the keener keen apes are / to gobble green grape cakes.”in grass Growth “in his uncle’s back yard” it is Oh Say Can You Say? 3: Color of the ele- said Ali Sard must mowin Did I Ever Tell phant that was, it is suggested, left to be sup- You How Lucky You Are? pliedin I Can Draw It Myself See also: gray Among the classifications of days dizzy blue-green; Crumple-horn, Web-footed, citedin My Many Colored Days Green-bearded Schlottz; kelly green; pale Great Balancing Act Description and/or green pants definition of the nature of Life in Oh, the green eggs and ham Food upon which Places You’ll Go! the book’s dialogue centersin Green Eggs Great Birthday Bird Alternative designa- and Ham tion of the creature (Birthday Bird) said to be, green hair What, it is suggested, was left off, on one’s birthday at Katroo, “in charge of it so it could be supplied on Stan Stine’s head all” in Happy Birthday to You! in I Can Draw It Myself Great Daredevil One of several Circus Green-Headed Quail Alternative designa- McGurkus titles accorded Mr. Sneelockin If tion of the Quilligan Quailin I Had Trouble I Ran the Circus in Getting to Solla Sollew Greatest Show, World’s One of the charac- terizations of Circus McGurkusin If I Ran green string bean Among the things cited the Circus as pertaining to an arithmetic calculation in “I Can Figure Figures,” as part of The Cat in Great Experiment Characterization of the Hat Song Book Lady Mitzi’s pursuit of “the problems of equestrian aquatics”in The Seven Lady Grice Bird the eggs of which, laid “on the Godivas ice,” were secured for Peter T. Hooper by his friends from near Fa-Zoalin Scrambled Eggs great-great-great-grandfather snail Animal Super! the shell of which (together with “fifteen cents / and a nail”) it is said must be tossed into the Grickily Gractus Bird the egg of which, Once-ler’s “tin pail” to hear from him “how laid “up high in a prickily cactus,” was the Lorax was lifted away”in The Lorax captured by Peter T. Hooperin Scrambled Great North Hall Area of Castle Eggs Super! Godiva in The Seven Lady Godivas Grickle-grass Growth said currently to be Great Places Prospective destinations it is present “At the far end of town”in The said “You’re off to”in Oh, the Places You’ll Lorax Go! Grinch Principal character of the story, who, green 1: Among the classifications of days hating Christmas, undertook to deprive the
• 56 • Grinch, Beagle-Beaked . . . grudge
Whos of their holiday observancein How Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? the Grinch Stole Christmas grouch Among the various kinds and Grinch, Beagle-Beaked-Bald-Headed descriptions of fish (“With a terrible grouch”) Among the birds seen by Peter T. Hooper Marco speculates he might catchin while searching for eggs, but which it proved McElligot’s Pool “weren’t laying that day”in Scrambled Group, Hoop-Soup-Snoop Sleepwalkers Eggs Super! that “have to keep eating to keep up their grinch-ish-ly humming Characterization strength” and of which it is said, “So, every of the manner the Grinch, upon completion so often, one puts down his hoop, / Stops of his Christmas Eve plundering of Who-ville hooping and does some quick snooping for homes, mused with satisfactionin How the soup.”in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book Grinch Stole Christmas Grouse, Tizzle-Topped Among the birds Grinchy Claus Characterization of the the eggs of which Peter T. Hooper secured Grinch during his Christmas Eve masquer- while seeking “Some fine fancy eggs that no ade as Santa Clausin How the Grinch Stole other cook cooks”in Scrambled Eggs Super! Christmas grow and grows 1: Among the things cited Grinchy trick Characterization by the (“waiting for their hair to grow”) as reasons Grinch of his impersonation of Santa for people being at the Waiting Placein Oh, Clausin How the Grinch Stole Christmas the Places You’ll Go! 2: Among the words featured as part of tongue-twisting textsin Grin-itch Town in which the narrator had Fox in Socks his second encounter with the “spooky pale green pants / With nobody inside ’em”in Grox Creature for which, if transported by “What Was I Scared Of?,” as part of The air, it is said “they charge double the Sneetches and Other Stories fare”in Oh Say Can You Say? Grin-itch spinach Vegetable got at Grin-itch Grox Box Container in which it is said a by the narratorin “What Was I Scared Of?,” Grox must be carried if transported by as part of The Sneetches and Other Stories airin Oh Say Can You Say? grizzilies Among the kinds of bears with G-r-ritch Snarling sound made by the Niz- which Uncle Terwilliger is said to dancein zardsin The King’s Stilts “My Uncle Terwilliger Waltzes with Bears,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book G r r zapp and G r r zibb and Grrzopp Sounds made by the Yeoman Grizzly-Ghastly Circus McGurkus creature of the Bowmen’s arrowsin The 500 Hats of said to be wrestled by Kid Sneelock (“champ- Bartholomew Cubbins of-all-champs”)in If I Ran the Circus grudge Seussian rendering of “garage,” Grooz Place at which Ali Sard is said to about which a question (“. . . a one- or two- “paint flagpoles / on Sundays”in Did I car grudge?”) is askedin The Cat’s Quizzer
• 57 • grum hair
grum Sound made by Mr. Brown, like “a gun-toting spaniel Characterization of the hippopotamus chewing gum”in Mr. Brown Yooks’ “real smart dog named Daniel”in Can Moo! Can You? The Butter Battle Book Grumm, Mr. Gregory Principal of Mayzie gupp Seussian rendering of “guff” (devised McGrew’s schoolin Daisy-Head Mayzie to rhyme with “up”)in The Butter Battle Book Grush, Nooth Creature said by the narra- Gusset Among the creatures Gerald tor to be found “on my tooth brush”in McGrew fantasizes about bringing back There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! “from the wilds of Nantasket” for McGrew Zooin If I Ran the Zoo gruvvulous glove Once-ler’s garment that contains his Snuvvin The Lorax Gussie, Lady One of Lord Godiva’s daugh- tersin The Seven Lady Godivas guards Members of the protective unit at the Kingdom of Binnin The King’s Stilts gusty lusty notes Description of the musi- See also: Captain of the Guards; Changing cal expression said to be beneficial to “dusty of the Cat Guard; King’s Own Guards musty throats”in “Let Us All Sing,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book Guernsey Place off which Lady Mitzi was picked up at sea by the Bouncing Queen Gwark, Island of Place from which, as part Maevein The Seven Lady Godivas of his fantasizing, Gerald McGrew intends to capture for McGrew Zoo the creature called guests Positive characterization of Thid- Fizza-ma-Wizza-ma-Dillin If I Ran the Zoo wick’s antler-riding creaturesin Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose H Letter of the alphabet it is said the names of “more than 100 things . . . begin with,” as guff Creature it is suggested one might try components of the picture constituting the to “think up” as seen “going by”in Oh, the book’s final puzzlein The Cat’s Quizzer Thinks You Can Think! had Among the words featured for use as gum Among the things the girl narrator part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop cites by namein The Shape of Me and Other Stuff See also: chewing gum; hippopota- Haddow, Harry Character said not to be mus chewing gum able to “make any shadow”in Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? Gump, Mr. Character identified as having “a seven hump Wump”in One Fish Two hair 1: Among the things a drawing to Fish Red Fish Blue Fish represent which is to be provided by the vol- ume’s purported authorin My Book About Gump, Wump of Designation of the seven- Me 2: Among the things cited (“waiting for humped creature owned by Mr. Gumpin their hair to grow”) as reasons for people One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish being at the Waiting Placein Oh, the Places guns, pop Among the objects used by the You’ll Go! 3: Single strand atop the heads Little Cats to deal with the Snow Spotsin of the creatures called Zeds, which it is said The Cat in the Hat Comes Back! “grows . . . / so fast . . . / they need a hair cut
• 58 • Hakken-Kraks Harp-Twanging Snarp
/ every day”in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish hand on a door Among the things Mr. Blue Fish See also: blue hair; curly hair; Brown “can go like,” making the sound green hair “knock”in Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? Hakken-Kraks Creatures despite the howl Hang–ups Possible impediments (together of which (and although “the weather be foul” with “Bang-ups”) that it is said “can happen and “your enemies prowl”), it is said, “On to you”in Oh, the Places You’ll Go! you will go” in Oh, the Places You’ll Go! happened to happen Explanation given for hall 1: One of the areas said to have been “the strange thing” Bartholomew Cubbins involved in the playing of the Cat’s Fun-in-a- experienced, as central to the story’s devel- Box gamein The Cat in the Hat 2: Place opment in The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cub- down which, the narrator says, a creature bins called Zall “scoots” in There’s a Wocket in happy How the narrator characterizes days My Pocket! See also: Great North Hall; as being when they are “Pink”in My Many Stilt-Walkers’ Hall Colored Days Hallelujah Among the words the Cat in Happy Birthday Asso-see-eye-ation, Katroo the Hat says, “I can read . . . with my eyes Organization said to have responsibility for tight shut!”in I Can Read with My Eyes the training of Birthday Birdsin Happy Shut! Birthday to You! ham One of the foods questions about the Happy Birthday Cake Cookers, Official liking and/or eating of are central to the Katroo Designation of the bakers Snookers book’s dialoguein Green Eggs and Ham and Snookersin Happy Birthday to You! Hamika-Snamika-Bamika-Bunt Creature “Happy Birthday to Little Sally Spingel part of which (“the whole front”) was, it is Spungel Sporn” Title of a songin The Cat suggested, left to be suppliedin I Can Draw in the Hat Song Book It Myself Happy Hunch Creature-represented im- Ham-ikka-Schnim-ikka-Schnam-ikka pulse that suggested to the narrator “that I Schnopp Creature ridden on by Peter T. shouldn’t be in . . . but OUT”in Hunches in Hooper while securing eggs of the three- Bunches eyelashed Tizzyin Scrambled Eggs Super! Happy Way Bus Vehicle intended as provi- ding a means of transportation to Solla Sollew ham stew Among the foods the singer says he/she could eatin “The Super-Sup- in I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew per March,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Harp See: Three-Snarper-Harp Song Book Harp-Twanging Snarp Creatures that, “on hand Among the things a drawing to top of the Flummox,” will it is said “twang represent which is to be provided by the mighty twangs on their Three-Snarper-Harp,” volume’s purported authorin My Book as part of Circus McGurkus’s Parade-of- About Me Paradesin If I Ran the Circus
• 59 • Harris Tweed hearing
Harris Tweed Among the names it is said Tournament Knightsin If I Ran the Circus Mrs. McCave often wishes she had given one Hawtcher Alternative designation of some- of her “twenty-three Daves” in “Too Many one from Hawtch-Hawtchin Did I Ever Tell Daves,” as part of The Sneetches and Other You How Lucky You Are? Stories Hawtch-Hawtch Place near which a Bee- Harry One of the seven Peeping Brothers Watcher is said to be employedin Did I in The Seven Lady Godivas Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? Hart, Herbie Character said to have disas- Hawtch-Hawtcher Designation of someone sembled his Throm-dim-bu-lator in Did I from the town called Hawtch-Hawtchin Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? Harvard Club Establishment referred to as Hawtch-Hawtcher Bee-Watcher Character where the hunters intended Thidwick’s said to have as his job at Hawtch-Hawtch “to mounted head to be located, and where his keep both his eyes on the lazy town bee”in “old horns” are ultimately situatedin Thid- Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? wick the Big-Hearted Moose Hay Among the words cited in providing hash See: fish hash; Who-hash examples of use of the letter H/hin Dr. Seuss’s ABC Hastings, Battle of Lord Godiva’s intended destination on the day of his deathin The he Among the words featured for use as Seven Lady Godivas part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop hat and hats 1: Among the means of con- head and heads 1: Among the things cited veyance (“go / in a hat”) suggested for as associated with a state of being “up” in departurein Marvin K. Mooney Will You Great Day for Up 2: Part of the body of Fred Please Go Now! 2: Among the things partic- that was, it is suggested, left to be supplied ularly cited and commented upon as features in I Can Draw It Myself of a storyin One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue headski Seussian rendering of “head” Fish 3: Headgear central to the story’s (devised to echo the final syllable of developmentin The 500 Hats of Bartholomew “Palooski”)in If I Ran the Zoo Cubbins 4: Object cited (as part of a phrase) health and health care Subjects central to in providing examples of use of the letter H/hin Dr. Seuss’s ABC 5: Objects that the story in You’re Only Old Once! were, it is suggested, left to be supplied “full hearing 1: Ability central to Mr. Rabbit’s of filla-ma-dills”in I Can Draw It Myself boastfulnessin “The Big Brag,” as part of See also: Cat in the Hat Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories 2: Ability that was prevented by a bird’s being tem- Hat Cat One of the alternative forms of ref- porarily present within a creature’s ear erence to the Cat in the Hatin The Cat in the in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Hat Comes Back! 3: Effort central to the story’s development Hawkins, Sir One of Circus McGurkus’s in Horton Hears a Who!
• 60 • heat high
heat Weather condition cited with regard “just grand for tooth-brushing beneath”in to two tigers (“You two, I’m afraid, / Should Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book lie down in the shade.”) the Cat in the Hat Herk-Heimer Sisters Siblings identified as dismisses from contentionin “I Can Lick 30 “using their brushes” at Herk-Heimer Tigers Today!,” as part of I Can Lick 30 Tigers Fallsin Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book Today! and Other Stories Herman One of the squirrels among Thid- Hector, Sir One of Circus McGurkus’s wick’s antler-riding creatures in Thidwick Tournament Knights in If I Ran the Circus the Big-Hearted Moose Hedwig, Lady One of Lord Godiva’s Hero Declaration by Morris McGurk of daughters in The Seven Lady Godivas what Mr. Sneelock will ultimately be regarded height Among the subjects about which as, because of his accomplishments as a Circus information is to be provided by the volume’s McGurkus performer in If I Ran the Circus purported authorin My Book About Me Herrings, Dr. Derring’s Singing, Spelling Helicopter Cap Headgear about which a Choral fish that during a Big Birthday Party question is askedin The Cat’s Quizzer at Katroo both sing and, through organizing themselves in appropriate formation, spell help Among the words featured for use as out the greeting being conveyedin Happy part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop Birthday to You! hen 1: Among the creatures cited as associ- hethreetreebee Quiz element, of combined ated with a state of being “up”in Great Day words, citedin Hop on Pop for Up 2: Source of eggs regarded by Peter Hi Greeting the narrator says, at the story’s T. Hooper as “What a dumb thing to use / close, is now regularly exchanged when they With all of the other fine eggs you could “quite often” meet, “Those empty pants and choose!” in Scrambled Eggs Super! See I”in “What Was I Scared Of?,” as part of also: sort-of-a-hen The Sneetches and Other Stories Hendrix One of the Fuddnuddler HI! One of the letters of the extended Brothers in Oh Say Can You Say? alphabet introduced by the narratorin Hen in a hat Phrase cited in providing On Beyond Zebra examples of use of the letter H/hin Dr. Hiffer-back Means of transportation, Seuss’s ABC besides “Horseback and Bird-back,” by her One of the particularities (“Her feet”) which friends are said to arrive for a Big of the subject coveredin The Foot Book Birthday Party at Katroo’s Birthday Pal-alacein Happy Birthday to You! here Among the locations asked about, as high 1: Among the various kinds and possibly being a place for liking and/or eating the food treated ofin Green Eggs and Ham descriptions of creatures cited in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish 2: One of the Herk-Heimer Falls Cascade said to be contexts (“High foot”) of the subject cover-
• 61 • High diddle dester Homework Hunch
edin The Foot Book 3: One of the levels it Hippo-Heimers Creatures said to be used is suggested one might “think”in Oh, the to carry “wondrous-smelling stacks” of Thinks You Can Think! blooms from the Birthday Flower Jungle in Happy Birthday to You! High diddle dester First line of Lady Gussie’s songin The Seven Lady Godivas Hippo-no-Hungus, Jungles of Area from High Gargel-orum Transportational crea- which Gerald McGrew fantasizes about bringing back a flock of the creatures called tures the name of which is cited as a use for the letter HI! within the extended alphabet Bippo-no-Bungus for McGrew Zoo in If I introduced by the narratorin On Beyond Ran the Zoo Zebra hippopotamus chewing gum Among the high-jumping friskers Among the various things Mr. Brown “can go like,” making the kinds and descriptions of fish Marco specu- sound “grum” in Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can lates he might catchin McElligot’s Pool You? highway Road ultimately constructed his One of the particularities (“His feet”) of “right over those two stubborn Zax”in the subject coveredin The Foot Book “The Zax,” as part of The Sneetches and Other Hi-Sign-and-Shake, Secret Katroo Birthday Stories See also: State Highway Two-Hun- Characterization of the finger-and-toe man- dred-and-Three; Zayt Highway Eight ner of exchanging greetings, on one’s birth- hill and hills 1: Among the words fea- day, with the Birthday Bird of Katrooin tured for use as part of a phrase or sentence Happy Birthday to You! in Hop on Pop 2: Forms (“high pink hills”) hobbies Among the subjects about which into which the Little Cats transformed the information is to be provided by the volume’s Snow Spotsin The Cat in the Hat Comes Back! purported authorin My Book About Me him Among the words featured for use as part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop Ho, diddle dum Second line of Lady Gussie’s songin The Seven Lady Godivas Hinkle-Horn Honkers and Hinkle-Horn Honking Club Musicians at Mercedd that holiday bell Object rung to announce spe- are said to have “honked themselves out” cial observances at the Kingdom of Didd in in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book Bartholomew and the Oobleck Hinkle-Horn Nook Compartment for the Holland Among the countries the worm, storage of instruments played by members ridiculing the boastfulness of Mr. Rabbit and of the Hinkle-Horn Honking Clubin Dr. Mr. Bear, says it has seen across, thus declar- Seuss’s Sleep Book ing possession of an ability of sight superior to their hearing and sense of smellin “The hippo Animal involved in Miss Bonkers’ Big Brag,” as part of Yertle the Turtle and undertaking to instruct Diffendoofer School Other Stories students “why / A hippo cannot hope to fly”in Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! Homework Hunch Creature-represented
• 62 • honey bears horn
impulse the Real Tough Hunch imposedin Cooper’s Super Soup-Off-Hoops Soak Suds) Hunches in Bunches recommended “to wash soup off a hoop” in Oh Say Can You Say? honey bears Among the kinds of bears with which Uncle Terwilliger is said to dance Hoop-Soup-Snoop Group Sleepwalkers in “My Uncle Terwilliger Waltzes with that “have to keep eating to keep up their Bears,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book strength” and of which it is said, “So, every so often, one puts down his hoop, / Stops Honkers and Honking Club, Hinkle-Horn hooping and does some quick snooping for Musicians at Mercedd that are said to have soup.”in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book “honked themselves out”in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book Hooray 1: Among the words cited in pro- viding examples of use of the letter H/hin Honk-Honker, Birthday Musician at Dr. Seuss’s ABC 2: Concluding declaration, Katroo that it is said plays on one’s birthday in celebration of “the shapes we’re in,” of the from “high up Mt. Zorn”in Happy Birthday girl narratorin The Shape of Me and Other to You! Stuff 3: Exclamation of delight expressed hoo Sound made by Mr. Brown, “like an in Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! owl”in Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? Hoos-Foos Among the names it is said hood See: wink-hood Mrs. McCave often wishes she had given one of her “twenty-three Daves”in “Too Many Hooded Klopfers Creatures said to provide Daves,” as part of The Sneetches and Other transportation to Katroo’s Birthday Pal-alace Stories in Happy Birthday to You! hoo-to foo-to boo-to bah Subject involved Hoodwink Circus McGurkus side-show in the theft treated ofin “Somebody Stole creature it is said “winks in his wink-hood” My Hoo-to Foo-to Boo-to Bah!,” as part of in If I Ran the Circus The Cat in the Hat Song Book Hooey Name of “a book-reading parrot” hop 1: Action cited as what a Yop likes to in Oh Say Can You Say? do “from finger top / to finger top”in One Hoof Burn Debilitation suffered by Lady Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish 2: Among Mitzi’s aquatic horsesin The Seven Lady the words featured for use as part of a Godivas phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop hook cook book Characterization of the Horace One of the Fuddnuddler Brothers volume that is said to be consulted by a in Oh Say Can You Say? Nookin One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Horatio One of the Fuddnuddler Brothers Hooper, Peter T. Narrator and the princi- in Oh Say Can You Say? pal character of the storyin Scrambled Eggs horn Among the things (a musical instru- Super! ment) Mr. Brown “can go like,” making the Hoop Soap Substance (also cited as Soapy sound “blurp”in Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can
• 63 • horns Hotel, Sneeden’s
You? See also: Birthday Horn; Hinkle- letter H/hin Dr. Seuss’s ABC 8: One of Horn . . . ; Poogle-Horn . . . ; Welcoming Horn the animals (“a race / on a horse / on a ball / with a fish”) it is suggested one might think horns 1: Among the objects (“the horns aboutin Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! See on these goats”) that were, it is suggested, also: Paul Revere’s fine horse; Sea Horse left to be suppliedin I Can Draw It Myself 2: Antlers central to the performance of Horse-Drawn Vehicular Transportation Circus McGurkus’s Through-Horns-Jump- Research specialty pursued by Lady Dorcas J. ing-Deerin If I Ran the Circus 3: Antlers in The Seven Lady Godivas of Thidwick that are central to the story’s horse feet Among the things Mr. Brown development in Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose 4: Antlers of various elaborate sorts “can go like,” making the sound “klopp” in on deer Gerald McGrew fantasizes about Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? capturing for McGrew Zooin If I Ran the horseshoes Objects central to Lady Lulu’s Zoo Horse Truth discovery: “horseshoes are horn-tooting apes Circus McGurkus crea- lucky” in The Seven Lady Godivas tures “from the Jungles of Jorn” that it is said horse thieves Felons who “stealthily broke will on Opening Night play “a welcoming in” and carried off Lady Hedwig’s horse Par- toot” on the Welcoming Horn in If I Ran sifalin The Seven Lady Godivas the Circus Horse Truth Quest Designation of the over- horrible howls Characterization of the all objective constituting the story’s basic sounds of the Midwinter Jicker that (together developmentin The Seven Lady Godivas with mice and owls) kept the narrator awakein I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Horse Truths “New and worthy” equine Sollew maxims sought by Lord Godiva’s daughters, entailing individual pursuits that constitute horse and horses 1: Animal Marco actu- the Horse Truth Quest in The Seven Lady ally saw (“a plain horse”) pulling a wagon Godivas in And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street 2: One of the creatures it is suggested one Horton the Elephant 1: Principal character “can think up”in Oh, the Thinks You Can of the storyin Horton Hatches the Egg Think! 3: Steed of King Derwin that is 2: Principal character of the storyin Horton sought by Bartholomewin Bartholomew and Hears a Who! the Oobleck 4: Among the creatures about hose and hoses 1: Among the words fea- which “A Night Quizzer” question is asked tured as part of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in The Cat’s Quizzer 5: Among the things in Socks 2: Among the things the Cat in the the girl narrator cites by namein The Shape Hat says, “You can read about . . .”in I Can of Me and Other Stuff 6: Animals central to Read with My Eyes Shut! See also: garden the story’s basic developmentin The Seven hose; snergelly hose Lady Godivas 7: Animal cited (as part of a phrase) in providing examples of use of the Hotel, Sneeden’s Hostelry referred to by
• 64 • Hot-Shot HUMPF
Marco during his speculationsin McElligot’s huckleberry mish mash Among the foods Pool the singer says he/she could eatin “The Super-Supper March,” as part of The Cat in Hot-Shot Among the names it is said Mrs. the Hat Song Book McCave often wishes she had given one of her “twenty-three Daves”in “Too Many Hud One of the Fuddnuddler Brothersin Daves,” as part of The Sneetches and Other Oh Say Can You Say? Stories Hudson Bay One of the areas from which, Hour, Stilt Time during the afternoon for according to his speculation, Marco says fish King Birtram’s recreational activityin The might come in McElligot’s Pool King’s Stilts Huffle Creature it is said will carry a fluff- muffled Truffle, as part of Circus McGurkus’s house and houses 1: Among the things about which information is to be provided Parade-of-Parades in If I Ran the Circus by the volume’s purported authorin My humming, grinch-ish-ly Characterization Book About Me 2: Among the things King of the manner the Grinch, upon completion Yertle declares have come, as his throne is of his Christmas Eve plundering of Who-ville progressively elevated, within his domain homes, mused with satisfactionin How the in “Yertle the Turtle,” as part of Yertle the Tur- Grinch Stole Christmas tle and Other Stories 3: Among the words hummingbird eggs Objects within a nest, featured for use as part of a phrase or sen- located vastly beyond the fly that was heard tencein Hop on Pop 4: One of the contexts coughing by Mr. Rabbit, and about which (“In the house”) of the subject covered in Mr. Bear says, “My nose is so good that I The Foot Book 5: Structure asked about, as smelled without fail / That the egg on the left possibly being a place within which to like is a little bit stale!” in “The Big Brag,” as part and/or eat the food treated of in Green Eggs of Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories and Ham 6: Among the objects that were, it is suggested, left to be suppliedin I Can Humming-Fish Creatures said formerly to Draw It Myself have inhabited a “rippulous pond” within the area where the Truffula Trees grewin howls, horrible Characterization of the The Lorax sounds of the Midwinter Jicker that (together with mice and owls) kept the narrator Humpf 1: Seussian rendering of the interjection “humph,” as expressed by the awake in I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew “sour kangaroo” in Horton Hears a Who! 2: Seussian rendering of the interjection “How to Cook” Title of the volume that is “humph,” as grunted by Mr. Bearin “The said to be consulted by a Nookin One Fish Big Brag,” as part of Yertle the Turtle and Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Other Stories how to smell roses Among the things the HUMPF One of the letters of the extended Cat in the Hat says, “You can read about . . .” alphabet introduced by the narratorin On in I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! Beyond Zebra
• 65 • Humpf-Humpf . . . I-dotter
Humpf-Humpf-a-Dumpfer Creature I am a Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz as you can the name of which is cited as something plainly see. Sentence cited in providing which cannot be spelled without use of the examples of use of the letter Z/zin Dr. letter HUMPF, from within the extended Seuss’s ABC alphabet introduced by the narratorin “I AM I” Declaration one is encouraged to On Beyond Zebra make, on one’s birthday, from the Official hunches Subject of the story (involving the Katroo Birthday Sounding-Off Placein creature-represented Better Hunch, Down Happy Birthday to You! Hunch, Four-way Hunch, Happy Hunch, I-and-T factory Workplace of Mr. Potter Homework Hunch, Munch Hunch, Nowhere Hunch, Real Tough Hunch, Sour Hunch, in Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? Spookish Hunch, Super Hunch, Up Hunch, Icabod Name cited (as part of a sentence) and Very Odd Hunch)in Hunches in Bunches in providing examples of use of the letter hunchy punches, crunchy Blows the narra- I/i in Dr. Seuss’s ABC tor says were thrown when “things got really Icabod is itchy. Sentence cited in providing out of hand” and “Wild hunches in big examples of use of the letter I/iin Dr. bunches / were scrapping all around me”in Seuss’s ABC Hunches in Bunches “I Can Figure Figures” Title of a songin Hungry horse Phrase cited in providing The Cat in the Hat Song Book examples of use of the letter H/hin Dr. Seuss’s ABC “I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today!” Title of a storyas part of I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! hunters 1: Men who pursued Thidwick and Other Stories in Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose 2: Three men who capture Hortonin Horton Hatches ice 1: Among the things (“ice,” as well as the Egg “Mice on ice” and “ice on mice”) the Cat in the Hat tells the young cat, “You can read “Hurry Hurry Hurry!” Title of a song in about . . .”in I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! The Cat in the Hat Song Book 2: Surface it is said Peter the Postman hut Residence (“Far off in the fields, on the crosses “once every day / and on Satur- edge of a cranberry bog”) of Bartholomew days, twice”in Oh, the Thinks You Can Cubbins and his familyin The 500 Hats of Think! See also: price of ice Bartholomew Cubbins Idaho Among the places, cited as having Hut-Zut Musical instrument the Cat in the been confirmed by Principal Grumm’s Hat tells the young cat he can, if open-eyed, research, where daisies it is said can learn to playin I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! grow in Daisy-Head Mayzie I Pronoun used (as part of a sentence) in I-dotter Part of the characterization (together providing examples of use of the letter with “T-crosser”) of Mr. Potter’s occupation I/iin Dr. Seuss’s ABC in Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?
• 66 • if Italy
if One of the examples of “Little words” and “the north-eastern west part / Of South citedin Hop on Pop Carolina,” and one of which from the latter location Gerald McGrew fantasizes about cap- ’im Seussian rendering of “him”in On turing for McGrew Zooin If I Ran the Zoo Beyond Zebra Ipswich Place at which stops are said to “I’m sorry.” Among the “simple words” be made along the transportation route of spoken by King Derwin, and about which it the creatures called High Gargel-orumin is said, “Maybe there was something magic On Beyond Zebra in those simple words”in Bartholomew and the Oobleck Irish ducks Creatures it is said Professor de Breeze has long attempted to teach “how India Among the places, cited as having to read Jivvanese”in Did I Ever Tell You been confirmed by Principal Grumm’s How Lucky You Are? research, where daisies it is said can growin Daisy-Head Mayzie is Verb used (as part of a sentence) in pro- viding examples of use of the letter I/iin Indianapolis Among the words the Cat in Dr. Seuss’s ABC the Hat says, “I can read . . . with my eyes tight shut!”in I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! Ish Creature that declares, “I have this dish / to help me wish.”in One Fish Two Fish ink Substance cited (“pink ink”) as being Red Fish Blue Fish what the creature called Yink “likes to drink”in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Ish wish dish Plate said by the creature Fish See also: think-proof ink named Ish to be used when making wishes in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish “In My Bureau Drawer” Title of a song in The Cat in the Hat Song Book Island of Gwark Place from which, as part of his fantasizing, Gerald McGrew intends to instruments, musical Among the things capture for McGrew Zoo the creature called about which information is to be provided Fizza-ma-Wizza-ma-Dillin If I Ran the Zoo by the volume’s purported authorin My Book About Me Island of Sala-ma-Sond Place of residence of Yertlein “Yertle the Turtle,” as part of interests Among the subjects about which Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories information is to be provided by the volume’s purported authorin My Book About Me Isn’t Characterization by Katroo’s Birthday Bird of what someone might be who had Internal Organs Olympics Competition at “never been born”in Happy Birthday to You! which Golden Years Clinic physicians are said last year to have “won fifteen gold it One of the examples of “Little words” medals, / nine silver, / six bronze”in citedin Hop on Pop You’re Only Old Once! Italy One of the countries about which the Iota Creature said to live in both “the Far narrator declares, indifferently, “Let the kids Western part / Of south-east North Dakota” get up”in I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today!
• 67 • ITCH jelly, strawberry
ITCH One of the letters of the extended Better Hunch suggested should join the nar- alphabet introduced by the narratorin On rator in going “to some real cool spot” to Beyond Zebra playin Hunches in Bunches Itch-a-pods Constantly moving creatures the Jane One of the names mentioned by name of which is cited as a use for the letter Marco when he declares dismissively of “A ITCH within the extended alphabet intro- reindeer and sleigh,” during the course of his duced by the narratorin On Beyond Zebra fantasizing, “Sayanyone could think of itchy Condition cited (as part of a sentence) that” in And to Think That I Saw It on Mul- in providing examples of use of the letter berry Street I/i in Dr. Seuss’s ABC Japan 1: Among the countries the worm, It-Kutch One of the creatures Gerald ridiculing the boastfulness of Mr. Rabbit and McGrew fantasizes about bringing back from Mr. Bear, says it has seen across, thus declar- Ka-Troo for McGrew Zooin If I Ran the Zoo ing possession of an ability of sight superior to their hearing and sense of smellin “The “It’s all my fault.” Among the “simple Big Brag,” as part of Yertle the Turtle and Other words” spoken by King Derwin, and about Stories 2: Among the places, cited as hav- which it is said, “Maybe there was something ing been confirmed by Principal Grumm’s magic in those simple words” in Bartholomew research, where daisies it is said can and the Oobleck growin Daisy-Head Mayzie Jack 1: One of the names mentioned by Japanese Nationality about which a ques- Marco when he declares dismissively of “A tion is askedin The Cat’s Quizzer reindeer and sleigh,” during the course of his fantasizing, “Sayanyone could think of Jawks, Sir One of Circus McGurkus’s that”in And to Think That I Saw It on Mul- Tournament Knightsin If I Ran the Circus berry Street 2: One of the seven Peeping Jay, Flannel-Wing Among the birds seen Brothersin The Seven Lady Godivas by Peter T. Hooper while searching for eggs, Jake, Uncle Individual cited (“waiting, but which it proved “weren’t laying that perhaps, for their Uncle Jake”) as a possible day”in Scrambled Eggs Super! reason for people being at the Waiting Placein Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Jedd Creature said to sleep on a bed made “from pom poms / He grows on his Jake the Pillow Snake Creature the Cat in head”in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book the Hat tells the young cat he will, if open- eyed, “learn about”in I Can Read with My Jeers, Sir One of Circus McGurkus’s Tour- Eyes Shut! nament Knights in If I Ran the Circus jam Among the words cited in providing Jeffrey One of the Fuddnuddler Brothers examples of use of the letter J/jin Dr. in Oh Say Can You Say? Seuss’s ABC jelly, strawberry Among the various kinds James Friend of the narrator’s, whom the and descriptions of fish (“Made of straw-
• 68 • jelly jar Jo-Jo
berry jelly”) Marco speculates he might the ideal Christmas present to be associated catchin McElligot’s Pool with it could, it is said, be Slim Jim Swim Finsin Oh Say Can You Say? See also: jelly jar Object cited (as part of a phrase) Sunny Jim in providing examples of use of the letter J/jin Dr. Seuss’s ABC Jipper One of the Fuddnuddler Brothers in Oh Say Can You Say? Jerry Jordan’s jelly jar Phrase cited in pro- viding examples of use of the letter J/jin Jivvanese Language it is said Professor de Dr. Seuss’s ABC Breeze has long attempted teaching “Irish ducks how to read”in Did I Ever Tell You Jertain Creature the narrator says he some- How Lucky You Are? times feels “quite certain” is to be found “in the curtain”in There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! Joats Creatures a family of which Gerald McGrew fantasizes about capturing at jet Among the means of conveyance sug- Motta-fa-Potta-fa-Pell for McGrew Zooin gested for departurein Marvin K. Mooney If I Ran the Zoo Will You Please Go Now! jobsk Seussian rendering of “job” (devised jibboo Creature about which is asked, to rhyme with “Tobsk,” “Nobsk,” and “Obsk,” “And / what would / you do / if you met / as well as with other adjacent Seussian “sk” a jibboo?”in Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! word-endings)in If I Ran the Zoo Jicker, Midwinter Rainstorm the narrator Joe 1: Character (together with Moe) cen- encountered while proceeding by footin I tral to questions askedin The Cat’s Quizzer Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew 2: Creature that when called on the tele- Jigger, Triple-Sling Yook combat mecha- phone says he cannot hearin One Fish Two nism said to have been created in response to Fish Red Fish Blue Fish 3: One of the names VanItch’s having destroyed Grandpa’s Snick- mentioned by Marco when he declares dis- Berry Switchin The Butter Battle Book missively of “A reindeer and sleigh,” during the course of his fantasizing, “Sayanyone Jigger-Rock Snatchem Zook combat mech- could think of that”in And to Think That I anism said to have been created in response Saw It on Mulberry Street to the Yooks’ development of the Triple-Sling Jiggerin The Butter Battle Book JOGG One of the letters of the extended alphabet introduced by the narratorin On Jill-ikka-Jast “A fleet-footed beast who can Beyond Zebra run like a deer,” riding on which Peter T. Hooper escaped when pursued by the bird Jogg-oons Creatures the name of which is called Bombastic Aghastin Scrambled cited as a use for the letter JOGG within the Eggs Super! extended alphabet introduced by the narra- torin On Beyond Zebra Jim 1: Among the names featured for use as part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Jo-Jo “Smallest of All” among the inhabi- Pop 2: Name which, if it is “your daddy’s,” tants of Who-ville, and the “one shirker” dis-
• 69 • Jordan, Jerry Katroo
covered by the Mayor during the “town’s Jungles of Hippo-no-Hungus Area from darkest hour”in Horton Hears a Who! which Gerald McGrew fantasizes about bringing back a flock of the creatures called Jordan, Jerry Name cited (as part of a Bippo-no-Bungus for McGrew Zooin If I phrase) in providing examples of use of the Ran the Zoo letter J/jin Dr. Seuss’s ABC Jungles of Jorn Place from which are said Jorn, Jungles of Place from which are said to come Circus McGurkus’s “horn-tooting to come Circus McGurkus’s “horn-tooting apes”in If I Ran the Circus apes”in If I Ran the Circus Kalamazoo Among the cities at which the joss sticks Objects central to a “Food Quiz” questionin The Cat’s Quizzer Circus Show exhibited Horton in Horton Hatches the Egg Jott, Juggling Circus McGurkus’s side- show creature it is said “can juggle some Kangaroo and kangaroos 1: Among the stuff / You might think he could not”in If I words cited in providing examples of use of Ran the Circus the letter K/k in Dr. Seuss’s ABC 2: Crea- tures (“a sour kangaroo” with a “young kan- Jounce Place at which stops are said to be garoo in her pouch”) incredulous that life made along the transportation route of the could exist on “a small speck of dust,” and creatures called High Gargel-orum in On which ultimately undertake to rope and cage Beyond Zebra Horton, and to boil his “small speck of dust” Jud One of the Fuddnuddler Brothersin in Beezle-Nut oil in Horton Hears a Who! Oh Say Can You Say? kangaroo collars What the Cat in the Hat Juggling Jott Circus McGurkus’s side-show tells the young cat he might, if open-eyed, creature it is said “can juggle some stuff / learn “how to make”in I Can Read with My You might think he could not”in If I Ran Eyes Shut! the Circus Kartoom Place where, within a cave, is juice See: Beezle-Nut oil or juice; goose said to live the creature called Natch, which juice; moose juice Gerald McGrew fantasizes about capturing for McGrew Zooin If I Ran the Zoo jump Among the words featured for use as part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop Ka-Troo Place from which Gerald McGrew fantasizes about bringing back several crea- jumping Among the things about which tures (It-Kutch, Nerd, Nerkle, Preep, Proo, questions are askedin The Cat’s Quizzer and Seersucker) for McGrew Zooin If I Ran Jungle, Birthday Flower Place at Katroo the Zoo said to have “The best-sniffing flowers that Katroo Setting of the story, and place anyone grows”in Happy Birthday to You! identified as where “They sure know how to Jungle of Nool Setting of the storyin say ‘Happy Birthday to You!’”in Happy Horton Hears a Who! Birthday to You!
• 70 • Katroo Happy Birthday . . . Key-Slapping Slippard
Katroo Happy Birthday Asso-see-eye-ation Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories Organization said to have responsibility for Kaverns of Krock Place where “a left sock” the training of Birthday Birds in Happy might, it is suggested, be “left behind by Birthday to You! mistake”in Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky Katta-ma-Side Vessel (“sort of a boat made You Are? of sea-leopard’s hide”) used by Peter T. Keck, County of Place from which the Hooper’s friends from near Fa-Zoal in news of the yawning bug “By the name of Scrambled Eggs Super! Van Vleck” was receivedin Dr. Seuss’s Katz, Blooie Tail-bearer to Hooie Katzin Sleep Book “King Looie Katz,” as part of I Can Lick 30 keen-shooter, mean-shooter, bean shooter Tigers Today! and Other Stories bugs Characterization of the creatures Katz, Chooie Tail-bearer to Kooie Katzin called Chuggs, which Gerald McGrew fanta- “King Looie Katz,” as part of I Can Lick 30 sizes about capturing for McGrew Zoo in Tigers Today! and Other Stories If I Ran the Zoo Katz, Fooie Tail-bearer to King Looie Katz Keeper Title of the zoo superintendent in in “King Looie Katz,” as part of I Can Lick If I Ran the Zoo See also: New Keeper 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories Keeper of the King’s Records Title of Sir Alaricin The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins Katz, Hooie Tail-bearer to Chooie Katzin “King Looie Katz,” as part of I Can Lick 30 kelly green Description of the pill of which Tigers Today! and Other Stories it is said by the Pill Drill voice, “I take . . . / before each meal and in between.” in You’re Katz, Kooie Tail-bearer to Fooie Katz in Only Old Once! “King Looie Katz,”as part of I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories kerchoo Sneeze cited (as part of a phrase) in providing examples of use of the letter Katz, Looie King of Katzen-stein in “King K/kin Dr. Seuss’s ABC See also: “Ah-a-a- Looie Katz,” as part of I Can Lick 30 Tigers a-a-a-h... Choo”; king’s kerchoo Today! and Other Stories kettle Object cited (as part of a sentence) in Katz, Prooie Tail-bearer to Blooie Katz in providing examples of use of the letter “King Looie Katz,” as part of I Can Lick 30 K/kin Dr. Seuss’s ABC Tigers Today! and Other Stories keys, back door Among the things the girl Katzen-bein, Zooie “The last, last cat of all narrator cites by namein The Shape of Me the cats / That lived in Katzen-stein,” and and Other Stuff central to the story’s climaxin “King Looie Key-Slapping Slippard Creature that pre- Katz,” as part of I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! vented the unlocking of the entryway and Other Stories (“There is only one door. . . .”) to the City of Katzen-stein Kingdom that is the setting of Solla Sollewin I Had Trouble in Getting to the storyin “King Looie Katz,” as part of I Solla Sollew
• 71 • Kick a kettle. klammering
Kick a kettle. Sentence cited in providing king’s kerchoo Phrase cited in providing examples of use of the letter K/kin Dr. examples of use of the letter K/kin Dr. Seuss’s ABC Seuss’s ABC Kick-a-Poo Kid Yook gun said to have King’s Own Guards Protective unit of been created in response to the Zooks’ devel- King Derwinin The 500 Hats of Bartholomew opment of the Jigger-Rock Snatchemin The Cubbins Butter Battle Book King’s Records, Keeper of the Title of Sir Kick-a-Poo Spaniel Characterization of the Alaricin The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins dog named Daniel, said to have been trained King Yertle Titular designation of the to carry the Yooks’ Kick-a-Poo Kid in The Butter Battle Book story’s principal character, Yertle the Turtle in “Yertle the Turtle,” as part of Yertle the Tur- Kid 1: Colloquial form of address to the tle and Other Stories readerin Oh, the Places You’ll Go! 2: One of several Circus McGurkus titles accorded kiss, goldfish Among the things Mr. Brown “can go like,” making the sound Mr. Sneelock in If I Ran the Circus See also: Kick-a-Poo Kid “pip” in Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? kind that likes flowers Among the various Kitchen, Cat Area where the Patrol Cats’ sorts and descriptions of fish Marco specu- meals are prepared in The King’s Stilts lates he might catch in McElligot’s Pool kite and kites 1: Among the things cited King See: Birtram, King; Derwin, King; (“waiting for wind to fly a kite”) as reasons Turtle King for people being at the Waiting Place in Oh, the Places You’ll Go! 2: Among the words Kingdom of Binn Setting of the story in cited in providing examples of use of the let- The King’s Stilts ter K/kin Dr. Seuss’s ABC 3: Object about Kingdom of Didd 1: Setting of the storyin which is asked, “Did you ever / fly a kite / Bartholomew and the Oobleck 2: Setting of the in bed?”in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue storyin The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins Fish 4: Among the things cited as associ- ated with a state of being “up” in Great Day “King Looie Katz” Title of a story as part for Up 5: Objects said to have been flown of I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories within the house by Thing One and Thing King of Katzen-stein Title of Looie Katz Two, causing turmoil and disorderin The in “King Looie Katz,” as part of I Can Lick 30 Cat in the Hat Tigers Today! and Other Stories Kitten Among the words cited in provid- King of the Mud Designation of King Yer- ing examples of use of the letter K/kin tle’s ultimate statusin “Yertle the Turtle,” Dr. Seuss’s ABC as part of Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories klammering Seussian expression, used in kings Male sovereigns about whom a conjunction with “yammering” and “ham- question is askedin The Cat’s Quizzer mering,” to describe the beaks of the birds
• 72 • Klay Kwigger
that attacked Ali during his effort to secure Jawks, Sir Jeers, and Sir Vector) that it is said for Peter T. Hooper a Mt. Strookoo Cuckoo “Stage a roust-about-joust with their boxing eggin Scrambled Eggs Super! glove spears”in If I Ran the Circus Klay One of the cries of exhortation from knock Sound made by Mr. Brown, “like a the magicians’ incantationsin The 500 Hats hand on a door”in Mr. Brown Can Moo! of Bartholomew Cubbins Can You? klonked Among the sounds made by knots One of the subjects (“tying knots / Sylvester McMonkey McBean’s “very pecu- In neckerchiefs and noodles”) taught by Miss liar machine” for adding stars to belliesin Twining at Diffendoofer Schoolin Hooray “The Sneetches,” as part of The Sneetches and for Diffendoofer Day! Other Stories Knox, Mr. Creature central (together with Klopfers, Hooded Creatures said to pro- Mr. Fox) to the overall presentation of vide transportation to Katroo’s Birthday tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks Pal-alacein Happy Birthday to You! Knox, Nixie Name cited in providing an klopp Sound made by Mr. Brown, “like example of where it “is very useful” to have horse feet” in Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? the letter X/xin Dr. Seuss’s ABC Klotz Creature described as having “lots of Krauss, Kitty O’Sullivan Among the per- black dots” in Oh Say Can You Say? sons it is suggested one “can think klunker-klunk Designation of a product of about”in Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! the Thinker-Upper’s action in “The Glunk Krock, Kaverns of Place where “a left That Got Thunk,” as part of I Can Lick 30 sock” might, it is suggested, be “left behind Tigers Today! and Other Stories by mistake”in Did I Ever Tell You How klupp-klupp and klupped Characterization Lucky You Are? of the sound and of the making of the sound Krox, Mr. and Mrs. J. Carmichael Couple of VanItch’s footsteps as he approached said to have a three-handed clock that “does Grandpa for their showdown on the Wall one very slick trick”in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book in The Butter Battle Book Krupp, Castle of Place from which news is knees 1: Among the things (“knees,” as said to have been received “That the lights well as “knees on trees”) the Cat in the Hat are all out and the drawbridge is up”in I Can Read says, “You can read about . . .” in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book with My Eyes Shut! 2: Among the things (“of people, bees and chimpanzees”) it is said Kweet Birds said to lay “the world’s sweet- singing is “good for”in “Let Us All Sing,” est eggs,” several of which were “nabbed” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book by Peter T. Hooperin Scrambled Eggs Super! Knights, Tournament Designation of Cir- Kwigger Bird, as found by Peter T. Hooper, cus McGurkus’s apes (Sir Beers, Sir Bopps, the eggs of which are said to be “as big as a Sir Dawkins, Sir Hawkins, Sir Hector, Sir pin head, no bigger”in Scrambled Eggs Super!
• 73 • Kwong, Long-Legger left
Kwong, Long-Legger Bird seen by Peter T. land Part of the overall domain, together Hooper and described by him as “built just a with the sea, that King Yertle ultimately little bit wrong,” necessitating the laying of declares has become his, as “the world’s her eggs “twenty feet in the air”in Scram- highest turtle”in “Yertle the Turtle,” as bled Eggs Super! part of Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories ladders Among the things cited as associ- Lass-a-lack Among the birds seen by Peter ated with a state of being “up”in Great Day T. Hooper while searching for eggs, but which for Up it proved “weren’t laying that day”in ladies, lords and Occupants of bedrooms Scrambled Eggs Super! in King Derwin’s palace, who were said to Laugh See: No Laugh Race”, “The be frightened by the oobleckin Bartholomew laughing 1: Action central to a question and the Oobleck about the game Stare-Eyesin The Cat’s Lady See: Arabella, Lady; Clementina, Quizzer 2: Subject taught by Miss Fribble at Lady; Dorcas J., Lady; Godiva, Lady; Diffendoofer Schoolin Hooray for Diffen- Gussie, Lady; Hedwig, Lady; Lulu, Lady; doofer Day! Mitzi, Lady laughter Action the avoidance of which is Lady of Research Characterization of Lady the subject of the songin “The No Laugh Dorcas J. in The Seven Lady Godivas Race,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book Lake Erie Body of water understood by the Laundress, Royal Member of King Derwin’s Lorax to be equally polluted as “the pond palace staff found to be “stuck tight to the where the Humming-Fish hummed” origi- clothesline” by the oobleckin Bartholomew nally in a line (“I hear things are just as bad and the Oobleck up in Lake Erie.”) subsequently removed from The Lorax lava Among the things about which ques- tions are askedin The Cat’s Quizzer lakes Among the words featured as part of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks Lazy lion licks a lollipop. Sentence cited in providing examples of use of the letter Lake Winna-Bango Setting of the story in L/lin Dr. Seuss’s ABC Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose leap, lopulous Characterization of lamb chops Among the foods the singer Grandpa’s manner of mounting the Wall, says he/she could eat in “The Super- in preparation for declaring his intention Supper March,” as part of The Cat in the Hat of destroying the Zooksin The Butter Song Book Battle Book lame Among the words featured as part of left 1: One of the directions it is suggested tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks one might “think,” as well also as about the lamp Place in which, the narrator says, a reason the creatures called beft “always go” creature called Zamp is presentin There’s a that directionin Oh, the Thinks You Can Wocket in My Pocket! Think! 2: One of the particularities (“Left
• 74 • left eye lion’s tail
foot”) of the subject coveredin The Foot Book Life-Risking-Track Raceway said to be used by Circus McGurkus’s Colliding Collu- left eye Alternative means the Cat in the sionsin If I Ran the Circus Hat says he “can read with”in I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! Lifted Lorax Name given the thoroughfare (Street of the Lifted Lorax) that leads to the Left leg Phrase cited in providing examples place where, it is said, “if you look deep of use of the letter L/lin Dr. Seuss’s ABC enough you can still see, today, / where the left sock Garment referred to as “left be- Lorax once stood”in The Lorax hind by mistake” at the Kaverns of Krock in Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? light Condition of illumination it is sug- gested one can “Think of”in Oh, the Thinks Left-Sock Thievers”, “The Title of a song You Can Think! See also: Bright Dwight in The Cat in the Hat Song Book Bird-Flight Night-Sight Light leg and legs 1: Limb cited (as part of a lightning Among the things Mr. Brown phrase) in providing examples of use of the “can go like,” making the sound “splatt”in letter L/lin Dr. Seuss’s ABC 2: Limbs cen- Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? tral to the subject of the songin “Hurry Hurry Hurry!,” as part of The Cat in the Hat likes Among the words featured as part of Song Book 3: Among the parts (together tongue-twisting texts in Fox in Socks with “top-knot” and “his tail”) of “a bug liking Attitude questions about which (lik- called the Sneggs” that were, it is suggested, ing and/or eating), regarding the food left to be supplied in I Can Draw It Myself treated of, are central to the book’s dialogue See also: bees’ legs in Green Eggs and Ham leopard Animal involved in one of the sub- Lincoln, Abraham Among the persons jects (“how to put a saddle / On a lizard or a about whom questions are askedin leopard”) taught by Miss Vining at Diffendoo- The Cat’s Quizzer fer Schoolin Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! line Among the forms (“a red line”) that Lerkim Hideaway of the Once-ler, “on top were, it is suggested, left to be supplied in I of his store” in The Lorax Can Draw It Myself “Let Us All Sing” Title of a songin The lion 1: Creature cited (as part of a sentence) Cat in the Hat Song Book in providing examples of use of the letter L/l ’leven Seussian rendering of “eleven”in in Dr. Seuss’s ABC 2: Creature, possessing Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose “ten feet, at least,” Gerald McGrew fantasizes about having at McGrew Zooin If I Ran the licks 1: Action cited (as part of a sentence) Zoo in providing examples of use of the letter L/lin Dr. Seuss’s ABC 2: Among the lion’s tail Among the means of conveyance words featured as part of tongue-twisting (“go / by lion’s tail”) suggested for departure textsin Fox in Socks in Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!
• 75 • lion who’s partly . . . Long-Legger Kwong
lion who’s partly a trout Creature it is said Lolla-Lee-Lou, Miss “Fancy young birdie” will be a feature of Circus McGurkus’s of whom Gertrude McFuzz was jealous, Parade-of-Paradesin If I Ran the Circus because she had a two-feathered tailin “Gertrude McFuzz,” as part of Yertle the Tur- lips Among the things the boy narrator cites tle and Other Stories by namein The Shape of Me and Other Stuff lollipop and lollipops 1: Among the things listening Subject taught by Miss Dobble at cited as pertaining to an arithmetic calcula- Diffendoofer Schoolin Hooray for Diffen- tionin “I Can Figure Figures,” as part of doofer Day! The Cat in the Hat Song Book 2: Object cited Little Cat A through Little Cat Z Helpers (as part of a sentence) in providing examples appearing successively from the Big Cat’s hat of use of the letter L/lin Dr. Seuss’s ABC and from the hats of one another during the London One of the cities about which the course of the spot-removal actions central to narrator declares, indifferently, “Let the kids the storyin The Cat in the Hat Comes Back! get up”in I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! Little Lola Lopp Phrase cited in providing long Among the words featured for use as examples of use of the letter L/lin Dr. part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop Seuss’s ABC long curly nose Among the various kinds Liz Character being addressed by Peter T. and descriptions of fish (“With a long curly Hooperin Scrambled Eggs Super! nose”) Marco speculates he might catchin lizard Animal involved in one of the subjects McElligot’s Pool (“how to put a saddle / On a lizard or a leop- longests Seussian designation expressing ard”) taught by Miss Vining at Diffendoofer categories of the greatest extent of achieve- Schoolin Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! ment, regarding subjects about which infor- Lobster Aquatic creature Marco speculates mation is to be provided by the volume’s he might catchin McElligot’s Pool purported author (“My longest . . .”)in My Book About Me location Wagon position or situation central to Lady Dorcas J.’s Horse Truth discovery: long flat Description of the pill of which it “Don’t put the cart before the horse.”in is said by the Pill Drill voice, “This . . . one is The Seven Lady Godivas what I take / if I should die before I wake.” in You’re Only Old Once! lock Action cited within Lady Hedwig’s Horse Truth discovery: “Don’t lock the barn long flowing whiskers Among the various door after the horse has been stolen!”in kinds and descriptions of fish (“With long The Seven Lady Godivas flowing whiskers”) Marco speculates he might catchin McElligot’s Pool loganberry-colored Description of the pills of which it is said by the Pill Drill voice, “. . . Long-Legger Kwong Bird seen by Peter T. I take for early morning chills.”in You’re Hooper and described by him as “built just a Only Old Once! little bit wrong,” necessitating the laying of
• 76 • Lopp, Lola macaroni
her eggs “twenty feet in the air”in Scram- lucky 1: Circumstance associated with bled Eggs Super! Lady Lulu’s Horse Truth discovery: “horse- shoes are lucky”in The Seven Lady Godivas Lopp, Lola Name cited (as part of a phrase) 2: Condition constituting the context of the in providing examples of use of the letter story’s presentationin Did I Ever Tell You L/lin Dr. Seuss’s ABC How Lucky You Are? lopulous leap Characterization of Grandpa’s Lud One of the Fuddnuddler Brothersin manner of mounting the Wall, in preparation Oh Say Can You Say? for declaring his intention of destroying the Zooksin The Butter Battle Book “Lullaby for Mr. Benjamin B. Bickelbaum” Lorax Creature central to the story, and Title of a song in The Cat in the Hat Song Book who repeatedly declares, “I speak for the Lulu, Lady One of Lord Godiva’s daugh- trees.” in The Lorax tersin The Seven Lady Godivas Lord See: Droon, Lord; Godiva, Lord lunch 1: Meal the prospective partaking of lords and ladies Occupants of bedrooms in which is cited by the Cat in the Hat as the King Derwin’s palace, who were said to be reason for delaying contention with the final frightened by the oobleckin Bartholomew tiger addressed in “I Can Lick 30 Tigers and the Oobleck Today!,” as part of I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories 2: Meal partaken of by the loud How the narrator characterizes days narrator when he “finally followed a Munch as being (together with “mad”) on “Black Hunch, / the best hunch of the bunch”in Days” in My Many Colored Days Hunches in Bunches 3: Meal prepared “mer- love Affection Mayzie McGrew, after leav- rily” by the three Diffendoofer School cooks ing her family and friends, felt she had lost “all named McMunch” in Hooray for Dif- (“I can never go home. Nobody loves me.”) fendoofer Day! See also: Birthday Lunch in Daisy-Head Mayzie Lunks Creatures a family of which Gerald low 1: Among the various kinds and McGrew fantasizes about capturing from descriptions of creatures citedin One Fish “the Wilds of Nantucket” for McGrew Zoo Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish 2: One of the in If I Ran the Zoo contexts (“Low foot”) of the subject Lurch 1: Creature it is said will be carried coveredin The Foot Book 3: One of the by a Flummox, as part of Circus McGurkus’s levels it is suggested one might “think”in Parade-of-Paradesin If I Ran the Circus Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! 2: Vegetation, constituting a “prickle-ly Lowe, Mr. Principal at Diffendoofer perch,” from which it is said “You’ll be left” Schoolin Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! hangingin Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Luck, Luke Character that relates to a seg- macaroni Among the foods about which ment of the presentation of tongue-twisting “Food Quiz” questions are askedin The textsin Fox in Socks Cat’s Quizzer
• 77 • machines marshmallows
machines Among the things the boy narra- tion “Malber, Balber, Tidder, Tudd”in The tor cites by namein The Shape of Me and 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins Other Stuff See also: Bad-Animal-Catch- man, toy Among the objects involved in the ing-Machine; Star-Off Machine Cat’s Up-up-up gamein The Cat in the Hat Mack “Plain little turtle” situated at the Manager Title cited for “G. McGrew” on an bottom of King Yertle’s towering turtle- entrance-archway identification of the “City upon-turtle thronein “Yertle the Turtle,” as Zoo”in If I Ran the Zoo part of Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories mandolin, Schwinn Musical instrument of mackerel Fish referred to disdainfully by extraordinary features, said to be possessed Marcoin McElligot’s Pool by Gretchen von Schwinnin Oh Say Can mad 1: Among the emotions the Cat in the You Say? Hat tells the young cat, “You can learn about many One of the contexts (“many, many . . .”in I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! 2: feet”) of the subject coveredin The Foot Book How the narrator characterizes days as being (together with “loud”) on “Black Days”in Many mumbling mice are making mid- My Many Colored Days night music in the moonlight . . . Sentence cited in providing examples of use of the let- magician and magicians 1: One of the per- ter M/min Dr. Seuss’s ABC sons (“Doing tricks”) who is part of Marco’s fantasizingin And to Think That I Saw It on Marchers, To-and-Fro Circus McGurkus Mulberry Street 2: Wizards of King Der- creatures said to “march in five layers” (“The win’s courtin Bartholomew and the Oobleck Fros march on Tos / And the Tos march on 3: Wizards of King Derwin’s courtin The Fros.”)in If I Ran the Circus 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins Marco 1: Narrator and the principal char- mail 1: Among the means of conveyance acter of the storyin And to Think That I Saw (“go by mail”) suggested for departurein It on Mulberry Street 2: Principal character Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! of the story, whose speculations are the basis 2: Among the things cited (“Waiting for . . . of its developmentin McElligot’s Pool the mail to come”) as reasons for people Marines, United States Among the groups being at the Waiting Placein Oh, the Places (“You can bring in the United States Mar- You’ll Go! ines!”) the narrator says will not cause him Maine One of the states about which the to leave his bedin I Am NOT Going to Get narrator declares, indifferently, “Let the kids Up Today! get up”in I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! Marshmallow Dip One of the confections making Verb used (as part of sentence) in about the offering of which the narrator providing examples of use of the letter M/m declares, “You won’t get me up”in I Am in Dr. Seuss’s ABC See also: music making NOT Going to Get Up Today! Malber Element of the magicians’ incanta- marshmallows Among the things the girl
• 78 • Marvin O’Gravel . . . McGrew, Mr.
narrator cites by namein The Shape of Me Mayzie 1: “Lazy bird” that persuades Hor- and Other Stuff ton to take over sitting on her nest and eggin Horton Hatches the Egg 2: Principal Marvin O’Gravel Balloon Face Among the character (Mayzie McGrew) of the storyin names it is said Mrs. McCave often wishes Daisy-Head Mayzie she had given one of her “twenty-three Daves”in “Too Many Daves,” as part of Mazurka, tizzle-topped Tufted Creature The Sneetches and Other Stories (“A kind of canary with quite a tall throat”) Gerald McGrew fantasizes about bringing Massachusetts One of the states about back from the island of Yerka for McGrew which the narrator declares, indifferently, Zooin If I Ran the Zoo “Let the kids get up”in I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! McBean, Sylvester McMonkey Fix-it-Up Chappie that comes to relate to the “trou- mawtch Seussian rendering of “much” bles” between the Plain-Belly and Star-Belly (devised to rhyme with “watch”) in Did I Sneetchesin “The Sneetches,” as part of Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? The Sneetches and Other Stories Max Dog of the Grinch, which was dis- McCave, Mrs. Mother of twenty-three guised as a reindeer for the Grinch’s Christ- sons, all having the given name Davein mas Eve descent upon Who-villein How the “Too Many Daves,” as part of The Sneetches Grinch Stole Christmas and Other Stories May fifteenth Date (“the fifteenth of May”) McElligot’s Pool Fishing site of Marco and on which Horton first “heard a small noise” the setting of his speculationsin McElligot’s that came from “a small speck of dust blow- Pool ing past through the air” in Horton Hears McFuzz, Gertrude Principal character, “a a Who! girl-bird” whose concern about the nature of May 15, 1066 Date of Lord Godiva’s in- her tail is central to the story’s development tended departure for the Battle of Hastings in “Gertrude McFuzz,” as part of Yertle the and also that of his deathin The Seven Lady Turtle and Other Stories Godivas McGrew, Dr. One of the Golden Years Clinic physicians about whom it is predicted “all . . . Mayor 1: City official who is present on a reviewing stand, as part of Marco’s fantasiz- will prescribe a prescription for you” in ingin And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry You’re Only Old Once! Street 2: City official who proposed to solve McGrew, Gerald Narrator and the princi- Mayzie McGrew’s problem by enforcing the pal character of the storyin If I Ran the Zoo law (“simple and sound”) that “Daisies McGrew, Mayzie Principal character of the belong and should stay in the ground.” in Daisy-Head Mayzie 3: Official of Who-ville story in Daisy-Head Mayzie with whom Horton conversesin Horton McGrew, Mr. Man for whom, it is sug- Hears a Who! gested, whiskers and “some eyebrows and
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eyelashes, too” were left to be suppliedin I Memphis, Tennessee One of the cities Can Draw It Myself about which the narrator declares, indiffer- McGrew, Mr. and Mrs. Parents of Mayzie ently, “Let the kids get up” in I Am NOT McGrewin Daisy-Head Mayzie Going to Get Up Today! McGrewses Seussian rendering of “Mc- Me Myself 1: Purported author of the Grews” (devised to rhyme with “chooses”) book (which is said to have been created in If I Ran the Zoo “with a little help from my friend Dr. Seuss”) in I Can Draw It Myself 2: Purported McGrew Zoo Designation of the establish- author of the book (which is said to have ment Gerald McGrew fantasizes about creat- been created “with a little help from my ing in If I Ran the Zoo friends Dr. Seuss and Roy McKie”)in My McGuire, Dr. One of the Golden Years Clinic Book About Me physicians about whom it is predicted “all men Among the persons cited as associ- . . . will prescribe a prescription for you” in ated with a state of being “up”in Great Day You’re Only Old Once! for Up See also: snow men; Wise Men McGurk, Morris Narrator and the principal Mercedd Town, “Way out in the west,” character of the story in If I Ran the Circus where the Hinkle-Horn Honking Club is McMunch Name of all three of the cooks at locatedin Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book Diffendoofer School who, the narrator says, Merry Christmas Mush Food cited as once “merrily prepare our lunch” while singing a having been eaten at “a Christmas brunch” song “Not too short and not too long” in disappointinglyin Oh Say Can You Say? Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! meth Seussian rendering of “mess” McPhail, Snorter Snorer said to be “loud- (devised to rhyme with “breath”)in “The est of all,” and who “snores with his head in Glunk That Got Thunk,” as part of I Can Lick a three-gallon pail” in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories McPherson, Dr. One of the Golden Years Meyers, Butch Driver of the Happy Way Clinic physicians about whom it is predicted Busin I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew “all . . . will prescribe a prescription for you”in You’re Only Old Once! mice 1: Among the things the boy narrator cites by namein The Shape of Me and Other me 1: Among the words featured for use Stuff 2: Among the things (“mice,” as well as part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on as “Mice on ice” and “ice on mice”) the Cat in Pop 2: Boy narrator, as cited by himself in the Hat tells the young cat, “You can learn The Shape of Me and Other Stuff 3: Designa- about . . .”in I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! tion of the narrator, by himself, when declar- 3: Among Thidwick’s antler-riding ing there will be “No up” for him (“I’m creatures in Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose sleeping in today.”) in Great Day for Up 4: Animals cited (as part of a sentence) in measles Disease Lord Droon falsely ascribes providing examples of use of the letter to Ericin The King’s Stilts M/min Dr. Seuss’s ABC 5: Animals that
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(together with owls and the Midwinter the singer says he/she could eatin “The Jicker’s “horrible howls”) kept the narrator Super-Supper March,” as part of The Cat in awakein I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla the Hat Song Book Sollew Miss See: Becker, Miss; Bonkers, Miss; midnight Time cited (as part of a sentence) Clotte, Miss; Dobble, Miss; Fribble, Miss; in providing examples of use of the letter Fuddle-dee-Duddle, Miss; Lolla-Lee-Lou, M/min Dr. Seuss’s ABC Miss; Quibble, Miss; Sneetcher, Miss; Twin- ing, Miss; Vining, Miss; Wobble, Miss Midsummer’s Day, August 1073 Date on which Lady Mitzi received Peeping Jack’s Mississippi Among the words the Cat in letterin The Seven Lady Godivas the Hat says, “I can read . . . with my eyes tight shut!”in I Can Read with My Eyes Midwinter Jicker Rainstorm the narrator Shut! encountered while proceeding by footin I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew Missouri Among the places, cited as hav- ing been confirmed by Principal Grumm’s miff-muffered moof Fabric from which the research, where daisies it is said can grow Once-ler, it is said, “makes his own in Daisy-Head Mayzie clothes”in The Lorax mista-cuff One of the conjuring words mighty nice Phrase cited in providing from the magicians’ incantation containing examples of use of the letter M/min the line “Fista, wista, mista-cuff”in Dr. Seuss’s ABC Bartholomew and the Oobleck Mike Creature associated with the bicycle Mr. See: Bear, Mr.; Bickelbaum, Mr. Ben- “made for three”in One Fish Two Fish Red jamin B.; Bix, Mr.; Black, Mr.; Blinn, Mr.; Fish Blue Fish Breeze, Mr.; Brown, Mr.; Fox, Mr.; Grumm, milk Fluid used to transfer pink stains dur- Mr. Gregory; Gump, Mr.; Knox, Mr.; Krox, ing the course of spot-removal actions cen- Mr. and Mrs. J. Carmichael; Lowe, Mr.; tral to the story’s developmentin The Cat in McGrew, Mr.; McGrew, Mr. and Mrs.; the Hat Comes Back! See also: butterfly milk Plunger, Mr.; Potter, Mr.; Rabbit, Mr.; Snee- milk on a dish Among the objects involved lock, Mr. in the Cat’s Up-up-up gamein The Cat in Mitzi, Lady One of Lord Godiva’s daugh- the Hat tersin The Seven Lady Godivas mind Mental facility the narrator’s inabil- mixed-up Among the classifications of ity to “make up” is central to the story’s cov- days citedin My Many Colored Days eragein Hunches in Bunches Miz Yookie-Ann Sue Member of the But- mind-maker-upper Seussian expression ter-Up Band said to have been its Chief of “one who decides”in Oh, the Places Drum Majorettein The Butter Battle Book You’ll Go! mobsk Seussian rendering of “mob” (de- mish mash, huckleberry Among the foods vised to rhyme with “Tobsk,” “Nobsk,” and
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“Obsk,” as well as with other adjacent Seuss- moose 1: Among the creatures said to be ian “sk” word-endings)in If I Ran the Zoo asleepin Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book 2: Animals a “huge herd” of which lives at Lake Winna- Moe Character (together with Joe) central Bango, and one of which, named Thidwick, to questions askedin The Cat’s Quizzer is the principal character of the storyin monkeys Wickersham Brothers, who are Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose incredulous that life could exist on “a small moose-hair nest Home built in Thidwick’s speck of dust”in Horton Hears a Who! antlers by a Zinn-a-zu Birdin Thidwick the moo Sound made by Mr. Brown, “like a Big-Hearted Moose cow”in Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? moose juice Substance referred to as perti- moof, miff-muffered Fabric from which nent to both “moose dreams” and “goose the Once-ler, it is said, “makes his own dreams,” but of which it is said, “. . . it isn’t clothes”in The Lorax too good when a moose and a goose / Start dreaming they’re drinking the other one’s Moo-Lacka-Moo Mysterious substance with which the Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo was juice.” in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book said by the Chief Yookeroo to be filledin moose-moss Forage of the moose herd at The Butter Battle Book Lake Winna-Bangoin Thidwick the Big- moon and moons 1: Among the things Hearted Moose about which questions are askedin The Mop-Noodled Finch Among the birds Cat’s Quizzer 2: Object that King Yertle seen by Peter T. Hooper while searching for angrily realizes, near the story’s climax, “dares eggs, but which it proved “weren’t laying to be higher than Yertle the King”in “Yertle that day”in Scrambled Eggs Super! the Turtle,” as part of Yertle the Turtle and more One of the contexts (“More and more Other Stories 3: Among the objects (“pink feet”) of the subject coveredin The Foot Book moons”) that were, it is suggested, left to be suppliedin I Can Draw It Myself See also: morning One of the contexts (“Feet in the Moon Face morning”) of the subject coveredin The Foot Book Mooney, Marvin K. Character being addressedin Marvin K. Mooney Will You mos-keedle Insect species (a Seussian vari- Please Go Now! ety of mosquito) to which the creature called Sneedle is said to belongin On Beyond Moon Face Among the names it is said Zebra Mrs. McCave often wishes she had given one of her “twenty-three Daves”in “Too Many Motel, Zwieback Hostelry of which it is Daves,” as part of The Sneetches and Other said “people don’t usually sleep there too Stories well”in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book moonlight Condition of illumination cited mother 1: Among the words featured for (as part of a sentence) in providing examples use as part of a phrase or sentencein Hop of use of the letter M/min Dr. Seuss’s ABC on Pop 2: Parent (“out of the house / For
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the day”) of the two children central to the Mt. Zorn Site at Katroo from which, it is storyin The Cat in the Hat 3: Parent said, the Birthday Horn is playedin Happy (“Down to the town for the day”) of the two Birthday to You! children central to the storyin The Cat in the mouse 1: Among the animals Ned com- Hat Comes Back! 4: Parent the Glunk calls on the “tele-foam”in “The Glunk That Got plains about having in his bed in One Fish 2: Thunk,” as part of I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Among the and Other Stories creatures asked about, as possibly being one to be accompanied by in liking and/or eat- Moth-Watching Sneth Bird “so big she ing the food treated ofin Green Eggs and scares people to death,” the egg of which Ham 3: Among the words featured for use was secured by Peter T. Hooperin Scram- as part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on bled Eggs Super! Pop 4: Creature said to have cut the wire, Motta-fa-Potta-fa-Pell Country in which thereby preventing Joe from being able to Gerald McGrew, as part of his fantasizing, hear when he is called on the telephone in intends to capture creatures for McGrew One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Zoo in If I Ran the Zoo movement What the narrator says does not Mountain Neeka-tave, Mystic Location of occur (“nothing moves today”) on a “Gray the “secret cave” of King Derwin’s magicians Day”in My Many Colored Days in Bartholomew and the Oobleck Mrs. See: Brown, Mrs.; Fox, Mrs.; Krox, mountains 1: Among the places referred Mr. and Mrs. J. Carmichael; McCave, Mrs.; to by Marco during his speculationsin McGrew, Mr. and Mrs.; Umbroso, Mrs. McElligot’s Pool 2: Among the things the girl narrator cites by namein The Shape of much-much and muchly Seussian expres- Me and Other Stuff sions (together with “ever so much-much,” “ever so muchly,” “muchly more-more- Mountains of Tobsk Area, as part of more,” “muchly much-much,” and “muchly Gerald McGrew’s fantasizing, said to be the much-much more”) of enhanced degreein habitat (“Near the River of Nobsk”) of the Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? creature called Obskin If I Ran the Zoo Mud Name it is said will, if he sneezes, be Mt. Crumpit Place to the top of which the given to “poor little Lud,” located at the bot- Grinch went with his plunder upon comple- tom of the pile of Fuddnuddler Brothersin tion of his Christmas Eve descent upon Who- Oh Say Can You Say? villein How the Grinch Stole Christmas Mt. Dill-ma-dilts Land mass suggested Mud, King of the Designation of King Yer- as one appropriate for scalingin Great Day tle’s ultimate status in “Yertle the Turtle,” for Up as part of Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories Mt. Strookoo Cuckoo Bird on Mt. Strookoo muddle and muddled Among the words an egg of which was secured by Ali for Peter featured as part of tongue-twisting textsin T. Hooperin Scrambled Eggs Super! Fox in Socks
• 83 • muddle-dee-puddles music making
muddle-dee-puddles Small pools from Munch Hunch Creature-represented which Miss Fuddle-dee-Duddle’s tail is said impulse the narrator says he “finally fol- to be kept by “helpers” from making any lowed”in Hunches in Bunches contactin On Beyond Zebra Mupp, Chippendale Creature that is said muff One of the conjuring words from the to bite its tail “every night before shutting magicians’ incantation beginning “Shuffle, his eyes”in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book duffle, muzzle, muff”in Bartholomew and the Oobleck See also: Soggy Muff murky-mooshy Characterization of the narrator’s state of mind, as evaluated and Muffler Repair, Spleen Readjustment and defined by an unidentified voicein Hunches Medical specialty of the Golden Years in Bunches Clinicin You’re Only Old Once! Mush, Merry Christmas Food cited as Mulberry Street Thoroughfare along once having been eaten at “a Christmas which Marco walks, going to and from brunch” disappointinglyin Oh Say Can school, and the setting of his fantasizing the You Say? details of “a story that no one can beat”in And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street mush-mush, choc’late Among the foods the singer says he/she could eatin “The mule Among the things King Yertle de- Super-Supper March,” as part of The Cat in clares have come, as his throne is progres- the Hat Song Book sively elevated, within his domainin “Yer- tle the Turtle,” as part of Yertle the Turtle and music 1: Subject cited (as part of a sentence) Other Stories in providing examples of use of the letter M/min Dr. Seuss’s ABC 2: What the Cat Mulligatawny, scraggle-foot Creature (“A in the Hat tells the young cat he can, if open- high-stepping animal fast as the wind”) Ger- eyed, “learn to read”in I Can Read with My ald McGrew fantasizes about capturing for Eyes Shut! 3: Overall content of the book McGrew Zoo in If I Ran the Zoo in The Cat in the Hat Song Book Mulvaney, Sergeant Officer who leads the musical instruments Among the things police that are part of Marco’s fantasizingin about which information is to be provided And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street by the volume’s purported authorin My mumbling Adjective employed (as part of Book About Me a sentence) in providing examples of use of musical twins Characterization of the the letter M/min Dr. Seuss’s ABC daughters of Mr. Blinnin Oh Say Can You mumps Among the things about which Say? questions are askedin The Cat’s Quizzer music making Among the subjects about munch-er-oo Characterization of the act of which information is to be provided by the food consumption, as expressed by the Birth- volume’s purported authorin My Book day Bird of Katrooin Happy Birthday to You! About Me
• 84 • mustache National Geographic
mustache Among the things about which into the Once-ler’s “tin pail” to hear from questions are askedin The Cat’s Quizzer him “how the Lorax was lifted away”in The Lorax Mustard-Off Clubs Organizations that it is said built the Mustard-Off Pools at Katroo name Among the things about which infor- in Happy Birthday to You! mation is to be provided by the volume’s purported authorin My Book About Me Mustard-Off Pools “Warm-water moun- taintop tubs” within which to bathe after Nantasket Place from “the wilds” of which having eaten hot dogs at Katroo’s Birthday Gerald McGrew fantasizes about bringing Lunchin Happy Birthday to You! back several creatures for McGrew Zooin muzzle One of the conjuring words from If I Ran the Zoo the magicians’ incantation beginning “Shuffle, Nantucket, Wilds of Area in which Gerald duffle, muzzle, muff”in Bartholomew and McGrew, as part of his fantasizing, intends to the Oobleck capture “a family of Lunks” for McGrew Myself, Me 1: Purported author of the Zoo in If I Ran the Zoo book (which is said to have been created Na-Nupp Place where, it is suggested, one “with a little help from my friend Dr. might think of spending “a night”in Oh, Seuss”)in I Can Draw It Myself 2: Pur- the Thinks You Can Think! ported author of the book (which is said to have been created “with a little help from my Nat One of the names mentioned by Marco friends Dr. Seuss and Roy McKie”)in My when he declares dismissively of “A reindeer Book About Me and sleigh,” during the course of his fanta- sizing, “Sayanyone could think of that”in mysolf Seussian rendering of “myself” And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (devised to rhyme with “golf”)in If I Ran the Circus Natch Creature said to live in a cave in Kartoom, and which Gerald McGrew fanta- Mystic Mountain Neeka-tave Location of sizes about capturing for McGrew Zooin the “secret cave” of King Derwin’s magicians If I Ran the Zoo in Bartholomew and the Oobleck Nate Among the names mentioned by the “My Uncle Terwilliger Likes to Pat” Title narrator as offhand examples of those to of a song in The Cat in the Hat Song Book whose birthday the Birthday Bird of Katroo “My Uncle Terwilliger Waltzes with Bears” will relatein Happy Birthday to You! Title of a songin The Cat in the Hat Song Book Nathan War horse of Lord Godivain The Nadd One of King Derwin’s Wise Menin Seven Lady Godivas The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins National Geographic Publication in which nail Object which (together with “fifteen it is said the reader will one day read “of a cents / . . . and the shell of a great-great-great- faraway land / with no smelly bad traffic” / grandfather snail”) it is said must be tossed in You’re Only Old Once!
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navy bean Bullet said to be used (“a stale Neeka-tave, Mystic Mountain Location of navy bean / That you’ve dunked for three the “secret cave” of King Derwin’s magicians weeks in old sour kerosene”) when killing in Bartholomew and the Oobleck the creature called Sneedlein On Beyond Zebra neighbors Among the groups (“. . . I don’t care what the neighbors say!”) the narrator Nazzim of Bazzim Owner identified as says will not cause him to leave his bedin that of the creature called Spazzimin On I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! Beyond Zebra Nellar Among the creatures said to be Nebraska Among the places, cited as hav- found “in the cellar”in There’s a Wocket in ing been confirmed by Principal Grumm’s My Pocket! research, where daisies it is said can grow Nelly Among the names mentioned by the in Daisy-Head Mayzie narrator as offhand examples of those to neckerchiefs One of the things involved in whose birthday the Birthday Bird of Katroo part of Miss Twining’s teaching (“tying knots will relatein Happy Birthday to You! / In neckerchiefs and noodles”) at Diffendoo- Nerd One of the creatures Gerald McGrew fer Schoolin Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! fantasizes about bringing back from Ka-Troo necks Among the things (“of people, bees for McGrew Zooin If I Ran the Zoo and chimpanzees”) it is said singing is “good Nerkle One of the creatures Gerald for”in “Let Us All Sing,” as part of The Cat McGrew fantasizes about bringing back from in the Hat Song Book Ka-Troo for McGrew Zooin If I Ran the Zoo neckties 1: Articles of clothing to be sup- nest, moose-hair Home built in Thidwick’s plied, it is suggested, with various markings antlers by a Zinn-a-zu Birdin Thidwick the in I Can Draw It Myself 2: Objects cited Big-Hearted Moose (as part of a phrase) in providing examples of use of the letter N/nin Dr. Seuss’s ABC NEST, TOP-EST SECRET-EST BRAIN Sign on the entrance of the working area of Ned 1: Among the characters introduced, the Chief Yookeroo’s Bright Back Room to be featured as part of a phrase or sentence Boysin The Butter Battle Book in Hop on Pop 2: Among the names men- tioned by the narrator as offhand examples net 1: Among objects that were, it is sug- of those to whose birthday the Birthday Bird gested, left to be suppliedin I Can Draw It of Katroo will relatein Happy Birthday to Myself 2: Object said to have been used by You! 3: Creature that does not like his the narrator to capture and restrain Thing “little bed”in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish One and Thing Twoin The Cat in the Hat Blue Fish new 1: Adjective employed (as part of a needs Among the words featured as part phrase) in providing examples of use of the of tongue-twisting textin Oh Say Can You letter N/nin Dr. Seuss’s ABC 2: Among Say? the various kinds and descriptions of fish
• 86 • New Keeper Noah’s whole Ark
citedin One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Night-Sight Light, Bright Dwight Bird-Flight 3: Among the words featured as part of Device that it is said “might be right” as a tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks Christmas present for a father having the name Dwightin Oh Say Can You Say? New Keeper Title by which Gerald McGrew says people will refer to him as the Nine new neckties Phrase cited in provid- keeper at McGrew Zooin If I Ran the Zoo ing examples of use of the letter N/nin Dr. Seuss’s ABC news Among the things (“Spread the news all over town.”) the narrator says will not nink Element of the overgrowth present at cause him to leave his bedin I Am NOT decaying Castle Godiva by the time of Lady Going to Get Up Today! Hedwig’s Horse Truth discoveryin The Seven Lady Godivas New Wing Area designation at the Golden Years Clinicin You’re Only Old Once! Nink Creature said to be found “in the sink”in There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! New York “Town” to which Horton is brought by his captorsin Horton Hatches the Nippo-no-Nungus Place from which the Egg Bippo-no-Bungus are, as part of Gerald McGrew’s fantasizing, said to be less smart New Zoo Alternative designation of the than those from Hippo-no-Hungusin If I establishment, McGrew Zoo, Gerald Ran the Zoo McGrew fantasizes about creatingin If I Ran the Zoo Nipswich Place at which stops are said to be made along the transportation route of night 1: Among the things it is suggested the creatures called High Gargel-orumin one “can think about”in Oh, the Thinks You On Beyond Zebra Can Think! 2: Among the words featured for use as part of a phrase or sentencein Nitches Caves said to be the living quar- Hop on Pop 3: One of the contexts (“Feet at ters of Nutchesin On Beyond Zebra night”) of the subject covered in The Foot Nizzards “A kind of giant blackbird,” Book See also: Friday night; Opening Night menacingly attracted to the roots of the Night Cats One of the two segments of the Dike Trees, and producing what King Bir- Patrol Cats corps at the Kingdom of Binnin tram characterizes as the Kingdom of Binn’s The King’s Stilts “nizzardly worries”in The King’s Stilts Night-of-All-Nights-of-All-Nights Char- No Among the things cited (“waiting acterization by Katroo’s Birthday Bird of the around for a Yes or No”) as reasons for peo- closing part of the day-long observance at ple being at the Waiting Placein Oh, the Katroo on one’s birthdayin Happy Birthday Places You’ll Go! to You! Noah’s whole Ark Biblical vessel and its nightshirt Among the words cited in pro- cargo that, Gerald McGrew declares, people viding examples of use of the letter N/nin will ultimately regard McGrew Zoo as “bet- Dr. Seuss’s ABC ter than”in If I Ran the Zoo
• 87 • “Nobody loves me.” North Nubb
“Nobody loves me.” Lament expressed by to be found “in my book case”in There’s a Mayzie McGrew when, having abandoned Wocket in My Pocket! her commercial and show-business pursuits, Nool, Jungle of Setting of the storyin she feels “I can never go home.”in Daisy- Horton Hears a Who! Head Mayzie NOORONETICS Indication on one of the Nobsk, River of Waterway, as part of Ger- several directional signs at the Golden Years ald McGrew’s fantasizing, said to be near the Clinicin You’re Only Old Once! Mountains of Tobsk, habitat of the creature called Obskin If I Ran the Zoo Nooth Grush Creature said by the narrator to be found “on my tooth brush”in There’s noises Among the subjects about which a Wocket in My Pocket! information is to be provided by the volume’s purported authorin My Book About Me noozer, one-nozzled Musical instrument it is said will be played by a Nolster, as part of No Laugh Race”, “The Title of a songin Circus McGurkus’s Parade-of-Paradesin If The Cat in the Hat Song Book I Ran the Circus Nolster Creature it is said will blow “floops nop Description of one of the actions on a one-nozzled noozer,” as part of Circus employed (together with “clip,” “clop,” McGurkus’s Parade-of-Paradesin If I Ran “nip,” “snip,” and “snop”) by the Who-Bubs the Circus when gathering Birthday Flower Jungle bloomsin Happy Birthday to You! noodle and noodles 1: Among the foods the singer says he/she could eatin “The North Dakota State within a certain area of Super-Supper March,” as part of The Cat in which, as part of Gerald McGrew’s fantasiz- the Hat Song Book 2: Among the words fea- ing, is said to live “a very fine animal / tured as part of tongue-twisting textsin Fox Called the Iota”in If I Ran the Zoo in Socks 3: One of the things involved in North-Going Zax Creature (together with part of Miss Twining’s teaching (“tying knots the South-Going Zax) central to the story / In neckerchiefs and noodles”) at Diffen- in “The Zax,” as part of The Sneetches and doofer School in Hooray for Diffendoofer Other Stories Day! See also: French fried noodles North Hall, Great Area of Castle Godiva Nook Creature described as consulting a in The Seven Lady Godivas “hook cook book”in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish North Nitch Place cited by the Once-ler in giving directions to his relatives for finding Nook, Hinkle Horn Compartment for the their way to himin The Lorax storage of instruments played by members of the Hinkle-Horn Honking Clubin Dr. North Nubb Place at one end of the trans- Seuss’s Sleep Book portation service said to be provided by the creatures called High Gargel-orumin On Nook Gase Creature said by the narrator Beyond Zebra
• 88 • North Pole Oath Book
North Pole Place up beyond which, Gerald Nowhere Hunch Creature-represented McGrew says, “I’ll go and I’ll hunt in my impulse the following of which the narrator Skeegle-mobile / And bring back a family of acknowledges was “a real dumb thing to What-do-you-know!”in If I Ran the Zoo do”in Hunches in Bunches Norval “Vestibule fish” at the Golden Years NUH One of the letters of the extended Clinicin You’re Only Old Once! alphabet introduced by the narratorin On nose and noses 1: Among the things a Beyond Zebra drawing to represent which is to be provided number, phone Among the things about by the volume’s purported author in My which information is to be provided by the Book About Me 2: Among the words cited volume’s purported authorin My Book in providing examples of use of the letter About Me N/nin Dr. Seuss’s ABC 3: Among the words featured as part of tongue-twisting Nungus Abbreviated form of reference, as textsin Fox in Socks 4: Among the objects expressed by Gerald McGrew, to the place (“for girls smelling roses”) that were, it is called Nippo-no-Nungusin If I Ran the Zoo suggested, left to be supplied in I Can Draw Nupboards Creatures said to be found “in It Myself 5: Among the things the boy nar- the cupboards” in There’s a Wocket in My rator cites by name in The Shape of Me and Pocket! Other Stuff 6: Among the things (“owls on noses”) the Cat in the Hat says, “You can Nureau Creature about which the narrator read about . . .”in I Can Read with My Eyes asks whether the person being addressed ever Shut! 7: Part of his body about which Mr. had “the feeling” of one’s possibly being “in Bear declares, “This nose on my face is the your bureau?”in There’s a Wocket in My finest that grows.”in “The Big Brag,” as Pocket! part of Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories See Nutches Creatures the name of which is also: long curly nose cited as a use for the letter NUH within the Nose-Patting Extension, Three Seater Zatz-it extended alphabet introduced by the narra- Device said to have been created by the nar- torin On Beyond Zebra rator to permit a caressing of the creature called Zatz-itin On Beyond Zebra O See: O’s notes, gusty lusty Description of the musi- oath Undertaking pledged by the daugh- cal expression said to be beneficial to “dusty ters of Lord Godiva: “I swear that I shall not musty throats”in “Let Us All Sing,” as part wed until I have brought to the light of this of The Cat in the Hat Song Book world some new and worthy Horse Truth, of benefit to man.”in The Seven Lady Godivas not-so-good street Avenue that, in proceed- ing “With your head full of brains and your Oath Book Volume created by Lady Hed- shoes full of feet,” it is said “you’re too wig, and hung “just outside the stable door,” smart to go down any . . .”in Oh, the Places for the recording of Horse Truthsin The You’ll Go! Seven Lady Godivas
• 89 • Obsk Once-ler Family
Obsk Creature (“A sort of a kind of a Thing- Oglers Designation of clinical examiners of a-ma-Bobsk . . .”) Gerald McGrew fantasizes “your stomach and chest” at the Golden about bringing back from the Mountains of Years Clinicin You’re Only Old Once! Tobsk for McGrew Zooin If I Ran the Zoo o’Grunth Musical instrument (“a kind of a occupation or profession, future Among hunting horn”) on which is said to be played the subjects about which information is to be “the right kind of softish nice music” to provided by the volume’s purported author bring the creature called Flunnel “out of his in My Book About Me hole”in On Beyond Zebra Ocean City Place cited (“37 miles”) on a oil, Beezle-Nut Substance in which the roadside directional sign in McElligot’s Pool kangaroos and members of the Wickersham Ocean of Olf Place from which is said to family intend to boil Horton’s “small speck come Circus McGurkus’s “walrus named of dust” in Horton Hears a Who! Rolf” in If I Ran the Circus oiled Verb employed (as part of a sentence) o’Dell, Conrad Cornelius o’Donald Char- in providing examples of use of the letter acter (“My very young friend who is learning O/oin Dr. Seuss’s ABC to spell”) being taught by the unnamed nar- old Among the various kinds and descrip- rator an alphabet that proceeds from where tions of fish citedin One Fish Two Fish Red On the traditional alphabet concludes in Fish Blue Fish Beyond Zebra Olf, Ocean of Place from which is said to Officer Thatcher Policeman who thwarted come Circus McGurkus’s “walrus named the swarm of bees pursuing Mayzie McGrew Rolf”in If I Ran the Circus in Daisy-Head Mayzie Official Katroo Birthday Pet Reservation Oliver Boliver Butt Among the names it is said Mrs. McCave often wishes she had Place at Katroo where creatures are kept to be chosen from as a gift on one’s birthday given one of her “twenty-three Daves” in in Happy Birthday to You! “Too Many Daves,” as part of The Sneetches and Other Stories Official Katroo Birthday Sounding-Off Place Location at Katroo (“the top of the Olympics, Internal Organs Competition at toppest blue space”) said to be for shouting which Golden Years Clinic physicians are on one’s birthday “I AM I”in Happy Birth- said last year to have “won fifteen gold day to You! medals, / nine silver, / six bronze” in You’re Only Old Once! Official Katroo Happy Birthday Cake Cookers Designation of the bakers Snook- Once-ler Principal narrator of the story of ers and Snookersin Happy Birthday to You! “how the Lorax was lifted away”in The Lorax Offt Creatures said to be so light that they are “able to sleep off the ground”in Dr. Once-ler Family Relatives (“brothers and Seuss’s Sleep Book uncles and aunts”) said to have been called
• 90 • one-eyed eyeglasses ort
upon by the Once-ler to join him in the mak- the story’s developmentin Bartholomew and ing of Thneedsin The Lorax the Oobleck one-eyed eyeglasses Among the things oom-pahs Among the musical instruments about which questions are askedin The by playing on which the Whos tried to make Cat’s Quizzer themselves heardin Horton Hears a Who! one-horned animal Among the creatures Oooh and oooh 1: Seussian rendering of about which questions are askedin The “Oh”in Bartholomew and the Oobleck Cat’s Quizzer 2: Seussian rendering of “oh”in Horton Hatches the Egg one-nozzled noozer Musical instrument it is said will be played by a Nolster, as part of open-eyed Manner of reading the Cat in Circus McGurkus’s Parade-of-Paradesin If the Hat urges upon the young catin I Can I Ran the Circus Read with My Eyes Shut! one-th Seussian rendering of “once” Opening Night Designation of Circus (devised to rhyme with “o’Grunth”)in On McGurkus’s inaugural occasion in If I Ran Beyond Zebra the Circus One Thirty-Nine, Year Time of the action OPTOGLYMICS Indication on one of the of the storyin “King Looie Katz,” as part of several directional signs at the Golden Years I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories Clinic in You’re Only Old Once! one-wheeled bicycle Among the things orange 1: Among the classifications of about which questions are askedin The days cited in My Many Colored Days Cat’s Quizzer 2: Color cited (as part of a sentence) in pro- viding examples of use of the letter O/oin One-Wheeler Wubble Vehicle within Dr. Seuss’s ABC 3: Color of one of the bal- which the narrator undertook to travel from loons that were, it is suggested, left to be the Valley of Vung to the City of Solla Sollew suppliedin I Can Draw It Myself in I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew orange-tinted Description of the pills of only Adjective employed (as part of a sen- which it is said by the Pill Drill voice, “. . . I tence) in providing examples of use of the take to cure my charley horse.”in You’re letter O/oin Dr. Seuss’s ABC Only Old Once! on skis Among the various kinds and Organ-McOrgan-McGurkus Musical descriptions of fish (“Who slides down the instrument featured as part of Circus sides / Of strange islands on skis”) Marco McGurkus’s Parade-of-Parades, and charac- speculates he might catchin McElligot’s Pool terized as having “hot steaming pipes of If I Ran the Circus oobleck Green substance conjured from gold brass-plated tin” in the sky (“something NEW to come down”) ort Seussian rendering of “ought” (devised by King Derwin’s magicians, and the com- to rhyme with “quart”)in “Cry a Pint,” as plications resulting from which are central to part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book
• 91 • O’s Palm Springs
O’s Marks of a game central (together with ples of use of the letter P/pin Dr. Seuss’s X’s) to questions askedin The Cat’s Quizzer ABC 3: Object within which the creature See also: Zeros called Flummox will it is said “carry a Lurch,” as part of Circus McGurkus’s Oscar’s only ostrich oiled an orange owl today. Sentence cited in providing examples Parade-of-Parades in If I Ran the Circus of use of the letter O/oin Dr. Seuss’s ABC 4: Object (“a three-gallon pail”) it is said Snorter McPhail “snores with his head O’Shea, Mordecai Ali Van Allen Among in”in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book See also: tin the names cited as possibly being that of the pail readerin Oh, the Places You’ll Go! painting Artistic activity in which Mr. ostrich 1: Among the creatures about Beeze is said to engage (“Paints pictures which “True or False” questions are asked hanging by his knees”)in Hooray for Diffen- in The Cat’s Quizzer 2: Creature cited (as doofer Day! part of a sentence) in providing examples of use of the letter O/oin Dr. Seuss’s ABC Painting pink pajamas Phrase cited in pro- viding examples of use of the letter P/pin owl and owls 1: Among the creatures Dr. Seuss’s ABC (“owls on noses”) the Cat in the Hat says, “You can read about . . .”in I Can Read with pajamas Clothing cited (as part of a phrase) in providing examples of use of the My Eyes Shut! 2: Animal cited (as part of a sentence) in providing examples of use of the letter P/p in Dr. Seuss’s ABC letter O/oin Dr. Seuss’s ABC 3: Animals palace 1: Residence of King Derwinin that (together with mice and the Midwinter The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins 2: Resi- Jicker’s “horrible howls”) kept the narrator dence of King Derwinin Bartholomew and awakein I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla the Oobleck See also: Pizza Palace Sollew 4: Among the things Mr. Brown Pal-alace, Birthday Location at Katroo “can go like,” making the sound “hoo” in Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? See also: where one’s Big Birthday Party is held in Twiddler Owls Happy Birthday to You! pale green pants Garment “With nobody oysters Among the foods the singer says he/she could eatin “The Super-Supper inside them” central to the story in “What March,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Was I Scared Of?,” as part of The Sneetches Book and Other Stories paddle and paddled and paddles Among Palm Beach Place to which Mayzie flees the words featured as part of tongue- in Horton Hatches the Egg twisting textsin Fox in Socks palms Among the things (“palms” with reference to hands and to trees) about which pail and pails 1: Among the objects used by the Little Cats to deal with the Snow Spots questions are asked in The Cat’s Quizzer in The Cat in the Hat Comes Back! 2: Object Palm Springs Destination of the “chap in a cited (as part of a phrase) in providing exam- slicker” whom the narrator encountered dur-
• 92 • Palooski, Russian Pat
ing the course of the Midwinter Jickerin I up”in I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew Paris Garters Among the names it is said Palooski, Russian Bird that Gerald McGrew Mrs. McCave often wishes she had given one fantasizes about getting for McGrew Zooin of her “twenty-three Daves”in “Too Many If I Ran the Zoo Daves,” as part of The Sneetches and Other pan Among the objects between which Stories pink stains are transferred during the course parrot “Book-reading” bird named Hooey of the spot-removal actions central to the in Oh Say Can You Say? story’s developmentin The Cat in the Hat Parsifal Horse (“her very last horse”) of Comes Back! See also: egg in a frying pan Lady Hedwigin The Seven Lady Godivas pants 1: Among the things cited (“Waiting parting 1: Act of leave-taking that is the for . . . a pair of pants”) as reasons for people subject of the songin “Party Parting,” as part being at the Waiting Placein Oh, the Places of The Cat in the Hat Song Book 2: Leave- You’ll Go! 2: Pale-green garment “With taking that is repeatedly urged upon the nobody inside them” central to the story character being addressedin Marvin K. in “What Was I Scared Of?,” as part of The Mooney Will You Please Go Now? Sneetches and Other Stories 3: Trousers of Charlie Chantz, “inside of” which his body partly a cow Among the various kinds and was, it is suggested, left to be suppliedin I descriptions of fish (“Who is partly a cow”) Can Draw It Myself See also: crocodile Marco speculates he might catchin pants McElligot’s Pool pants-eating-plants Vegetation said to Party, Big Birthday Designation of the grow “in that forest in France”in Did I Ever observance held at Katroo on one’s birthday Tell You How Lucky You Are? in Happy Birthday to You! Papa’s Possessive noun employed (as part “Party Parting” Title of a songin The Cat of a sentence) in providing examples of use in the Hat Song Book of the letter P/pin Dr. Seuss’s ABC Pass, Pompelmoose Place occupied by the papers Among the things (“You can print it Perilous Poozersin I Had Trouble in Getting in the papers.”) the narrator says will not to Solla Sollew cause him to leave his bedin I Am NOT past Among the words featured for use as Going to Get Up Today! part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop parachutes See: chutes pasture Among the places referred to by Parade-of-Parades Designation of the Marco during his speculationsin McEl- opening element of Circus McGurkus’s Big ligot’s Pool Tent presentationin If I Ran the Circus Pat Among the characters introduced, to be Paris One of the cities about which the nar- featured as part of a phrase or sentencein rator declares, indifferently, “Let the kids get Hop on Pop
• 93 • patient Pepper, Peter
patient 1: Man being addressed as the peanuts Among the things the boy narra- principal character of the storyin You’re tor cites by namein The Shape of Me and Only Old Once! 2: Man being examined Other Stuff when Principal Grumm calls Dr. Eisenbart, peanut trees Among the things about and who accompanies the doctor in his dash which questions are askedin The Cat’s Daisy-Head to Mayzie McGrew’s school in Quizzer Mayzie pearls Among the things cited (“Waiting patpuppop Quiz element, of combined for . . . a string of pearls”) as reasons for peo- words, cited in Hop on Pop ple being at the Waiting Placein Oh, the Patrol, Zook-Watching Border Yook organ- Places You’ll Go! ization to which Grandpa says he related “as peas Among the things (“You can shoot at a youth” in The Butter Battle Book me with peas and beans!”) the narrator says Patrol Cats Feline corps at the Kingdom of will not cause him to leave his bedin I Am Binn, trained “to chase the Nizzards NOT Going to Get Up Today! away” in The King’s Stilts Peeping Brothers Siblings (Dick, Drexel, patting 1: Act of caressing associated with Frelinghuysen, Harry, Jack, Sylvester, and Pete Briggs (“a pink pig, big pig patter”)in Tom) who are the marital suitors of Lord Oh Say Can You Say? 2: Act of caressing Godiva’s daughters in The Seven Lady that is the song’s subjectin “My Uncle Ter- Godivas williger Likes to Pat,” as part of The Cat in the Peeping Jack and Peeping Jack II Names Hat Song Book See also: Three-Seater Zatz- given by Lady Mitzi to her horse-propelled it Nose-Patting Extension boatsin The Seven Lady Godivas Paul Among the names mentioned by the Pelf Bird, an egg of which was secured by narrator as offhand examples of those to Peter T. Hooper, that “Lays eggs that are whose birthday the Birthday Bird of Katroo three times as big as herself”in Scrambled will relatein Happy Birthday to You! Eggs Super! Paul Revere’s fine horse Creature that is people Among those it is said singing is wished “Happy birthday likewise”in “good for” (for their “tongues and necks and “Happy Birthday to Little Sally Spingel knees”)in “Let Us All Sing,” as part of The Spungel Sporn,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Cat in the Hat Song Book See also: Fine- Song Book Something-That-All-People-Need pay, piffulous Characterizaton of the com- people up there on those chairs Among pensation given Ali Sard for mowing “his the persons that were, it is suggested, left to uncle’s back yard”in Did I Ever Tell You be suppliedin I Can Draw It Myself How Lucky You Are? Pepper, Peter Name cited (as part of a P.C. Abbreviation on the badges of members phrase) in providing examples of use of the of the Patrol Cats corpsin The King’s Stilts letter P/pin Dr. Seuss’s ABC
• 94 • peppered phone number
peppered Action involved in one of the wick’s antler-riding creaturesin Thidwick subjects (“all the ways / A pigeon may be the Big-Hearted Moose peppered”) taught by Miss Vining at Dif- pet and pets 1: Creature one of which, like fendoofer School in Hooray for Diffendoofer that illustrated, it is said should be possessed Day! “at home” by “All girls who like / to brush peppermint cucumber sausage-paste butter and comb”in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Substance said to be used at Katroo by the Blue Fish 2: Among the things about which bakers Snookers and Snookers to produce information is to be provided by the vol- their Big Birthday Party cakein Happy ume’s purported authorin My Book About Birthday to You! Me See also: Official Katroo Birthday Pet Reservation; wet pet perch, prickle-ly State and/or site of sus- pension in which, it is said, “You can get all Pete 1: Among the names mentioned by hung up”in Oh, the Places You’ll Go! the narrator as offhand examples of those to whose birthday the Birthday Bird of Katroo Perilous Poozers Creatures resident in will relatein Happy Birthday to You! Pompelmoose Pass that were attacked by 2: Name of the human figure parts of which General Genghis Kahn Schmitz and his (“a couple of feet”) were, it is suggested, left military force in I Had Trouble in Getting to to be suppliedin I Can Draw It Myself Solla Sollew Pete Briggs’ Pink Pigs Big Pigs Pigpen Persian Princes Characters that, as part of Housing provided for the animals said to be Gerald McGrew’s fantasizing, it is said will patted by Pete Briggsin Oh Say Can You carry a basket containing several creatures Say? “from the wilds of Nantasket”in If I Ran the Zoo Peter Pepper’s puppy Phrase cited in pro- viding examples of use of the letter P/pin personal fulfillment Subject central to the Dr. Seuss’s ABC story’s developmentin Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Peter the Postman Person it is suggested one might think about (“who crosses the ice persons 1: Among those cited as associ- / once every day / and on Saturdays, ated with a state of being “up”in Great Day twice”)in Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! for Up 2: Objects of Horton’s generalized phone Among the things cited (“Waiting concern, and about whom he recurrently for . . . the phone to ring”) as reasons for declares, “A person’s a person, no matter people being at the Waiting Placein Oh, how small.”in Horton Hears a Who! the Places You’ll Go! See also: telephone; Peru Among the places, cited as having Whisper-ma-Phone been confirmed by Principal Grumm’s phone number Among the things about research, where daisies it is said can which information is to be provided by the growin Daisy-Head Mayzie volume’s purported authorin My Book pests Negative characterization of Thid- About Me
• 95 • pickle color pink
pickle color Among the hues about which providing the means of Gertrude McFuzz’s the Cat in the Hat says, “I can read in . . .” enlarging her tailin “Gertrude McFuzz,” as in I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! part of Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories pickles Food the singer says he/she could Pill Drill Designation of the process of pro- eat “fifteen” ofin “The Super-Supper viding instructions for taking medicines pre- March,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book scribed at the Golden Years Clinicin You’re Only Old Once! pictures, funny Designation of subjects it is suggested can be drawn by the volume’s pillow Object on which, the narrator says, purported authorin My Book About Me a creature called Zillow is present in There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! piffulous pay Characterization of the com- pensation given Ali Sard for mowing “his Pillow Snake Creature named Jake, which uncle’s back yard”in Did I Ever Tell You the Cat in the Hat tells the young cat he will, How Lucky You Are? if open-eyed, “learn about”in I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! pig and pigs 1: Among the words featured as part of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in pills 1: Among the objects that were, it is Socks 2: One of the particularities (“pig suggested, left to be suppliedin I Can Draw feet”) of the subject coveredin The Foot It Myself 2: Forms (“little pink pills”) into Book 3: Among the creatures cited as asso- which the Little Cats transformed the Snow ciated with a state of being “up”in Great Spotsin The Cat in the Hat Comes Back! Day for Up 4: Animal that it is said Miss 3: Objects central to the Pill Drill process Bonkers at Diffendoofer School teaches “to of the Golden Years Clinicin You’re Only put on underpants”in Hooray for Diffen- Old Once! doofer Day! 5: Animals of two sorts, “pink Pineapple Butterscotch Ding Dang Doo pigs” and “big pigs,” associated with Pete One of the confections about the offering of Briggsin Oh Say Can You Say? which the narrator declares, “You won’t get pigeon Bird involved in one of the subjects me up”in I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! (“all the ways / A pigeon may be peppered”) pineapples 1: Among the foods about taught by Miss Vining at Diffendoofer which “Food Quiz” questions are askedin Schoolin Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! The Cat’s Quizzer 2: Among the things the Pigmy, Tall Character (together with a boy narrator cites by namein The Shape of Short Giant) central to a question askedin Me and Other Stuff The Cat’s Quizzer ping-pong ball Among the things about Pigpen, Pete Briggs’ Pink Pigs Big Pigs which questions are askedin The Cat’s Housing provided for the animals said to be Quizzer patted by Pete Briggsin Oh Say Can You Say? pink 1: Among the classifications of days pill-berry Fruit, produced by a “vine on citedin My Many Colored Days 2: Among the top of the hill,” identified by Dr. Dake as the colors it is suggested one “can think
• 96 • pinkies Plight, Prune Picker’s
about”in Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! Place, Official Katroo Birthday Sounding- 3: Color cited (as part of a phrase) in provid- Off Location at Katroo (“the top of the ing examples of use of the letter P/pin Dr. toppest blue space”) said to be for shouting Seuss’s ABC 4: Color of one of the sorts of on one’s birthday “I AM I”in Happy Birth- pigs (“pink pigs” and “big pigs”) associated day to You! with Pete Briggsin Oh Say Can You Say? place, punkerish Characterization of a 5: Color of the ink cited as being what the location where a person, it is suggested, creature called Yink “likes to drink”in One might be left behind, alone, as “something Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish 6: Color of someone forgot”in Did I Ever Tell You How the moons that were, it is suggested, left to Lucky You Are? be suppliedin I Can Draw It Myself 7: Color of the stains, spots, and accumulations Place, Waiting Site where, it is said, all involved in the removal actions central to those present are “people just waiting”in the storyin The Cat in the Hat Comes Back! Oh, the Places You’ll Go! See also: drink pink ink; Pete Briggs’ Pink Places, Great Prospective destinations it Pigs Big Pigs Pigpen is said “You’re off to”in Oh, the Places pinkies Description of the pills of which it You’ll Go! is said by the Pill Drill voice that four are Plain-Belly Sneetches Together with the swallowed “On alternate nights at nine Star-Belly Sneetches, principal characters of p.m.”in You’re Only Old Once! the storyin “The Sneetches,” as part of The Pinner Blinn Character who, with regard Sneetches and Other Stories to the dinosaur Dinn, it is said “pins Dinn’s plane Among the things cited (“Waiting shinbones right back in,” and who is also for . . . a plane to go”) as reasons for people said to be “the father of musical twins” who being at the Waiting Placein Oh, the Places “lull their daddy to sleep with twin Blinn You’ll Go! See also: airplane; jet violins”in Oh Say Can You Say? plants See: pants-eating-plants pint Quantity involved in the subject of the songin “Cry a Pint,” as part of The Cat in play 1: Among the words featured as part the Hat Song Book of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks 2: Among the words featured for use as part pinwheel-like tail Among the various of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop kinds and descriptions of fish (“With a pin- wheel-like tail”) Marco speculates he might Players, Poogle-Horn Musicians said to catchin McElligot’s Pool have to awaken the Prince of Poo-Boken each morningin Did I Ever Tell You How pip Sound made by Mr. Brown, “like a gold- Lucky You Are? fish kiss”in Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? PL-E-E-ASE Seussian rendering of “please” Pizza Palace Structure identified as the in Horton Hatches the Egg intended destination of two turtles, and cen- tral to a question askedin The Cat’s Quizzer Plight, Prune Picker’s Among the ailments
• 97 • plink Pompelmoose Pass
asked about by the Quiz-Docsin You’re in “Plinker Plunker,” as part of The Cat in Only Old Once! the Hat Song Book plink Description of the action of playing a plup Action of the dropping of the Biggel- plinkerin “Plinker Plunker,” as part of The Ball component of the Audio-Telly-o-Tally-o Cat in the Hat Song Book Count mechanismin Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book plinker One of the musical instruments pocket Location referred to as part of the that is a central feature of the songin book’s titlein There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! “Plinker Plunker,” as part of The Cat in the pogo sticks Objects central to a “Food Hat Song Book Quiz” questionin The Cat’s Quizzer “Plinker Plunker” Title of a songin The polar bears Among the kinds of bears with Cat in the Hat Song Book which Uncle Terwilliger is said to dancein plop 1: Designation of one of the sounds “My Uncle Terwilliger Waltzes with Bears,” made (together with “dibble,” “dobble,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book “drip,” and “drop”) by rainfallin “Rainy poles, soft-tufted barber shop Among the Day in Utica, N.Y.,” as part of The Cat in the places where or on which creatures are said Hat Song Book 2: Sound said to have been to be sleepingin Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book made by the narrator’s net when capturing Thing One and Thing Twoin The Cat in police 1: Among the groups (“You can the Hat bring in the police.”) the narrator says will not cause him to leave his bedin I Am NOT plum, purple Among the foods the singer Going to Get Up Today! 2: Law officers who says he/she could eatin “The Super- are part of Marco’s fantasizingin And to Supper March,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street Song Book Policeman in a pail Phrase cited in pro- Plunger, Mr. Custodian at Diffendoofer viding examples of use of the letter P/pin School, and creator of a “super-zooper- Dr. Seuss’s ABC flooper-do” cleaning machinein Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! Pollen, Dr. Golden Years Clinic “Allergy Whiz,” said to know “every sniffle and itch plunk Description of the action of playing that there is”in You’re Only Old Once! a plunkerin “Plinker Plunker,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book pollution Action and/or condition central to part of the storyin The Lorax plunker One of the musical instruments that is a central feature of the songin Polly Among the names mentioned by the “Plinker Plunker,” as part of The Cat in the narrator as offhand examples of those to Hat Song Book whose birthday the Birthday Bird of Katroo will relatein Happy Birthday to You! plunk-plunk plunker Musician character- ized as “a fellow who can plunk and plink” Pompelmoose Pass Place occupied by the
• 98 • pond pot
Perilous Poozersin I Had Trouble in Getting to awaken the Prince of Poo-Bokenin Did I to Solla Sollew Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? pond Domain of King Yertle at the story’s poogles Instruments played by the musi- outsetin “Yertle the Turtle,” as part of Yer- cians said to awaken the Prince of Poo-Boken tle the Turtle and Other Stories See also: rip- each morningin Did I Ever Tell You How pulous pond Lucky You Are? Poo-a-Doo Powder Explosive said to be Pool, McElligot’s Fishing site of Marco used, together with “ants’ eggs and bees’ and the setting of his speculationsin legs / and dried-fried clam chowder,” to McElligot’s Pool load the Yooks’ Kick-a-Poo Kid in The But- Pools, Mustard-Off “Warm-water moun- ter Battle Book taintop tubs” within which to bathe after poobers Food the singer says he/she “could having eaten hot dogs at Katroo’s Birthday eat a peck of”in “The Super-Supper March,” Lunch in Happy Birthday to You! as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book Poozers, Perilous Creatures resident in Poo-Boken, Prince of Character said to be Pompelmoose Pass that were attacked by awakened each morning by the Poogle-Horn General Genghis Kahn Schmitz and his Playersin Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky military force in I Had Trouble in Getting to You Are? Solla Sollew pop Sound made by Mr. Brown, “like a poodle and poodles 1: Among the words featured as part of tongue-twisting textsin cork” in Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? Fox in Socks 2: Animal involved in one of Pop Among the words featured for use as the subjects (“how to tell chrysanthemums / part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop From miniature poodles”) taught by Miss pop guns Among the objects used by the Twining at Diffendoofer School in Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! 3: One of the animals Little Cats to deal with the Snow Spots in it is said Uncle Terwilliger favors patting The Cat in the Hat Comes Back! concurrently (“poodle with his left hand, pork and wee beans Characterization by camel with his right hand, . . . a frog with his VanItch of the condition into which he and left big toe”)in “My Uncle Terwilliger his Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo would blow Likes to Pat,” as part of The Cat in the Hat everyone when he and Grandpa had their Song Book final showdown on the Wallin The Butter Poogle-Horn Players Musicians said to Battle Book have to awaken the Prince of Poo-Boken Postman, Peter the Person it is suggested each morningin Did I Ever Tell You How one might think about (“who crosses the ice Lucky You Are? / once every day / and on Saturdays, twice”)in Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! Poogle-Horn Stairs Steps the Poogle-Horn Players are said to have to descend in order pot 1: Among the things cited (“Waiting
• 99 • Potter, Mr. pudding
for . . . a pot to boil”) as reasons for people tral to the story’s developmentin “Yertle being at the Waiting Placein Oh, the Places the Turtle,” as part of Yertle the Turtle and You’ll Go! 2: Object (a teapot) involved in Other Stories the playing of the Cat’s Up-up-up and Fun- primping, fluffy-duff Activity Lord in-a-Box gamesin The Cat in the Hat 3: Godiva’s daughters, wasting little time on Place in which, the narrator says, a creature “frivol and froth,” are said not to pursuein called Yot is presentin There’s a Wocket in The Seven Lady Godivas My Pocket! Potter, Mr. Character said to be a “T-crosser” Prince of Poo-Boken Character said to be awakened each morning by the Poogle-Horn and “I-dotter” in Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? Players in Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? Powder, Poo-a-Doo Explosive said to be used (together with “ants’ eggs and bees’ Princes, Persian Characters that, as part of legs / and dried-fried clam chowder”) to Gerald McGrew’s fantasizing, it is said will carry a basket containing several creatures load the Yooks’ Kick-a-Poo Kid in The But- ter Battle Book “from the wilds of Nantasket” in If I Ran the Zoo Prax Place the prairie of which is the set- ting of the storyin “The Zax,” as part of Private, First Class Rank given the narra- The Sneetches and Other Stories tor when conscripted into military service by General Genghis Kahn Schmitzin I Had Preep One of the creatures Gerald McGrew Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew fantasizes about bringing back from Ka-Troo for McGrew Zooin If I Ran the Zoo Professor de Breeze Character said to have been long engaged in “trying to teach Irish President [of the United States] Govern- ducks how to read Jivvanese”in Did I Ever ment official about whom questions are Tell You How Lucky You Are? askedin The Cat’s Quizzer Proo One of the creatures Gerald McGrew price of ice Among the things the Cat in fantasizes about bringing back from Ka-Troo the Hat tells the young cat, “You can learn for McGrew Zooin If I Ran the Zoo about . . .”in I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! propeller Appendage (used “for rising / prickle-ly perch State and/or site of sus- And zooming around / Making cross-coun- pension in which, it is said, “You can get all try hops”) of “a big bug” Gerald McGrew hung up” in Oh, the Places You’ll Go! fantasizes about capturing for McGrew pride 1: Emotion central to the story’s Zooin If I Ran the Zoo developmentin “King Looie Katz,” as part Prune Picker’s Plight Among the ailments of I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories asked about by the Quiz-Docsin You’re 2: Emotion central to the story’s develop- Only Old Once! mentin “The Sneetches,” as part of The Sneetches and Other Stories 3: Emotion cen- pudding See: Who-pudding
• 100 • puddle Quandary
puddle Among the words featured as part Many Daves,” as part of The Sneetches and of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks Other Stories See also: muddle-dee-puddles puzzler Designation of the Grinch’s think- puffle Characterization of the manner of ing element (“he puzzled three hours, till his progression of the transportational creatures puzzler was sore”)in How the Grinch Stole called High Gargel-orumin On Beyond Zebra Christmas punches, crunchy hunchy Blows the nar- quacker-backer Characterization of the rator says were thrown when “things got function alternately assumed by the blue really out of hand” and “Wild hunches in duck and the black duck, and with regard to big bunches / were scrapping all around which the latter is said to be “quicker”in me”in Hunches in Bunches Oh Say Can You Say? punkerish place Characterization of a quacker-oo Creature cited (as part of a location where a person, it is suggested, phrase) in providing examples of use of the might be left behind, alone, as “something letter Q/qin Dr. Seuss’s ABC someone forgot”in Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? quacking Adjective employed (as part of a phrase) in providing examples of use of the pup and pups 1: Among the words featured letter Q/qin Dr. Seuss’s ABC for use as part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop 2: Characterization of the narrator’s quack-quacks Sounds exchanged by the dogin Hunches in Bunches 3: Among the blue duck and the black duckin Oh Say creatures cited as associated with a state of Can You Say? being “up”in Great Day for Up Quail, Green-Headed Alternative designa- puppy Pet cited (as part of a phrase) in tion of the Quilligan Quailin I Had Trouble providing examples of use of the letter P/p in Getting to Solla Sollew in Dr. Seuss’s ABC Quail, Quilligan Creature at the Valley of purple 1: Among the classifications of Vung that attacked the tail of the narrator days citedin My Many Colored Days in I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew 2: Among the hues about which the Cat in the Hat says, “I can read in . . .”in I Can Quail, Shade-Roosting Among the birds Read with My Eyes Shut! seen by Peter T. Hooper while searching for eggs, but which it proved “weren’t laying purple plum Among the foods the singer that day”in Scrambled Eggs Super! says he/she could eatin “The Super- Supper March,” as part of The Cat in the QUAN One of the letters of the extended Hat Song Book alphabet introduced by the narratorin On Beyond Zebra Putt-Putt Among the names it is said Mrs. McCave often wishes she had given Quandary Oceanic creature the name of one of her “twenty-three Daves”in “Too which is cited as a use for the letter QUAN
• 101 • Queen of Quincy rain
within the extended alphabet introduced by is suggested, left to be supplied on neckties the narratorin On Beyond Zebra in I Can Draw It Myself Queen of Quincy Monarch cited (as part of Quiz-Docs Characterization of Golden a phrase) in providing examples of use of the Years Clinic physicians concerned with seek- letter Q/qin Dr. Seuss’s ABC ing patients’ medical historiesin You’re Quest Alternative designation of the over- Only Old Once! all objective, Horse Truth Quest, constituting quizzing Action central to the book’s over- the story’s basic developmentin The Seven all coveragein The Cat’s Quizzer Lady Godivas Rabbit, Mr. Creature that contends boast- question marks Punctuation cited as being fully with Mr. Bear (“No ears in the world can among the “stuff” Circus McGurkus’s hear further than mine!”)in “The Big Brag,” Juggling Jott can successfully handlein as part of Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories If I Ran the Circus rabbits Animals the ears of which are cited questions Queries constituting the book’s as associated with a state of being “up”in overall coveragein The Cat’s Quizzer Great Day for Up Quibble, Miss Teacher at Diffendoofer race Activity (“a race / on a horse / on a School whose subject of instruction is ball / with a fish”) it is suggested one might “yelling” in Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! think aboutin Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! quick 1: Among the words featured as See also: No Laugh Race”, “The part of tongue-twisting texts in Fox in Socks racket Among the objects that were, it is 2: One of the conditions (“Quick feet”) of the suggested, left to be suppliedin I Can Draw subject covered in The Foot Book It Myself quick Queen of Quincy and her quacking radish Vegetable of Farmer Falkenberg (his quackeroo, The Phrase cited in providing “seventeenth radish”) referred to as part of examples of use of the letter Q/q in the lyrics of the old man’s songin Did I Dr. Seuss’s ABC Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? Quilligan Quail Creature at the Valley of rain 1: Among the things cited (“Waiting Vung that attacked the tail of the narrator for . . . the rain to go”) as reasons for people in I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew being at the Waiting Placein Oh, the Places Quimney Creature said to be found “up You’ll Go! 2: Element it is said King Derwin the chimney”in There’s a Wocket in My “growled at” throughout all of one spring, Pocket! but which ultimately he came to regard as one of “the four perfect things that come Quincy, Queen of Monarch cited (as part down from the sky”in Bartholomew and the of a phrase) in providing examples of use of Oobleck 3: Weather condition asked about, the letter Q/qin Dr. Seuss’s ABC as possibly being one within which to like quirkles Decorative elements that were, it and/or eat the food treated ofin Green Eggs
• 102 • rainbows redheads
and Ham 4: Among the things Mr. Brown Real Tough Hunch Creature-represented “can go like,” making the sounds “dibble” impulse that told the narrator, “You’re not and “dopp”in Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? going ANYwhere”in Hunches in Bunches rainbows Thing about which (with refer- Records, Keeper of the King’s Title of ence to Ireland) a “True or False” question is Sir Alaricin The 500 Hats of Bartholomew askedin The Cat’s Quizzer Cubbins “Rainy Day in Utica, N.Y.” Title of a red and reds 1: Among the colors it is sug- songin The Cat in the Hat Song Book gested one “can think about”in Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! 2: Among the hues Rajah Figure (“with rubies, perched high about which the Cat in the Hat says, “I can on a throne”) Marco fantasizes about seeing read in . . .” in I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! ride atop an elephant in And to Think That I 3: Among the various kinds and descrip- Saw It on Mulberry Street tions of fish citedin One Fish Two Fish Red rake and rakes 1: Among the objects Fish Blue Fish 4: Color cited (as part of a involved in the Cat’s Up-up-up gamein The sentence) in providing examples of use of the Cat in the Hat 2: Among the objects used letter R/r in Dr. Seuss’s ABC 5: Color of by the Little Cats to deal with the Snow one of the forms (“a red line”) and one of the Spotsin The Cat in the Hat Comes Back! balloons that were, it is suggested, left to be suppliedin I Can Draw It Myself 6: rap One of the representations of sounds Description of the pills about which it is said made (together with “boom,” “rattle tattle,” by the Pill Drill voice that they “. . . make my and “tap”) by the action described in eyebrows strong” and “I eat like popcorn all “Drummers Drumming,” as part of The day long.”in You’re Only Old Once! 7: Cat in the Hat Song Book One of the conditions (“Red feet”) of the sub- rattle tattle One of the representations of ject covered in The Foot Book See also: sounds made (together with “boom,” “rap,” bright red and “tap”) by the action described in Red Among the characters introduced, to “Drummers Drumming,” as part of The Cat be featured as part of a phrase or sentence in the Hat Song Book in Hop on Pop razz Seussian rendering of “raspberry”in red beet Among the foods the singer says “The Glunk That Got Thunk,” as part of I he/she could eatin “The Super-Supper Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories March,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book reading Action central to the book’s overall coveragein I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! Redd-Zoff, Jo and Mo Brothers character- ized as being World-Champion Sleep-Talkers read music Among the things the Cat in in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book the Hat tells the young cat he can, if open- eyed, learn how to doin I Can Read with My redheads Persons about whom a “True or Eyes Shut! False” question is askedin The Cat’s Quizzer
• 103 • redski Right-Side-Up . . .
redski Seussian rendering of “red” (devised tence) in providing examples of use of the to echo the final syllable of “Palooski”)in If letter R/rin Dr. Seuss’s ABC I Ran the Zoo Rhode Island Among the places, cited as reindeer One of the animals Marco fanta- having been confirmed by Principal sizes about seeing pull a vehiclein And to Grumm’s research, where daisies it is said Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street can growin Daisy-Head Mayzie Remarkable Foon Circus McGurkus side- rhubarb upside-down cake, deep dish show creature it is said “eats sizzling hot Among the foods the singer says he/she pebbles that fall off the moon”in If I Ran could eatin “The Super-Supper March,” as the Circus part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book Reno City between which and Rome the Ridge, Bumm Place cited as the point at mechanism for conducting the Audio-Telly- which Bunglebung Bridge will cross Boober o-Tally-o Count is said to be locatedin Bayin Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book Are? research Activity defined by Lady Dorcas riding Verb employed (as part of a sen- J.in The Seven Lady Godivas tence) in providing examples of use of the letter R/rin Dr. Seuss’s ABC Research, Lady of Characterization of Lady Dorcas J.in The Seven Lady Godivas right 1: One of the directions it is suggested one might “think,” as well also as about the Reservation, Official Katroo Birthday Pet reason “so many things / go” in that direc- Place at Katroo where creatures are kept to tionin Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! 2: be chosen from as a gift on one’s birthday One of the particularities (“Right foot”) of in Happy Birthday to You! the subject coveredin The Foot Book residence, country of Among the things right-and-three-quarters Expression of a about which information is to be provided possible alternative direction to one’s turn- by the volume’s purported authorin My ing “left or right”in Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Book About Me right eye Alternative means the Cat in the Revere, Paul Historic figure whose “fine Hat says he “can read with”in I Can Read horse” is wished “Happy Birthday likewise” with My Eyes Shut! in “Happy Birthday to Little Sally Spingel Right-Side-Up Butter Spungel Sporn,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Characterization Song Book associated with the country of the Yooks and various aspects of its societyin The Butter reviewing stand Structure occupied by the Battle Book Mayor and Aldermen, as part of Marco’s fan- Right-Side-Up Song Girls Musical group tasizingin And to Think That I Saw It on said to have been sent (together with the Mulberry Street Butter-Up Band) to energize and encourage rhinoceros Animal cited (as part of a sen- Grandpa after his encounter with VanItch
• 104 • ring in the tub rooster
and the Zooks’ Eight-Nozzled, Elephant- rock Object at the Valley of Vung by which Toted Boom-Blitzin The Butter Battle Book the narrator (“not looking where I was walk- ring in the tub Pink stain produced by the ing”) was tripped in I Had Trouble in Getting Cat’s having been in the bathtub, and the to Solla Sollew elimination of which causes a succession of Rolf Circus McGurkus walrus from the spot-removal actions central to the storyin Ocean of Olfin If I Ran the Circus The Cat in the Hat Comes Back! Roller-Skate-Skis Objects said to be worn Ring the Gack Designation of a game by Circus McGurkus’s man (Mr. Sneelock) cited in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish performing “an act of Enormous Enor- rink-rinker-fink Creature about which it is mance” in If I Ran the Circus asked, “Would you dare / yank a tooth / of Rome 1: Among the places, cited as hav- the / rink-rinker-fink?” in Oh, the Thinks ing been confirmed by Principal Grumm’s You Can Think! research, where daisies it is said can grow rippulous pond Description of the body of in Daisy-Head Mayzie 2: City between water said formerly to have been inhabited which and Reno the mechanism for conduct- by the Humming-Fishin The Lorax ing the Audio-Telly-o-Tally-o Count is said to be locatedin Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book river See: underground river Ronk Town giving its name to the Ruins in River, Roover Waterway on which the nar- rator, while fishing for Doubt-trout, encoun- which Gucky Gown is said to live in Did I tered again the “spooky pale green pants / Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? With nobody inside ’em”in “What Was I Ronk, Ruins of Place where (“ninety miles Scared Of?,” as part of The Sneetches and out of town”) Gucky Gown is said to livein Other Stories Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? River of Nobsk Waterway, as part of Ger- Room Number 8 Classroom of Mayzie ald McGrew’s fantasizing, said to be near the McGrew and her schoolmatesin Daisy- Mountains of Tobsk, habitat of the creature Head Mayzie called Obskin If I Ran the Zoo Room Six Sixty-three Location for con- River Wah-Hoo Waterway on the banks of ducting Pill Drill at the Golden Years which is situated the City of Solla Sollew in Clinicin You’re Only Old Once! I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew rooster and roosters 1: Among the crea- River Woo-Wall Waterway on the banks of tures cited as associated with a state of being which is said to be situated the city of Boola “up” in Great Day for Up 2: Among the Boo Ball in I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla creatures about which “A Night Quizzer” Sollew question is askedin The Cat’s Quizzer robin Bird said to be “stuck to her nest” by 3: Among the things the girl narrator cites the falling oobleckin Bartholomew and the by namein The Shape of Me and Other Stuff Oobleck 4: Among the things (“You can try with
• 105 • rooster that crows Ruins of Ronk
dogs and roosters.”) the narrator says will Royal Coachman Driver of King Derwin’s not cause him to leave his bedin I Am NOT carriagein The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Going to Get Up Today! 5: Among the things Cubbins Mr. Brown “can go like,” making the sound Royal Cook Member of King Derwin’s “cock a doodle doo” in Mr. Brown Can Moo! palace staff found to be trapped in the royal Can You? kitchen, “stuck to three stew pots, a tea cup rooster that crows Among the various and a cat” by the oobleckin Bartholomew kinds and descriptions of fish (“Like a roos- and the Oobleck ter that crows”) Marco speculates he might Royal Fiddlers Members of King Derwin’s catch in McElligot’s Pool palace staff found to be “stuck to their royal Roover River Waterway on which the nar- fiddles” by the oobleck in Bartholomew and rator, while fishing for Doubt-trout, encoun- the Oobleck tered again the “spooky pale green pants / Royal Laundress Member of King Derwin’s With nobody inside ’em”in “What Was I palace staff found to be “stuck tight to the Scared Of?,” as part of The Sneetches and clothesline” by the oobleckin Bartholomew Other Stories and the Oobleck Rope Soap Substance (also cited as Skrope) Royal Stables Structure adjacent to King recommended “to wash soup off a rope”in Derwin’s palacein Bartholomew and the Oh Say Can You Say? Oobleck rose and roses 1: Among the words fea- rubies Jewels worn by the Rajah (“perched tured as part of tongue-twisting textsin Fox high on a throne”) whom Marco fantasizes in Socks 2: Among the things (“how to about seeing ride atop an elephantin And smell roses”) the Cat in the Hat says, “You to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street can read about . . .” in I Can Read with My Ruffle-Necked Sala-ma-goox Among the Eyes Shut! birds the eggs of which Peter T. Hooper Ross, Rosy Robin Name cited in providing secured while seeking “Some fine fancy examples of use of the letter R/rin Dr. eggs that no other cook cooks” in Scrambled Seuss’s ABC Eggs Super! Rosy’s going riding on her red rhinoceros. rug 1: Among the objects between which Sentence cited in providing examples of use pink stains are transferred during the course of the letter R/rin Dr. Seuss’s ABC of the spot-removal actions central to the story’s developmentin The Cat in the Hat roust-about-joust Description of the comba- Comes Back! 2: Object under which, the tive action performed by Circus McGurkus’s narrator says, a creature called Vug is pres- Tournament Knightsin If I Ran the Circus entin There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! Row, Stethoscope Designation of a section Ruins of Ronk Place where (“ninety miles of doctors’ offices at the Golden Years Clinic out of town”) Gucky Gown is said to livein in You’re Only Old Once! Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?
• 106 • rumble, stumble carts Sam-I-am
rumble, stumble carts Vehicles identified sailors Among the persons that were, it is as the means to “Rumble, stumble, stumble suggested, left to be suppliedin I Can Draw home”in “Party Parting,” as part of The It Myself Cat in the Hat Song Book Saint Looey Place referred to by the parrot run Activity engaged in by some of the Hooey, as being where “your tongue may various creatures (“They run for fun / in the end up”in Oh Say Can You Say? hot, hot sun.”) citedin One Fish Two Fish Saint Nick Alternative designation of the Red Fish Blue Fish Christmas figure, Santa Claus, whose iden- runners Among the various kinds and tity the Grinch assumedin How the Grinch descriptions of creatures (“Here are some / Stole Christmas who like to run. . . .”) citedin One Fish Two St. Paul, Minnesota Among the cities at Fish Red Fish Blue Fish which the Circus Show exhibited Hortonin Russian Palooski Bird that Gerald Horton Hatches the Egg McGrew fantasizes about getting for Sala-ma-goo Place to which the Chief McGrew Zooin If I Ran the Zoo Yookeroo said the Yooks’ Bitsy Big-Boy sack Among the words featured as part of Boomer was capable of blowing “all those a tongue-twisting sentencein Oh Say Can Zooks”in The Butter Battle Book You Say? Sala-ma-goox, Ruffle-Necked Among the sad 1: Among the emotions the Cat in birds the eggs of which Peter T. Hooper the Hat tells the young cat, “You can learn secured while seeking “Some fine fancy about . . .”in I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! eggs that no other cook cooks”in Scrambled 2: Among the various kinds and descrip- Eggs Super! tions of fish citedin One Fish Two Fish Red Sala-ma-Sond, Island of Place of residence Fish Blue Fish 3: Among the words fea- of Yertlein “Yertle the Turtle,” as part of tured for use as part of a phrase or Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories sentencein Hop on Pop 4: What the narra- tor says “I’m” on “Purple Days”in My Sally 1: Sister of the unnamed narrator of Many Colored Days the storyin The Cat in the Hat 2: Sister of the unnamed narrator of the storyin The saddle Object involved in one of the sub- Cat in the Hat Comes Back! jects (“how to put a saddle / On a lizard or a leopard”) taught by Miss Vining at Sambaland Place far-distant (“five hun- Diffendoofer Schoolin Hooray for Diffen- dred miles away”) from the Kingdom of doofer Day! Binn, where the noise of the battle between the Patrol Cats and the Nizzards is said to sail, fins like a Among the various kinds have been heardin The King’s Stilts and descriptions of fish (“Who has fins like a sail”) Marco speculates he might catchin Sam-I-am Character who questions an McElligot’s Pool unnamed respondent about liking and/or
• 107 • Santa Claus Score
eating the food upon which the book’s dia- schlupp What the narrator is called by the logue centersin Green Eggs and Ham Up Hunch for his having followed the Nowhere Hunch around “in circles”in Santa Claus and Santy Claus Christmas Hunches in Bunches figure the Grinch impersonatedin How the Grinch Stole Christmas Schmidt, Dr. Among the Golden Years Clinic physicians said to have been medalists Sard, Ali Character it is said must “mow “in the Internal Organs Olympics last year” grass in his uncle’s back yard”in Did I Ever in You’re Only Old Once! Tell You How Lucky You Are? Schmitz, General Genghis Kahn Charac- sardine Aquatic creature (together with a ter who rescued the narrator from the whale) referred to, comparatively, by Marco “flubbulous flood,” and then conscripted when describing a Thing-a-ma-jiggerin him into military servicein I Had Trouble in McElligot’s Pool Getting to Solla Sollew sat Among the words featured for use as Schnack Creature cited as part of a tongue- part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop twisting sentence, and as being “in the sack sausage-paste butter, peppermint cucumber on my back”in Oh Say Can You Say? Substance said to be used at Katroo by the Schnopp, Ham-ikka-Schnim-ikka-Schnam- bakers Snookers and Snookers to produce ikka Creature ridden on by Peter T. Hooper their Big Birthday Party cakein Happy while securing eggs of the three-eyelashed Birthday to You! Tizzyin Scrambled Eggs Super! Saw Fish Among the aquatic creatures Schnutz-berry Fruit that it is said by the Marco speculates he might catchin Glunk may be used as an alternative ingredi- McElligot’s Pool ent for “berries, razz” when making Glunker say 1: Among the words featured as part Stewin “The Glunk That Got Thunk,” as of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks part of I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other 2: Among the words featured for use as part Stories of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop school 1: Among the subjects about which schlopp Food (“Beautiful schlopp / with a information is to be provided by the vol- cherry on top”) it is suggested one “can think ume’s purported authorin My Book About about”in Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! Me 2: Main setting of the storyin Daisy- Head Mayzie See also: Diffendoofer School; Schloppity-Schlopp One of the pollutants South-Going School said to have been created (“this leftover goo”) by the Once-ler’s factoryin The Lorax Schwinn mandolin Musical instrument of extraordinary features, said to be possessed Schlottz, Crumple-horn, Web-footed, Green- by Gretchen von Schwinnin Oh Say Can bearded Creature the tail of which is said You Say? to be “entailed with un-solvable knots”in Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? Score See: Who’s-Asleep-Score
• 108 • scraggle-foot Mulligatawny SeptUmber
scraggle-foot Mulligatawny Creature (“A ner of exchanging greetings, on one’s birth- high-stepping animal fast as the wind”) Ger- day, with the Birthday Bird of Katrooin ald McGrew fantasizes about capturing for Happy Birthday to You! McGrew Zooin If I Ran the Zoo secrets Among the things (“Some Secret scrambled eggs Food central to the story Things”) about which information is to be and about which Peter T. Hooper declares, provided by the volume’s purported “And so I decided that, just for a change, / authorin My Book About Me I’d scramble a new kind of egg on the see and sees 1: Among the words featured range.”in Scrambled Eggs Super! for use as part of a phrase or sentencein Scrambled eggs Super-dee-Dooper-dee- Hop on Pop 2: Among the words featured Booper, Special de luxe à-la-Peter T. Hooper as part of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Designation of Peter T. Hooper’s creation, Socks characterized as “a scramble more super than Seed, Truffula Reproductive means (“the super”in Scrambled Eggs Super! last one of all”) said to have been saved by Screebees Exclamation of surprise uttered the Once-ler, for the regeneration of the by Sir Snippsin The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Truffula Treesin The Lorax Cubbins seeds, cinnamon Objects it is said the sea 1: Part of the overall domain, together creature called Glikker “spends his time with the land, that King Yertle ultimately juggling,” except during “the month of declares has become his, as “the world’s SeptUmber”in On Beyond Zebra highest turtle”in “Yertle the Turtle,” as Seeds, Zizzer-Zoof Objects of which it is part of Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories 2: said “nobody wants because nobody Body of water Marco speculates might, by needs”in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book “An underground river,” be connected to his fishing sitein McElligot’s Pool seeds of cucumber Objects it is said the creature called Glikker juggles during “the Sea Horse Among the aquatic creatures month of SeptUmber / When cinnamon Marco speculates he might catchin seeds aren’t around in great number”in McElligot’s Pool On Beyond Zebra seals Among the creatures cited as associ- seehemewe Quiz element, of combined ated with a state of being “up”in Great Day words, citedin Hop on Pop for Up See also: circus seal Seersucker One of the creatures Gerald SECRET-EST BRAIN NEST, TOP-EST McGrew fantasizes about bringing back from Sign on the entrance of the working area of Ka-Troo for McGrew Zooin If I Ran the Zoo the Chief Yookeroo’s Bright Back Room Boysin The Butter Battle Book sent Among the words featured for use as part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop Secret Katroo Birthday Hi-Sign-and-Shake Characterization of the finger-and-toe man- SeptUmber Month when, with reference to
• 109 • Sergeant Mulvaney ship
the Glikker’s juggling of “fresh cinnamon shake Among the things (“You can shake seeds,” it is said “cinnamon seeds aren’t my bed.”) the narrator says will not cause around in great number” and, accordingly, him to leave his bedin I Am NOT Going to “that month he juggles with seeds of cucum- Get Up Today! ber”in On Beyond Zebra shame Among the words featured as part Sergeant Mulvaney Officer who leads the of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks police that are part of Marco’s fantasizing shapes Subject of the book’s coveragein in And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street The Shape of Me and Other Stuff sew and sews Among the words featured shawnt Seussian rendering of “shan’t” as part of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in (devised to rhyme with “want”)in Happy Socks Birthday to You! Sfindex Name on a sign (“vote for sheep Animals said to have been seen sfindex”) carried by one of the birds in the sleepwalkingin One Fish Two Fish Red Fish tunnel where the narrator stayed after escap- Blue Fish ing from the Perilous Poozersin I Had Trou- ble in Getting to Solla Sollew shelf Place on which, the narrator says, a creature called Zelf is presentin There’s a shack Among the words featured as part of Wocket in My Pocket! a tongue-twisting sentencein Oh Say Can You Say? shell Body covering of “a great-great-great- / grandfather snail” that (together with Shade-Roosting Quail Among the birds “fifteen cents / and a nail”) it is said must be seen by Peter T. Hooper while searching for tossed into the Once-ler’s “tin pail” to hear eggs, but which it proved “weren’t laying from him “how the Lorax was lifted away” that day”in Scrambled Eggs Super! in The Lorax shadow 1: Among the things about which Shingle, Single Object the cost of which is “True or False” questions are askedin The compared with that of a Simple Thimblein Cat’s Quizzer 2: Reflected image “any” of Oh Say Can You Say? which Harry Haddow is said not to be able to “make”in Did I Ever tell You How Lucky shin-pin bin Container used by Pinner You Are? Blinn in which to carry his “Blinn shinbone pin” devicesin Oh Say Can You Say? Shadrack Among the names it is said Mrs. McCave often wishes she had given one of her Shins One of the areas (together with “twenty-three Daves”in “Too Many Daves,” Antrums) constituting the medical specialty as part of The Sneetches and Other Stories of Dr. Ginnsin You’re Only Old Once! shaggy bears Among the kinds of bears ship and ships 1: Among the things it is with which Uncle Terwilliger is said to dance suggested one can “Think a”in Oh, the in “My Uncle Terwilliger Waltzes with Thinks You Can Think! 2: Among the things Bears,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book the boy narrator cites by namein The Shape
• 110 • shlump sing
of Me and Other Stuff See also: toy ship zations of Circus McGurkusin If I Ran the Circus shlump Characterization of the nightly breaking-down action of Mr. Bix’s Borfinin Shuffle One of the conjuring words from Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? the magicians’ incantation beginning “Shuffle, duffle, muzzle, muff”in Bartholomew and shoe and shoes 1: Among the means of the Oobleck conveyance (“in an old blue shoe”) sug- gested for departurein Marvin K. Mooney shut See: eyes shut Will You Please Go Now! 2: Among the sick 1: Among the words featured as part things particularly cited and commented of tongue-twisting texts in Fox in Socks upon as features of a story in One Fish Two 2: Condition cited (as part of a sentence) in Fish Red Fish Blue Fish 3: Among the providing examples of use of the letter S/s objects (“Dad’s $10 shoes”) between which in Dr. Seuss’s ABC 3: One of the condi- pink stains are transferred during the course tions (“Sick feet”) of the subject coveredin of the spot-removal actions central to the The Foot Book story’s developmentin The Cat in the Hat Comes Back! See also: horseshoes; squeaky Side Shows Components of Circus shoe McGurkus, featuring several individual pre- sentations, including those of Stage One, shop, tailor Source of Eric’s disguise fol- Stage Number Two, and Stage Number lowing his escape from having been “locked Fourin If I Ran the Circus up in an old deserted house on the edge of the town”in The King’s Stilts sight Ability central to the worm’s ridicul- ing of the boastfulness of Mr. Rabbit and Mr. short Among the various kinds and descrip- Bearin “The Big Brag,” as part of Yertle the tions of fish Marco speculates he might catch Turtle and Other Stories in McElligot’s Pool Silly Sammy Slick sipped six sodas and got Short Giant Character (together with a Tall sick sick sick. Sentence cited in providing Pigmy) central to a question asked in The examples of use of the letter S/sin Dr. Cat’s Quizzer Seuss’s ABC shouldsters Seussian rendering of “shoul- Simple Thimble Object the cost of which is ders” (devised to rhyme with “oldsters”) in compared with that of a Single Shinglein If I Ran the Circus Oh Say Can You Say? Show, World’s Greatest One of the charac- Sinatra, Dr. Among the Golden Years terizations of Circus McGurkus in If I Ran Clinic physicians said to have been medalists the Circus “in the Internal Organs Olympics last shower Place in which, the narrator says, a year”in You’re Only Old Once! creature called Zower is present in There’s a sing 1: Action the narrator says it is fun to Wocket in My Pocket! engage in with the creature called Yingin Show of All Shows One of the characteri- One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish 2:
• 111 • singing Skeegle-mobile
Among the words featured for use as part of Daves”in “Too Many Daves,” as part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop 3: The Sneetches and Other Stories What it is said Miss Bonkers at Diffendoofer sister and sisters 1: Among the words fea- School once “taught a duck” to doin tured for use as part of a phrase or sentence Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! See also: “Let in Hop on Pop 2: Principal character of Us All Sing”; Who-Christmas-Sing the story and sibling of its narrator, the Cat singing 1: Action cited as associated with in the Hatin “The Glunk That Got Thunk,” a state (for birds perched “on a wire”) of as part of I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other being “up”in Great Day for Up 2: Vocal Stories 3: Sally, sibling of the unnamed nar- action central to the book’s overall rator of the storyin The Cat in the Hat coveragein The Cat in the Hat Song Book 4: Sally, sibling of the unnamed narrator of the storyin The Cat in the Hat Comes Back! Single-File Zummzian Zuks Ducks a See also: Godiva Sisters; Herk-Heimer Sisters quantity of the eggs of which were sent to Peter T. Hooper by “some fellows in Sit Illuminatus Equus Motto (“Let the Zummz”in Scrambled Eggs Super! Horse Be Illuminated”) displayed on the seal or coat of arms of the Godivasin The Seven Single Shingle Object the cost of which is Lady Godivas compared with that of a Simple Thimblein Oh Say Can You Say? six 1: Among the words featured as part of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks sink and sinks 1: Among the “Daisy- 2: Quantity cited (as part of a sentence) in Head” products said to have been created providing examples of use of the letter commercially when “Daisy-Head fever was S/sin Dr. Seuss’s ABC gripping the nation”in Daisy-Head Mayzie 2: Place in which, the narrator says, a crea- 6:56 a.m. Time at which “Horton’s clover” ture called Nink is presentin There’s a was dropped by the black-bottomed eagle Wocket in My Pocket! into “a great patch of clovers a hundred miles wide”in Horton Hears a Who! sipped Verb employed (as part of a sen- tence) in providing examples of use of the six-footed Among the various kinds and letter S/sin Dr. Seuss’s ABC descriptions of creatures citedin One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish sir Among the words featured as part of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks sizzle Sound made by Mr. Brown, “like an egg in a frying pan”in Mr. Brown Can Moo! Sir See: Alaric, Sir; Beers, Sir; Bopps, Sir; Can You? Dawkins, Sir; Hawkins, Sir; Hector, Sir; Jawks, Sir; Jeers, Sir; Snipps, Sir; Vector, skates Among the means of conveyance Sir (“go / on skates”) suggested for departure in Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! Sir Michael Carmichael Zutt Among the names it is said Mrs. McCave often wishes Skeegle-mobile Vehicle Gerald McGrew she had given one of her “twenty-three fantasizes about having for use “Up past the
• 112 • Skipper slingshotted
North Pole, where the frozen winds squeal” in “with our pet Zeep”in One Fish Two Fish in If I Ran the Zoo Red Fish Blue Fish Skipper One of the Fuddnuddler Brothers sleeping in Condition central to the story in Oh Say Can You Say? in I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! Skipper Zipp’s Clipper Ship Chip Chop Sleep-Talkers, World-Champion Character- Shop Eating place of which Skipper Zipp is ization of Jo and Mo Redd-Zoffin Dr. Seuss’s proprietorin Oh Say Can You Say? Sleep Book skis Among the means of conveyance (“go sleep-trotting Nighttime activity engaged / on skis”) suggested for departurein Mar- in by Lady Arabella on her horse Brutusin vin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! See The Seven Lady Godivas also: on skis; Roller-Skate-Skis sleepwalking Nighttime activity engaged Skrink Creature at the Valley of Vung that in by “some sheep” cited as having been attacked the toe of the narratorin I Had seen in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew sleepy Condition attributed to five tigers Skritz Creature at the Valley of Vung that the Cat in the Hat dismisses from contention attacked the neck of the narratorin I Had in “I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today!,” as part of Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories Skrope Substance (also cited as Rope Soap) sleigh One of the vehicles (“a fancy sled”) recommended “to wash soup off a rope”in Marco fantasizes about seeing pulled in Oh Say Can you Say? And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street slick Among the words featured as part of Skrux Component part of Herbie Hart’s Throm-dim-bu-latorin Did I Ever Tell You tongue-twisting texts in Fox in Socks How Lucky You Are? Slick, Silly Sammy Name cited (as part of a sentence) in providing examples of use of sky Focus of King Derwin’s anger during all of one yearin Bartholomew and the the letter S/s in Dr. Seuss’s ABC Oobleck See also: white sky slicker, chap in a Character encountered sled Alternative designation of one of the by the narrator during the course of the Mid- vehicles (a sleigh) Marco fantasizes about winter Jicker, and whose house he temporar- I Had Trouble in Getting to seeing pulledin And to Think That I Saw It ily occupied in on Mulberry Street Solla Sollew Slim Jim Swim Fins sleep 1: Among the subjects about which Objects a set of which information is to be provided by the vol- it is said could be “the perfect Christmas Oh ume’s purported authorin My Book About gift” for a father having the name Jim in Say Can You Say? Me 2: Subject of the book’s coveragein Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book 3: What the narrator slingshotted Designation of the means by declares will, it now being time, be engaged which “a very rude Zook by the name of
• 113 • Slinkey Smoot, Dr.
VanItch” is said to have destroyed Grandpa’s small 1: Among the words featured for Snick-Berry Switchin The Butter Battle Book use as part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop 2: One of the particularities (“Small Slinkey One of the Fuddnuddler feet”) of the subject coveredin The Foot Book Brothersin Oh Say Can You Say? Smallest of All Characterization of the Slippard, Key-Slapping Creature that prevented the unlocking of the entryway Who named Jo-Jo in Horton Hears a Who! (“There is only one door. . . .”) to the City of smeary Characterization by the Lorax of Solla Sollew in I Had Trouble in Getting to polluted state of the water of “the pond Solla Sollew where the Humming-Fish hummed”in slow 1: Among the various kinds and The Lorax descriptions of creatures cited in One Fish smell 1: Among the things (“how to smell Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish 2: Among the roses”) the Cat in the Hat says, “You can words featured as part of tongue-twisting read about...”in I Can Read with My Eyes texts in Fox in Socks 3: One of the condi- Shut! 2: Sense central to Mr. Bear’s boast- tions (“Slow feet”) of the subject covered in fulnessin “The Big Brag,” as part of Yertle The Foot Book 4: What the narrator says “I the Turtle and Other Stories feel” (“slow / and low, / low / down”) on days that “feel sort of Brown”in My Many smelling Subject taught by Miss Wobble Colored Days at Diffendoofer Schoolin Hooray for Diffen- doofer Day! slow-and-sour Characterization of the cur- rent smell of the wind “At the far end of smogged-up Action of air pollution said to town”in The Lorax have been caused by the Once-ler and result- ing in the Lorax’s “sending . . . off” the Slow Joe Crow Creature that relates to a Swomee-Swansin The Lorax segment of the presentation of tongue- twisting textsin Fox in Socks smogulous smoke Description of the air pollution said to have been created by the Slump Place where it is said “you’ll be in” after descending from a Lurch “with an un- Once-ler’s factory in The Lorax pleasant bump”in Oh, the Places You’ll Go! smoke Among the things the girl narrator slupp Sound and action of the lowering cites by name in The Shape of Me and Other of the Once-ler’s Whisper-ma-Phonein Stuff See also: smogulous smoke The Lorax smoke-smuggered Characterization by the slurp Sound made by Mr. Brown, “like a Once-ler of the polluted atmosphere sur- big cat drinking”in Mr. Brown Can Moo! rounding the starsin The Lorax Can You? Smoot, Dr. Among the Golden Years Clinic smacker Seussian rendering of “smack” physicians said to have been medalists “in (devised to rhyme with “Hacker”)in the Internal Organs Olympics last year”in The Lorax You’re Only Old Once!
• 114 • Smorgasbord Sneggs
Smorgasbord Creature on the back of alphabet introduced by the narratorin On which, while riding to Katroo, one is said to Beyond Zebra dinein Happy Birthday to You! Sneeden’s Hotel Hostelry referred to by snack Among the words featured for use Marco during his speculationsin as part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop McElligot’s Pool snaff Among the characterizations (paired Sneedle Creature the name of which is with “snuff”) of Mr. Bear’s actions while cited as a use for the letter SNEE within the demonstrating the proficiency of his sense of extended alphabet introduced by the narra- smellin “The Big Brag,” as part of Yertle the torin On Beyond Zebra Turtle and Other Stories Sneelock, Mr. Store proprietor who, as snail, great-great-great-grandfather Ani- part of Morris McGurk’s fantasy, is expected mal the shell of which (together with “fifteen to “help out doing small odds and ends” for cents / and a nail”) it is said must be tossed Circus McGurkus, and to whom are also into the Once-ler’s “tin pail” to hear from assigned various featured rolesin If I Ran him “how the Lorax was lifted away”in the Circus The Lorax Sneelock’s Store Emporium behind which, snails 1: Among the creatures about which “in the big vacant lot,” Circus McGurkus is, “True or False” questions are askedin The as part of Morris McGurk’s fantasy, to be Cat’s Quizzer 2: Among the creatures cited locatedin If I Ran the Circus as associated with a state of being “up”in Sneepy Among the names it is said Mrs. Great Day for Up McCave often wishes she had given one of Snake See: Jake the Pillow Snake her “twenty-three Daves”in “Too Many Daves,” as part of The Sneetches and Other snarggled Description of one of the chok- Stories ing sounds said to have been made by the Lorax because of the Once-ler’s “making Sneetcher, Miss Schoolteacher of Mayzie such smogulous smoke”in The Lorax McGrew and her classmatesin Daisy-Head Mayzie Snarp, Harp-Twanging Creatures that, “on top of the Flummox,” will it is said “twang Sneetches Principal creatures of the story, mighty twangs on their Three-Snarper-Harp,” originally existing in two varieties, Star-Belly as part of Circus McGurkus’s Parade-of- and Plain-Bellyin “The Sneetches,” as part Paradesin If I Ran the Circus of The Sneetches and Other Stories Snatchem, Jigger-Rock Zook combat sneezing Action that is the song’s subject mechanism said to have been created in in “Ah-a-a-a-a-a-h . . . Choo,” as part of response to the Yooks’ development of the The Cat in the Hat Song Book Triple-Sling Jiggerin The Butter Battle Book Sneggs Creature certain parts of which SNEE One of the letters of the extended (“top-knot, his tail and some legs”) were, it is
• 115 • Snell, Dr. Sam snop
suggested, left to be suppliedin I Can Draw Snimm Among the names it is said Mrs. It Myself McCave often wishes she had given one of her “twenty-three Daves”in “Too Many Snell, Dr. Sam Physician who examined Daves,” as part of The Sneetches and Other the camel and diagnosed its illness as “a bad Stories case of gleeks”in I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew Snipe, Soobrian Circus McGurkus creatures by which it is said Great Daredevil Sneelock snergelly hose Characterization of the “comes pulled through the air . . . / On a transmission line of the Once-ler’s Whisper- dingus contraption attached to his pipe” ma-Phone in The Lorax in If I Ran the Circus snerl Seussian rendering of “snarl” (de- snipping snoppers Devices that “Snip and vised to rhyme with “Thwerll”) in If I Ran snop,” as used by Who-Bubs while gathering the Zoo Birthday Flower Jungle bloomsin Happy Sneth, Moth-Watching Bird “so big she Birthday to You! scares people to death,” the egg of which Snipps, Sir “Maker of hats for all the fine was secured by Peter T. Hooper in lords” at the Kingdom of Diddin The 500 Scrambled Eggs Super! Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins Snick-Berry Switch Device, described as Snoo Creature named Foo-Foo, which the “tough-tufted / prickely” in nature, that Cat in the Hat tells the young cat he will, if Grandpa says he, at an early stage, used open-eyed, learn “all about”in I Can Read against any Zook “If he dared to come with My Eyes Shut! close”in The Butter Battle Book Snookers and Snookers Bakers said to Snide Fruit the narrator went to “a dark have been designated as the Official Katroo and gloomy Snide-field” to pick in “What Happy Birthday Cake Cookersin Happy Was I Scared Of?,” as part of The Sneetches Birthday to You! and Other Stories Snoor Component part of Herbie Hart’s Snide bush Shrub inside of which the nar- Throm-dim-bu-latorin Did I Ever Tell You rator encountered “face to face” the “spooky, How Lucky You Are? empty pants”in “What Was I Scared Of?,” as part of The Sneetches and Other Stories snoozy, woozy and woozy-snoozing Among the narrator’s characterizations of Sniffer, Diet-Devising Computerized his intended “sleeping in” statein I Am Characterization of the Golden Years Clinic’s NOT Going to Get Up Today! Wuff-Whifferin You’re Only Old Once! snop Description of one of the actions Sniff-Scan Description of the function per- employed (together with “clip,” “clop,” formed by the Wuff-Whiffer in determining “nip,” “nop,” and “snip”) by the Who-Bubs for Dietician Von Eiffel “the foods you like when gathering Birthday Flower Jungle most”in You’re Only Old Once! bloomsin Happy Birthday to You!
• 116 • snoppers, snipping Socks Fox, Mr.
snoppers, snipping Devices that “Snip and Snumm, Drum-Tummied Circus McGurkus snop,” as used by Who-Bubs while gathering creature it is said “can drum any tune / That Birthday Flower Jungle bloomsin Happy you might care to hum”in If I Ran the Circus Birthday to You! snuvs Creatures it is suggested one “can Snore-a-Snort Band Group, including think about” (“about snuvs and their Snorter McPhail, characterized as being gloves”)in Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! “The snortiest snorers in all our fair land” Snuvv Once-ler’s place for the safekeeping in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book of objects (“his secret strange hole / in his snorers, snortiest Characterization of gruvvulous glove”)in The Lorax Snorter McPhail and his Snore-a-Snort Bandin Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book Snux Component part of Herbie Hart’s Throm-dim-bu-latorin Did I Ever Tell You Snorter McPhail Snorer said to be “loudest How Lucky You Are? of all,” and who “snores with his head in a three-gallon pail”in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book Soak Suds, Soapy Cooper’s Super Soup- Off-Hoops Substance (also cited as Hoop snortiest snorers Characterization of Soap) recommended “to wash soup off a Snorter McPhail and his Snore-a-Snort Band hoop”in Oh Say Can You Say? in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book So am I Sentence cited in providing exam- snow 1: Among the things cited (“Waiting ples of use of the letter I/iin Dr. Seuss’s ABC for . . . the snow to snow”) as reasons for people being at the Waiting Placein Oh, the Soap See: Hoop Soap; Rope Soap Places You’ll Go! 2: Element central to both Soapy Cooper’s Super Soup-Off-Hoops the story’s beginning and its conclusion in Soak Suds Substance (also cited as Hoop The Cat in the Hat Comes Back! 3: Element it Soap) recommended “to wash soup off a is said King Derwin protested about during hoop”in Oh Say Can You Say? one particular winter, but which ultimately he came to regard as one of “the four perfect soccer balls Among the things about which things that come down from the sky”in questions are asked in The Cat’s Quizzer Bartholomew and the Oobleck social discrimination Attitude central to snow balls One of the forms into which the the story’s developmentin “The Sneetches,” Little Cats transformed the Snow Spotsin as part of The Sneetches and Other Stories The Cat in the Hat Comes Back! socks 1: Among the words featured as part snow men One of the forms into which the of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks Little Cats transformed the Snow Spotsin 2: Garments central to the song’s subjectin The Cat in the Hat Comes Back! “The Left-Sock Thievers,” as part of The Cat Snow Spots Pink stains outdoors, resulting in the Hat Song Book See also: Gox box socks; from the spot-removal actions indoors of Lit- left sock; Left-Sock Thievers”, “The tle Cats A, B, and Cin The Cat in the Hat Socks Fox, Mr. Alternative designation of Comes Back! Mr. Foxin Fox in Socks
• 117 • sodas Sour Hunch
sodas Drinks cited (as part of a sentence) in about which information is to be provided providing examples of use of the letter by the volume’s purported authorin My S/sin Dr. Seuss’s ABC Book About Me 3: Elements constituting the volume’s contentsin The Cat in the Hat Song sofa Piece of furniture on which, the narra- Book tor says, a creature called Bofa is presentin There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! Song Girls, Right-Side-Up Musical group said to have been sent (together with the soft-tufted barber shop poles Among the Butter-Up Band) to energize and encourage places where or on which creatures are said Grandpa after his encounter with VanItch to be sleepingin Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book and the Zooks’ Eight-Nozzled, Elephant- Soggy Muff Among the names it is said Toted Boom-Blitzin The Butter Battle Book Mrs. McCave often wishes she had given one Soobrian Snipe Circus McGurkus creatures of her “twenty-three Daves”in “Too Many by which it is said Great Daredevil Sneelock Daves,” as part of The Sneetches and Other “comes pulled through the air . . . / On a Stories dingus contraption attached to his pipe”in Solla Sollew, City of Place to which the If I Ran the Circus narrator travels, “Where they never have “sorry” See: “I’m sorry” troubles, at least very few”in I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew sort-of-a-hen Characterization of a “new” creature (one which “upward and onward” Solvency Test, Eyesight and Examination habitually “roosts in another hen’s topknot”) for which the unnamed principal character that Gerald McGrew fantasizes about having of the story is told he has come to the Golden at McGrew Zooin If I Ran the Zoo Years Clinicin You’re Only Old Once! Sounding-Off Place, Official Katroo Birthday some Among the words featured as part of Location at Katroo (“the top of the toppest tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks blue space”) said to be for shouting on one’s Somebodies Characterization of Sally and birthday “I AM I”in Happy Birthday to You! her brother, the narrator of the story, as hav- Soup See: Hoop-Soup-Snoop Group; ing been their mother’s choices to clear away Soapy Cooper’s Super Soup-Off-Hoops Soak the snowin The Cat in the Hat Comes Back! Suds “Somebody Stole My Hoo-to Foo-to Boo-to sourgrass Element of the overgrowth pres- Bah!” Title of a songin The Cat in the Hat ent at decaying Castle Godiva by the time of Song Book Lady Hedwig’s Horse Truth discoveryin Something See: Big Something; Fine- The Seven Lady Godivas Something-That-All-People-Need Sour Hunch Creature-represented impulse song and songs 1: Among the words fea- that insists the narrator immediately attend tured for use as part of a phrase or sentence to oiling his rusting bicycle, rather than go in Hop on Pop 2: Among the subjects off to playin Hunches in Bunches
• 118 • South Boston speedy
South Boston Among the places, cited as research, where daisies it is said can grow having been confirmed by Principal in Daisy-Head Mayzie 2: One of the coun- Grumm’s research, where daisies it is said tries about which the narrator declares, indif- can growin Daisy-Head Mayzie ferently, “Let the kids get up”in I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! South Bounce Place at which stops are said to be made along the transportation route of spaniel, gun-toting and Spaniel, Kick-a-Poo the creatures called High Gargel-orumin Alternative characterizations of the dog On Beyond Zebra named Daniel, said to have been trained to carry the Yooks’ Kick-a-Poo Kidin The But- South Carolina State within a certain area ter Battle Book of which, as part of Gerald McGrew’s fanta- sizing, is said to live “a very fine animal / SPAZZ One of the letters of the extended Called the Iota” (ones “even much finer” alphabet introduced by the narratorin On than those from an area of North Dakota) Beyond Zebra in If I Ran the Zoo Spazzim Creature the name of which is South-Going School Institution at which cited as a use for the letter SPAZZ within the during boyhood the South-Going Zax is said extended alphabet introduced by the narra- to have learned the rule “Never budge!”in torin On Beyond Zebra “The Zax,” as part of The Sneetches and Other Stories spears, boxing glove Weapons used for their “roust-about-joust” by Circus South-Going Zax Creature (together with McGurkus’s Tournament Knightsin If I the North-Going Zax) central to the storyin Ran the Circus “The Zax,” as part of The Sneetches and Other Stories speckled browns Description of the pills of which it is said by the Pill Drill voice that South Stitch Place cited by the Once-ler in they “. . . are what I keep / beside my bed to giving directions to his relatives for finding help me sleep”in You’re Only Old Once! their way to himin The Lorax speck of dust Particle Horton encounters South-West-Facing Cranes Birds (about “blowing past through the air” and “that is which it is said that one, “when she’s guard- able to yell”in Horton Hears a Who! ing her nest, / Will always stand facing pre- cisely South West”) eggs of which were speck-voice Characterization of the sound secured by Peter T. Hooperin Scrambled emanating from the “small speck of dust” Eggs Super! that Horton undertakes to protectin Horton Hears a Who! spaghetti Among the foods about which “Food Quiz” questions are askedin The speculation Mental activity central to the Cat’s Quizzer fantasizing of Marcoin McElligot’s Pool Spain 1: Among the places, cited as hav- speedy Manner of reading the Cat in the ing been confirmed by Principal Grumm’s Hat says is necessary “’cause there’s so, so
• 119 • spelling squeaky shoe
much to read”in I Can Read with My Eyes the story’s developmentin The Cat in the Shut! Hat Comes Back! 3: Black markings “lots of” which are said to be present on a spelling Activity involved in the narrator’s Glotzin Oh Say Can You Say? See also: illustration of uses for the letters within the Snow Spots extended alphabet introducedin On Beyond Zebra Spotted Atrocious Circus McGurkus crea- Spider See: Tree-Spider ture it is said “chews up and eats with the greatest of ease / Things like carpets and spider webs Among the things the girl nar- sidewalks and people and trees”in If I Ran rator cites by namein The Shape of Me and the Circus Other Stuff Spout-Rider One of several Circus spinach Vegetable got at Grin-itch by the McGurkus titles accorded Mr. Sneelock narrator in “What Was I Scared Of?,” as in If I Ran the Circus part of The Sneetches and Other Stories Spreaders, Bed and Spreaders, Bread splatt Sound made by Mr. Brown, like the Characters who are said to spread, respec- noise of lightning in Mr. Brown Can Moo! tively, “spreads on beds” and “butters on Can You? breads”in Oh Say Can You Say? Spleen Readjustment and Muffler Repair Spreckles, Dr. Golden Years Clinic physi- Medical specialty of the Golden Years cian “who does the Three F’sFootsies, Fun- Clinicin You’re Only Old Once! gus, and Freckles”in You’re Only Old Once! Spookish Hunch Creature-represented impulse that proposed the narrator “go four Spritz Among the birds seen by Peter T. ways all at once”in Hunches in Bunches Hooper while searching for eggs, but which it proved “weren’t laying that day”in spoon Among the things about which Scrambled Eggs Super! questions are askedin The Cat’s Quizzer spuggle Description of one of the actions Sporn, Sally Spingel Spungel Character involved in mixing the ingredients of serenaded by the song in “Happy Birthday Glunker Stewin “The Glunk That Got to Little Sally Spingel Spungel Sporn,” as Thunk,” as part of I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book and Other Stories sports Among the subjects about which Sputter Alternative designation of the information is to be provided by the volume’s Utterly Sputterin The Butter Battle Book purported authorin My Book About Me Square See: Century Square; Who-ville spots 1: Decorative elements that were, it Town Square is suggested, left to be supplied on neckties in I Can Draw It Myself 2: Stains trans- squeaky shoe Among the things Mr. ferred from one object or surface to another Brown “can go like,” making the sound during the spot-removal actions central to “eek”in Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?
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squiggilies Among the forms that were, it the storyin “The Sneetches,” as part of The is suggested, left to be suppliedin I Can Sneetches and Other Stories Draw It Myself Stare-Eyes Game about the playing of squirrels Among Thidwick’s antler-riding which questions are askedin The Cat’s creaturesin Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose Quizzer Squitsch Device used, while securing Star-Off Machine Mechanism of Sylvester Grice eggs for him, by Peter T. Hooper’s McMonkey McBean for removing stars from friends from near Fa-Zoalin Scrambled Eggs belliesin “The Sneetches,” as part of The Super! Sneetches and Other Stories Stables, Royal Structure adjacent to King star of my show Characterization by Mor- Derwin’s palacein Bartholomew and the ris McGurk of Mr. Sneelock in If I Ran the Oobleck Circus stack 1: Among the words featured as part starred Among the various kinds and of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks 2: descriptions of fish (“This one has / a little Among the words featured as part of a star.”) cited in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish tongue-twisting sentencein Oh Say Can You Blue Fish Say? stars 1: Among the objects that were, it is Stage Number Four Circus McGurkus suggested, left to be supplied in I Can Draw side-show venue for the performance of the It Myself 2: Celestial objects characterized Wily Wallooin If I Ran the Circus by the Once-ler as being “smoke-smug- gered”in The Lorax Stage Number Two Circus McGurkus side- State Highway Two-Hundred-and-Three show venue for the performance of the Drum- Thoroughfare referred to by Marco during Tummied Snummin If I Ran the Circus his speculationsin McElligot’s Pool Stage One Circus McGurkus side-show stealing 1: Action central to the subject of venue for the performance of “a walrus the songin “Somebody Stole My Hoo-to named Rolf”in If I Ran the Circus Foo-to Boo-to Bah!,” as part of The Cat in the stairs 1: Among the things cited as associ- Hat Song Book 2: Action cited within Lady ated with a state of being “up”in Great Day Hedwig’s Horse Truth discovery: “Don’t for Up 2: Among the things (“Stairs in the lock the barn door after the horse has been Night”) it is suggested one can “Think stolen!”in The Seven Lady Godivas of” in Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! 3: steps 1: Among the things (“Some Secret Things walking down which a “green ele- Things”) about which information is to be phant” was, it is suggested, left to be sup- provided by the volume’s purported author plied in I Can Draw It Myself See also: (“It is ____ steps from . . .”)in My Book Poogle-Horn Stairs About Me 2: Place on which, the narrator Star-Belly Sneetches Together with the says, some creatures called Yeps are Plain-Belly Sneetches, principal characters of presentin There’s a Wocket in My Pocket!
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stethed Characterization of the action of King Birtram’s recreational activityin The one’s being examined “with some fine first- King’s Stilts class scoping” on Stethoscope Rowin stilts 1: Among the means of conveyance You’re Only Old Once! (“go on stilts”) suggested for departurein stethoscope Among the things about Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! which questions are askedin The Cat’s 2: Among the things cited as associated with Quizzer a state of being “up”in Great Day for Up 3: Objects central to the story’s development, Stethoscope Row Designation of a section and to the recreational use of which King of doctors’ offices at the Golden Years Birtram was devotedin The King’s Stilts Clinicin You’re Only Old Once! 4: Objects used by the Culpepper Springs stew, Beezle-Nut What Horton warns stilt-walker walkersin Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book would result from the threatened boiling in Stilt-Walkers’ Hall Residence at Culpepper Beezle-Nut oil of his “small speck of Springs within which, it is said, “stilt-walker dust”in Horton Hears a Who! walkers have called it a day”in Dr. Seuss’s stew, clam Among the foods the singer Sleep Book says he/she could eatin “The Super- stilt-walker walkers Group said to be “all Supper March,” as part of The Cat in the Hat tuckered out and . . . snoozing away” at Song Book Culpepper Springsin Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book Stew, Glunker Culinary creation the Glunk Stine, Stan Man whose head, it is sug- tells his mother how to preparein “The gested, was left so that “some green hair” Glunk That Got Thunk,” as part of I Can Lick could be suppliedin I Can Draw It Myself 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories Stinkey 1: Among the names it is said stew, ham Among the foods the singer says Mrs. McCave often wishes she had given one he/she could eatin “The Super-Supper of her “twenty-three Daves”in “Too Many March,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book Daves,” as part of The Sneetches and Other Stickle-Bush Trees Plants said to be central Stories 2: One of the Fuddnuddler to Circus McGurkus’s act featuring a man Brothersin Oh Say Can You Say? (Mr. Sneelock) wearing Roller-Skate-Skisin stockings Among the “Daisy-Head” prod- If I Ran the Circus ucts said to have been created commercially stickpin Diamond object found by Lady when “Daisy-Head fever was gripping the Lulu when kicked “Fairly and squarely, nation”in Daisy-Head Mayzie smack in the hayloft”in The Seven Lady Stoo-Mendus and Stoo-Roarus Expres- Godivas sions describing the impact of the sound still Among the words featured for use as made by Circus McGurkus’s Organ- part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop McOrgan-McGurkusin If I Ran the Circus Stilt Hour Time during the afternoon for stop Among the words featured for use as
• 122 • Store, Sneelock’s strummer
part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop today, / where the Lorax once stood”in The Lorax Store, Sneelock’s Emporium behind which, “in the big vacant lot,” Circus Stress, Study of Medical specialty of Dr. McGurkus is, as part of Morris McGurk’s Van Nessin You’re Only Old Once! fantasy, to be locatedin If I Ran the Circus string bean, green Among the things cited storm Subject of the concluding tongue- as pertaining to an arithmetic calculationin twisterin Oh Say Can You Say? “I Can Figure Figures,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book story Composition, to be written by the volume’s purported author, for which space strings 1: Among the things the boy narra- is providedin My Book About Me tor cites by namein The Shape of Me and Other Stuff 2: Cords used for flying the stout Among the various kinds and kites of Thing One and Thing Two while descriptions of fish Marco speculates he playing the Cat’s Fun-in-a-Box gamein might catchin McElligot’s Pool The Cat in the Hat Strawberry Flip One of the confections stripes, zebra Description of the pill of about the offering of which the narrator which it is said by the Pill Drill voice, “I take declares, “You won’t get me up”in I Am . . . / to cure my early evening gripes.”in NOT Going to Get Up Today! You’re Only Old Once! strawberry jelly Among the various kinds Stroodel Bird, characterized as “sort of a and descriptions of fish (“Made of straw- stork,” the eggs of which were “passed up” berry jelly”) Marco speculates he might by Peter T. Hooperin Scrambled Eggs Super! catchin McElligot’s Pool Stroodel, Herman (Butch) Schoolmate strawberry stroodles Among the foods the who sat immediately behind Mayzie singer says he/she could eatin “The Super- McGrewin Daisy-Head Mayzie Supper March,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book stroodles, strawberry Among the foods the singer says he/she could eatin “The Super- stream Body of water associated with Lady Supper March,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Mitzi’s Horse Truth discovery: “Never Song Book change horses in the middle of the stream.”in The Seven Lady Godivas Strookoo, Mt. Place from which an egg of a Mt. Strookoo Cuckoo was secured by Ali for street One of the contexts (“on the street”) Peter T. Hooperin Scrambled Eggs Super! of the subject coveredin The Foot Book See also: Bliss Street; Mulberry Street; not-so- strum Description of the action of playing good street a strummerin “Strummer Zummer,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book Street of the Lifted Lorax Thoroughfare that leads to the place where, it is said, “if strummer One of the musical instruments you look deep enough you can still see, that is a central feature of the songin
• 123 • “Strummer Zummer” swampf
“Strummer Zummer,” as part of The Cat in with a state of being “up”in Great Day the Hat Song Book for Up “Strummer Zummer” Title of a songin Sunny Jim Among the names it is said The Cat in the Hat Song Book Mrs. McCave often wishes she had given one of her “twenty-three Daves”in “Too Many Stuart One of the Fuddnuddler Brothers Daves,” as part of The Sneetches and Other in Oh Say Can You Say? Stories stubbornness Attitude central to the sunshine Element it is said King Derwin story’s development in “The Zax,” as part “growled at” throughout all of one summer, of The Sneetches and Other Stories but which ultimately he came to regard as Stud One of the Fuddnuddler Brothersin one of “the four perfect things that come Oh Say Can You Say? down from the sky” in Bartholomew and the Oobleck Study of Stress Medical specialty of Dr. Van Nessin You’re Only Old Once! Super-Axe-Hacker Device said to have been invented by the Once-ler, and “which stuff, fuzzy little Characterization of what whacked off four Truffula Trees at one (together with “fuzzy things”) the principal smacker”in The Lorax character is said to have devoted herself to Super Hunch Creature-represented “thinking up,” before having “thunked” and impulse the narrator says shouted to him, after having “Unthunked” the Glunkin “Make your mind up! Get it done!”in “The Glunk That Got Thunk,” as part of I Hunches in Bunches Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories super-Stoo-Pendus One of the expressions Stuffy Among the names it is said Mrs. describing the impact of the sound made by McCave often wishes she had given one of Circus McGurkus’s Organ-McOrgan- her “twenty-three Daves” in “Too Many McGurkusin If I Ran the Circus Daves,” as part of The Sneetches and Other Stories Super-Supper March”, “The Title of a songin The Cat in the Hat Song Book Stupor, Chimney Sweep’s Among the ail- ments asked about by the Quiz-Docsin super-zooper-flooper-do Characterization You’re Only Old Once! or designation of the cleaning machine “fashioned” by Mr. Plungerin Hooray for success What it is said the reader will Diffendoofer Day! achieve (“98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed”) in Oh, the Places You’ll Go! supper Meal that is the subject of the songin “The Super-Supper March,” as part Sue Character that relates to a segment of of The Cat in the Hat Song Book the presentation of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks See also: Miz Yookie-Ann Sue swampf Seussian rendering of “swamp” (devised to echo the final syllable of “swumpf” sun Among the things cited as associated and “HUMPF”), characterizing one of the
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areas or spheres through which the narrator Sylvester One of the seven Peeping Broth- says he has delved (“I ramble, I scramble”) ersin The Seven Lady Godivas during his alphabet-extension questsin On Beyond Zebra Sylvester, Dr. Among the Golden Years Clinic physicians said to have been medalists Swanee River Song cited (together with “in the Internal Organs Olympics last Dixie) as snored by the Snore-a-Snort year”in You’re Only Old Once! Bandin Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book table Piece of furniture on which, the nar- Swans See: Swomee-Swans rator says, a creature called Zable is Sweeping-Up-Afterwards-Brooms Imple- present in There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! ments said to be kept for cleaning Katroo’s tail and tails 1: Among the things cited as Birthday Pal-alace following the holding of a associated with a state of being “up” in Big Birthday Party in Happy Birthday to You! Great Day for Up 2: Appendage of the crea- Sweet, Horace P. President of the Happy ture called Flummox, which it is said “a Fib- Way Bus Line and signer of its posted notice ble will carry” as part of Circus McGurkus’s of service suspensionin I Had Trouble in Parade-of-Paradesin If I Ran the Circus Getting to Solla Sollew 3: Appendages of King Looie Katz and the other cats of Katzen-stein, and central to Swim Fins, Slim Jim Objects a set of which the story’s developmentin “King Looie it is said could be “the perfect Christmas Katz,” as part of I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! gift” for a father having the name Jimin Oh and Other Stories 4: Among the parts Say Can You Say? (together with “top-knot... and some legs”) Switch, Snick-Berry Device, described as of “a bug called the Sneggs” that were, it is “tough-tufted / prickely” in nature, that suggested, left to be suppliedin I Can Draw Grandpa says he, at an early stage, used it Myself See also: lion’s tail; pinwheel-like against any Zook “If he dared to come tail close”in The Butter Battle Book tailor shop Source of Eric’s disguise fol- Switzerland One of the countries about lowing his escape from having been “locked which the narrator declares, indifferently, up in an old deserted house on the edge of “Let the kids get up”in I Am NOT Going to the town”in The King’s Stilts Get Up Today! takes Among the words featured as part of Swomee-Swans Creatures the song of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks which, it is said, formerly “rang out in space” at the story’s settingin The Lorax talk Among the words featured for use as part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop swumpf One of the areas or spheres (together with “swampf”) through which the talking Among the things (“I don’t choose narrator says he has delved (“I ramble, I to be up talking.”) the narrator says will not scramble”) during his alphabet-extension cause him to leave his bedin I Am NOT questsin On Beyond Zebra Going to Get Up Today!
• 125 • tall Texa-Kota-Cutt . . .
tall Among the words featured for use as being able to hear when he is called on itin part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish See also: phone Tall Pigmy Character (together with a Short Giant) central to a question askedin telephone number See: phone number The Cat’s Quizzer television See: T.V. tap One of the representations of sounds Tellar Among the creatures said to be made (together with “boom,” “rap,” and found “in the cellar”in There’s a Wocket in “rattle tattle”) by the action describedin My Pocket! “Drummers Drumming,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book ten-foot beard Whiskers on a man who is part of Marco’s fantasizingin And to Think T-crosser Part of the characterization That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (together with “I-dotter”) of Mr. Potter’s occupationin Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky 1091 Year of Lady Gussie’s Horse Truth You Are? discovery, “just three nights before Michael- mas”in The Seven Lady Godivas Ted Among the characters introduced, to be featured as part of a phrase or tennis racket See: racket sentencein Hop on Pop tent Among the words featured for use as Teenie Nickname of Lord Godiva’s daugh- part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop ter Lady Clementinain The Seven Lady See also: Big Tent Godivas Ten tired turtles on a tuttle-tuttle tree teeth 1: Among the things about which in- Phrase cited in providing examples of use of formation is to be provided by the volume’s the letter T/tin Dr. Seuss’s ABC purported authorin My Book About Me Tent-of-all-Tents Alternative characteriza- 2: Among the things about which questions tion or designation of Circus McGurkus’s Big are askedin The Cat’s Quizzer 3: Among Tent in If I Ran the Circus the things particularly cited and commented upon as features of a storyin One Fish Two Terwilliger, Uncle 1: Character who is the Fish Red Fish Blue Fish 4: Dental elements subject of the songin “My Uncle Terwilliger to which the song relatesin “In My Bureau Waltzes with Bears,” as part of The Cat in the Drawer,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Hat Song Book 2: Character who is subject Book of the songin “My Uncle Terwilliger Likes to Pat,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book tele-foam Seussian rendering of “tele- phone” (devised to rhyme with “home”)in Test, Eyesight and Solvency Examination “The Glunk That Got Thunk,” as part of I for which the unnamed principal character Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories of the story is told he has come to the Golden Years Clinicin You’re Only Old Once! telephone Object a mouse is said to have severed the wire of, preventing Joe from Texa-Kota-Cutt 1-2-3-4-0-9 Number dialed
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by the Glunk when calling his mother on the Thimble, Simple Object the cost of which “tele-foam”in “The Glunk That Got is compared with that of a Single Shinglein Thunk,” as part of I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! Oh Say Can You Say? and Other Stories thin 1: Among the various kinds and Texas State between which and Boston descriptions of fish citedin One Fish Two there is said to fly “a big bug” Gerald Fish Red Fish Blue Fish 2: Among the various McGrew fantasizes about capturing for kinds and descriptions of fish Marco specu- McGrew Zooin If I Ran the Zoo lates he might catchin McElligot’s Pool thars Seussian rendering of “theirs” (devised thing Among the words featured for use as to rhyme with “stars”)in “The Sneetches,” part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop as part of The Sneetches and Other Stories Thing-a-ma-Bobsk Part of the indefinite Thatcher, Officer Policeman who thwarted (“A sort of a kind of a . . .”) characterization the swarm of bees pursuing Mayzie of the creature called Obsk, which Gerald McGrewin Daisy-Head Mayzie McGrew fantasizes about bringing back from the Mountains of Tobsk for McGrew Zoo, theft 1: Action central to the subject of the and a Seussian rendering of “thingamabob” songin “Somebody Stole My Hoo-to Foo- (devised to echo the final syllable of “Tobsk,” to Boo-to Bah!,” as part of The Cat in the Hat “Nobsk,” and “Obsk”)in If I Ran the Zoo Song Book 2: Action cited within Lady Hedwig’s Horse Truth discovery: “Don’t Thing-a-ma-jigger Part of Marco’s descrip- lock the barn door after the horse has been tion of “A fish that’s so big . . . / That he stolen!”in The Seven Lady Godivas makes a whale look like a tiny sardine”in McElligot’s Pool there 1: Among the locations asked about, as possibly being a place for liking and/or Thing One One of the creatures (together eating the food treated ofin Green Eggs and with Thing Two) involved in the Cat’s Fun- Ham 2: Among the words featured for use in-a-Box gamein The Cat in the Hat as part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on things, funny Characterization of various Pop activities, circumstances, and creatures Thidwick 1: Horse of Lady Dorcas J.in citedin One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish The Seven Lady Godivas 2: Principal charac- things, fuzzy Characterization of what ter of the storyin Thidwick the Big-Hearted (together with “fuzzy little stuff”) the princi- Moose pal character is said to have devoted herself thievers Seussian rendering of “thieves” to “thinking up,” before having “thunked” in “The Left-Sock Thievers,” as part of The and after having “Unthunked” the Glunk Cat in the Hat Song Book in “The Glunk That Got Thunk,” as part of I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories thieves, horse Felons who “stealthily broke in” and carried off Lady Hedwig’s horse Par- Thing Two One of the creatures (together sifalin The Seven Lady Godivas with Thing One) involved in the Cat’s Fun-
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in-a-Box gamein The Cat in the Hat atop a Ham-ikka-Schnim-ikka-Schnam-ikka Schnoppin Scrambled Eggs Super! Thinker-Upper Designation of the creative mental apparatus or facility employed by the Three F’s Designation at the Golden Years principal characterin “The Glunk That Got Clinic of the medical specialty “Footsies, Thunk,” as part of I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! Fungus, and Freckles”in You’re Only Old and Other Stories Once! thinking 1: Mental action central to the three-nozzled bloozer Musical instrument book’s overall coveragein Oh, the Thinks it is said will be played by a Bolster, as part You Can Think! 2: Mental action central to of Circus McGurkus’s Parade-of-Parades in the story’s developmentin “The Glunk If I Ran the Circus That Got Thunk,” as part of I Can Lick 30 threes Numbers (in the context of “bees on Tigers Today! and Other Stories threes”) the Cat in the Hat says, “You can think-proof ink Substance with which read about . . .” in I Can Read with My Eyes Mayzie McGrew is said to have signed Fina- Shut! gle the Agent’s contractin Daisy-Head Three-Seater Zatz-it Nose-Patting Exten- Mayzie sion Device said to have been created by the narrator to permit a caressing of the crea- thinks Seussian rendering of “thoughts” ture called Zatz-itin On Beyond Zebra in Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! Three-Snarper-Harp Musical instrument it THNAD One of the letters of the extended is said will be played by three Harp-Twang- alphabet introduced by the narrator in On ing Snarp, as part of Circus McGurkus’s Beyond Zebra Parade-of-Paradesin If I Ran the Circus Thnadners Creatures the name of which is throats, dusty musty Among the things it cited as a use for the letter THNAD within is said singing is “good for”in “Let Us All the extended alphabet introduced by the nar- Sing,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book ratorin On Beyond Zebra Throm-dim-bu-lator Mechanical device Thneed Object knitted by the Once-ler from said to have been disassembled by Herbie the tufts of Truffula Trees, and described as Hartin Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? “a Fine-Something-That-All-People-Need” throne 1: Dais of King Yertle, initially a in The Lorax single stone, but which becomes progres- thoughts Mental action central to the sively elevated by the king’s having “each book’s overall coveragein Oh, the Thinks turtle stand on another one’s back”in “Yer- You Can Think! tle the Turtle,” as part of Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories 2: Seat of the Rajah (“with three Among the words featured for use as rubies, perched high on a throne”) Marco part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop fantasizes about seeing ride atop an three-eyelashed Tizzy Bird the eggs of elephantin And to Think That I Saw It on which Peter T. Hooper secured by riding Mulberry Street
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Throne Room 1: Area within King Der- Tick-Tack-Toe Creature depicted as having win’s palacein Bartholomew and the Oobleck on its front “X’s that win” and “Zeros that 2: Area within King Derwin’s palacein The lose,” and which Gerald McGrew fantasizes 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins about capturing for McGrew Zooin If I Ran Through-Horns-Jumping-Deer Circus the Zoo McGurkus creatures all of which are said to Tidder Element of the magicians’ incanta- jump “through horns of another pell-mell / tion “Malber, Balber, Tidder, Tudd”in The While his horns are jumped through at the 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins same time as well”in If I Ran the Circus tigers Animals central to the storyin “I thunder Among the things Mr. Brown “can Can Lick 30 Tigers Today!,” as part of I Can go like,” making the sound “boom”in Mr. Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories Brown Can Moo! Can You? Timbuktu One of the examples of “big thunk and thunk-thunk and thunk-thunk- words” citedin Hop on Pop thunking Descriptions of the Thinker- Upper’s actionin “The Glunk That Got Time-Telling Fish Aquatic creatures that it Thunk,” as part of I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! is suggested might be chosen as a gift at the and Other Stories Official Katroo Birthday Pet Reservation in Happy Birthday to You! Thwerll Bugs that Gerald McGrew fanta- sizes about capturing for McGrew Zooin Timpkins, Dr. One of the Golden Years If I Ran the Zoo Clinic physicians about whom it is predicted “all . . . will prescribe a prescription for Thwil-on-Thyne One of the forwarding you”in You’re Only Old Once! points of Peeping Jack’s letter to Lady Mitziin The Seven Lady Godivas TING Sound Mayzie McGrew’s daisy Tibet Country from which, according to his made when, after its initial disappearance, it “now and then” again popped from her head speculation, Marco says a fish might come that he could catchin McElligot’s Pool in Daisy-Head Mayzie tick and ticks 1: One of the sounds (to- Tinkibus One of the cries of exhortation gether with “tock”) made by Mr. Brown, from the magicians’ incantations in The 500 “like a clock”in Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins You? 2: Among the words featured as part tin pail Object into which it is said “fifteen of tongue-twisting texts in Fox in Socks cents / and a nail / and the shell of a great- ticker Element said to make the “tock” great-great- / grandfather snail” must be sound of Mr. and Mrs. J. Carmichael Krox’s tossed to hear from the Once-ler “how the three-handed clockin Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book Lorax was lifted away”in The Lorax tickling Among the things (“You can tickle tin tops Among the things cited as pertain- my feet.”) the narrator says will not cause ing to an arithmetic calculationin “I Can him to leave his bedin I Am NOT Going to Figure Figures,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Get Up Today! Song Book
• 129 • tip-hoof tooth brush
tip-hoof Characterization of the stealthy sound of Mr. and Mrs. J. Carmichael Krox’s manner of the horse Brutus’s approach to three-handed clockin Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book “the fermented mash at the bottom of the toeses Seussian rendering of “toes” (devised silo”in The Seven Lady Godivas to rhyme with “noses” and “roses”), and tired Adjective employed (as part of a among the objects left to be drawnin I Can phrase) in providing examples of use of the Draw It Myself letter T/tin Dr. Seuss’s ABC Tom One of the seven Peeping Brothers tires Among the things the girl narrator in The Seven Lady Godivas cites by name in The Shape of Me and Other Tompkins, Dr. One of the Golden Years Stuff Clinic physicians about whom it is predicted Tizzle-Topped Grouse Among the birds “all . . . will prescribe a prescription for the eggs of which Peter T. Hooper secured you”in You’re Only Old Once! while seeking “Some fine fancy eggs that no tongues Among the things (“of people, other cook cooks” in Scrambled Eggs Super! bees and chimpanzees”) it is said singing is tizzle-topped Tufted Mazurka Creature “good for” in “Let Us All Sing,” as part of that Gerald McGrew fantasizes about bring- The Cat in the Hat Song Book ing back from the island of Yerka for tongue twisters 1: Words central to the McGrew Zoo in If I Ran the Zoo book’s overall coveragein Fox in Socks 2: Tizzy, three-eyelashed Bird the eggs of Words central to the book’s overall coverage which Peter T. Hooper secured by riding in Oh Say Can You Say? atop a Ham-ikka-Schnim-ikka-Schnam-ikka too Among the words featured as part of Schnopp in Scrambled Eggs Super! tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks To-and-Fro Marchers Circus McGurkus Toodle-oo Farewell expression of Mayzie creatures said to “march in five layers” (“The to Hortonin Horton Hatches the Egg Fros march on Tos / And the Tos march on Fros.”)in If I Ran the Circus “Too Many Daves” Title of a story as part of The Sneetches and Other Stories Tobsk, Mountains of Area, as part of Ger- ald McGrew’s fantasizing, said to be the tooth Dental element about which it is asked, “Would you dare” to “yank” one habitat (“Near the River of Nobsk”) of the creature called Obskin If I Ran the Zoo from a rink-rinker-fink? in Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! tock and tocks 1: Among the words fea- tooth brush and toothbrushes 1: Among tured as part of tongue-twisting textsin Fox the objects that were, it is suggested, left to in Socks 2: One of the sounds (together be suppliedin I Can Draw It Myself 2: with “tick”) made by Mr. Brown, “like a Object, belonging to him, on which, the nar- clock”in Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? rator says, a creature called Nooth Grush is tocker Element said to make the “tick” presentin There’s a Wocket in My Pocket!
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TOP-EST SECRET-EST BRAIN NEST train 1: Among the things cited (“Waiting Sign on the entrance of the working area of for a train to go”) as reasons for people being the Chief Yookeroo’s Bright Back Room at the Waiting Placein Oh, the Places You’ll Boysin The Butter Battle Book Go! 2: Vehicle asked about, as possibly being one on which to like and/or eat the tophopstop Quiz element, of combined words, citedin Hop on Pop food treated of in Green Eggs and Ham 3: Among the things Mr. Brown “can go like,” top-knot Among the parts (together with making the sounds “choo choo”in Mr. “his tail and some legs”) of “a bug called the Brown Can Moo! Can You? Sneggs” that were, it is suggested, left to be suppliedin I Can Draw It Myself Trainer One of several Circus McGurkus titles accorded Mr. Sneelockin If I Ran the toppest Seussian rendering of “topmost” Circus (“the top of the toppest blue space”)in Happy Birthday to You! trampoline Gymnastic device on which, it is said, Mr. Lowe always watches Miss tops, tin Among the things cited as per- Bonkers perform in Hooray for Diffendoofer taining to an arithmetic calculation in Day! “I Can Figure Figures,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book Trapeezing, Breezy Characterization of the aerial action of Circus McGurkus’s Zoom-a- Tos Creatures that are members of the To- Zoop Troupein If I Ran the Circus and-Fro Marchers group, as part of Circus McGurkus’s Parade-of-Paradesin If I Ran tree and trees 1: Among the things about the Circus which questions are askedin The Cat’s Tournament Knights Designation of Cir- Quizzer 2: Among the things asked about, as possibly being ones within which to like cus McGurkus’s apes (Sir Beers, Sir Bopps, Sir Dawkins, Sir Hawkins, Sir Hector, Sir and/or eat the food treated of in Green Eggs and Ham 3: Among the words featured for Jawks, Sir Jeers, and Sir Vector) that it is said “Stage a roust-about-joust with their boxing use as part of a phrase or sentence in Hop glove spears”in If I Ran the Circus on Pop 4: Among the objects that were, it is suggested, left to be suppliedin I Can toy man Among the objects involved in the Draw It Myself 5: Among the things about Cat’s Up-up-up game in The Cat in the Hat which questions are askedin The Cat’s toy ship Among the objects involved in the Quizzer 6: Among the things cited as asso- Cat’s Up-up-up gamein The Cat in the Hat ciated with a state of being “up”in Great Day for Up 7: Among the things King Yertle Track See: Life-Risking-Track declares have come, as his throne is progres- trailer Vehicle (carrying one man who “sits sively elevated, within his domainin “Yer- and listens while hitched on behind”) Marco tle the Turtle,” as part of Yertle the Turtle and fantasizes about having a bandwagon tow Other Stories 8: Among the things (“trees,” in And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry as well as “knees on trees”) the Cat in the Street Hat says, “You can read about . . .”in I Can
• 131 • Tree-Spider Try and Find Out
Read with My Eyes Shut! 9: What the Lorax mentin I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla is quoted as saying “I speak for”in The Lorax Sollew See also: Beezlenut Trees; Dike Trees; peanut Troupe, Zoom-a-Zoop Circus McGurkus’s trees; Stickle-Bush Trees; Truffula Trees; aerialists it is said will perform Breezy Tutt-a-Tutt Tree; tuttle-tuttle tree; Zinzibar- Trapeezingin If I Ran the Circus Zanzibar trees trout 1: Fish referred to disdainfully by Tree-Spider Among Thidwick’s antler- Marco in McElligot’s Pool 2: Fish the riding creatures in Thidwick the Big-Hearted “very sweet” ones of which (that “only eat Moose Wogs”) are said to be fed upon by the birds trick and tricks 1: Manipulatory feat about called Kweet in Scrambled Eggs Super! See which a question is askedin The Cat’s also: Doubt-trout; lion who’s partly a trout Quizzer 2: One of the particularities (“Trick Truffle, fluff-muffled Creature it is said feet”) of the subject covered in The Foot “will ride on a Huffle,” as part of Circus Book 3: Among the words featured as part McGurkus’s Parade-of-Paradesin If I Ran of tongue-twisting texts in Fox in Socks the Circus 4: Activity of the magician who is part of Truffula Fruits Produce of the Truffula Marco’s fantasizing in And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street See also: Droon- Trees in The Lorax ish trick; Grinchy trick Truffula Seed Reproductive means (“the last one of all”) said to have been saved by trip Among the things it is suggested one the Once-ler, for the regeneration of the can “Think up”in Oh, the Thinks You Can Truffula Treesin The Lorax Think! Truffula Trees Growth said formerly to Triple-Sling Jigger Yook combat mecha- have been abundantly present throughout nism said to have been created in response the setting of the storyin The Lorax to VanItch’s having destroyed Grandpa’s Snick-Berry Switchin The Butter Battle Book trumpeter and trumpeters 1: Member of King Derwin’s staffin Bartholomew and the trombones Among the things the Cat in Oobleck 2: Members of King Derwin’s the Hat tells the young cat he will, if open- The 500 Hats of Bartholomew entourage in eyed, “learn about” in I Can Read with My Cubbins Eyes Shut! Truths, Horse “New and worthy” equine Tropics One of the areas from which, maxims sought by Lord Godiva’s daughters, according to his speculation, Marco says fish entailing individual pursuits that constitute might comein McElligot’s Pool the Horse Truth Questin The Seven Lady troubles Difficulties said rarely, if ever, to Godivas obtain at the City of Solla Sollew, but the nar- Try and Find Out Characterization of rator’s encountering of which on his way what, “When love is in doubt,” is said to be there constitutes the story’s basic develop- “The job of a daisy”in Daisy-Head Mayzie
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tub Bathroom fixture within which the Cat nuts the chewing of which is said to give is found “eating a cake”in The Cat in the strength to teeth and length to hairin Hat Comes Back! See also: Bumble-Tub You’re Only Old Once! Club; Bumble-Tub Creek; bumble tubs; tuttle-tuttle tree Object cited (as part of a ring in the tub phrase) in providing examples of the use of Tudd Element of the magicians’ incanta- the letter T/tin Dr. Seuss’s ABC tion “Malber, Balber, Tidder, Tudd” in The T.V. 1: Among the objects between which 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins pink stains are transferred during the course Tufted Mazurka, tizzle-topped Creature of the spot-removal actions central to the that Gerald McGrew fantasizes about bring- story’s developmentin The Cat in the Hat ing back from the island of Yerka for Comes Back! 2: Among the things (“You can McGrew Zooin If I Ran the Zoo put the whole thing on TV.”) the narrator says will not cause him to leave his bedin I tun-th Seussian rendering of “ton” Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! (devised to rhyme with “month”)in On Beyond Zebra tweetle beetle noodle poodle bottled pad- dled muddled duddled fuddled wuddled turret Highest area of King Derwin’s fox in socks Mr. Knox’s tongue-twister palace, from which Bartholomew Cubbins concluding the overall presentation of was to be pushed in The 500 Hats of textin Fox in Socks Bartholomew Cubbins tweetle beetles Creatures that relate to a turtle and turtles 1: Among Thidwick’s segment of the presentation of tongue-twist- antler-riding creaturesin Thidwick the ing textsin Fox in Socks Big-Hearted Moose 2: Among the creatures twenty-four One of the contexts (“Twenty- about which questions are asked in The Cat’s Quizzer 3: Creatures central to the four feet”) of the subject covered in The storyin “Yertle the Turtle,” as part of Yertle Foot Book the Turtle and Other Stories 4: Creatures Twiddler Owls Among the birds the eggs cited (as part of a phrase) in providing of which Peter T. Hooper “didn’t take” dur- examples of use of the letter T/tin Dr. ing his searchin Scrambled Eggs Super! Seuss’s ABC 5: Among the things cited as pertaining to an arithmetic calculationin “I Twining, Miss Teacher at Diffendoofer Can Figure Figures,” as part of The Cat in the School whose subjects of instruction are Hat Song Book “tying knots / In neckerchiefs and noodles, / And how to tell chrysanthemums / From Turtle King Alternative form of reference miniature poodles”in Hooray for Diffen- to the story’s principal character, Yertle the doofer Day! Turtle, King Yertlein “Yertle the Turtle,” as part of Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories twins, musical Characterization of the daughters of Mr. Blinnin Oh Say Can You Tutt-a-Tutt Tree Source, at Fotta-fa-Zee, of Say?
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two-footed Among the various kinds and Bonkers at Diffendoofer School teaches “pigs descriptions of creatures citedin One Fish to put on”in Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish underwear Among the words cited in pro- Ubb, Uncle Name cited (as part of a viding examples of use of the letter U/uin phrase) in providing examples of use of the Dr. Seuss’s ABC letter U/uin Dr. Seuss’s ABC underweight Condition attributed to five Ultima Thule Area of the trade routes tigers the Cat in the Hat dismisses from con- plied by Peeping Jack’s shipin The Seven tentionin “I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today!,” as Lady Godivas part of I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories UM One of the letters of the extended alphabet introduced by the narratorin On Un-glunking Action of the principal char- Beyond Zebra acter and her brother, the Cat in the Hat, in jointly using their Un-thinkers to dispel her umbrella 1: Among the things about having previously thought up the Glunkin which questions are askedin The Cat’s “The Glunk That Got Thunk,” as part of I Quizzer 2: Object cited (as part of a phrase) Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories in providing examples of use of the letter U/uin Dr. Seuss’s ABC United States Marines Among the groups (“You can bring in the United States Umbroso, Mrs. Housewife referred to Marines!”) the narrator says will not cause by Marco during his speculationsin him to leave his bedin I Am NOT Going to McElligot’s Pool Get Up Today! Umbus Creature (“sort of a Cow”) the UNLESS Word that the Lorax, upon name of which is cited as a use for the letter departing, is said to have left emblazoned on UM within the extended alphabet intro- “a small pile of rocks”in The Lorax duced by the narratorin On Beyond Zebra un-shlump Characterization of the process Uncle See: Dake, Dr.; Doctor, Uncle; of repairing Mr. Bix’s Borfinin Did I Ever Ethelbert, Uncle; Jake, Uncle; Terwilliger, Tell You How Lucky You Are? Uncle; Ubb, Uncle un-slumping Characterization of the act of uncles Male relatives about whom ques- leaving (“not easily done”) a Slumpin Oh, tions are askedin The Cat’s Quizzer the Places You’ll Go! Uncle Ubb’s umbrella Phrase cited in pro- un-think Action by which previous viding examples of use of the letter U/uin thoughts are said to be dispelledin “The Dr. Seuss’s ABC Glunk That Got Thunk,” as part of I Can Lick underground river Waterway Marco spec- 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories ulates might connect McElligot’s Pool and Un-thinker Designation of the mental the seain McElligot’s Pool apparatus or facility by which previous underpants Garment that it is said Miss thoughts can be dispelledin “The Glunk
• 134 • up “Vent Number Five”
That Got Thunk,” as part of I Can Lick 30 Vale of Va-Vode Place where salesmen of Tigers Today! and Other Stories Zizzer-Zoof Seeds are said to have “laid down their load”in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book up 1: Among the words featured for use as part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop Valley of Vail Place from which news of a 2: Direction, condition, and circumstance Chippendale Mupp is said to have arrived central to the book’s overall coveragein in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book Great Day for Up 3: One of the contexts Valley of Vung Place of residence of the (“Up feet” and “Up in the air feet”) of the narrator of the storyin I Had Trouble in Get- subject coveredin The Foot Book See also: ting to Solla Sollew Right-Side-Up Butter Up Hunch Creature-represented impulse VanItch Name of “a very rude Zook” that that tells the narrator, “The way to go / is it is said “slingshotted” Grandpa’s Snick- UP!”in Hunches in Bunches Berry Switch, and subsequently threatened him with a succession of Zook combat mech- upside down Among the positions or man- anismsin The Butter Battle Book ners with regard to which the Cat in the Hat says, “I can read in . . .”in I Can Read with Van Ness, Dr. Golden Years Clinic physi- My Eyes Shut! cian said to have “enjoyed a high rate of success / in his pioneer work in the Study Upside-Down Butter Characterization of Stress”in You’re Only Old Once! associated with the country of the Zooks and various aspects of its societyin The Butter Van Nuys Location of the “I-and-T factory” Battle Book at which Mr. Potter is said to work in Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? upside-down cake, deep dish rhubarb Among the food the singer says he/she Van Tass, Einstein Schoolmate (“brightest could eatin “The Super-Supper March,” as young man in the whole of the class”) of part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book Mayzie McGrew in Daisy-Head Mayzie UP-UP-UP with a fish Designation of the Van Vleck A very small yawning bug, Cat’s juggling gamein The Cat in the Hat learned of through news from the County of Keckin Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book Utica, N.Y. City cited within the song’s titlein “Rainy Day in Utica, N.Y.,” as part Va-Vode, Vale of Place where salesmen of of The Cat in the Hat Song Book Zizzer-Zoof Seeds are said to have “laid down their load”in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book Utterly Sputter Combat machine said to have been created by both the Yooks and the Vector, Sir One of Circus McGurkus’s Zooks as a means of assault upon one Tournament Knightsin If I Ran the Circus anotherin The Butter Battle Book “Vent Number Five” Identification on the Vail, Valley of Place from which news of a “old pipe” that was the means of the narra- Chippendale Mupp is said to have arrived tor’s escape from the Perilous Poozersin in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew
• 135 • Vera Violet Vinn . . . waggy bears
Vera Violet Vinn is very very very awful on away with “Horton’s clover”in Horton her violin. Sentence cited in providing Hears a Who! examples of use of the letter V/vin Dr. voices Among the things cited as associ- Seuss’s ABC ated with a state of being “up”in Great Day very Adverb employed (as part of a sen- for Up tence) in providing examples of use of the Von Crandall “World-Renowned Ear Man” letter V/vin Dr. Seuss’s ABC at the Golden Years Clinicin You’re Only Very Odd Hunch Creature-represented Old Once! impulse that disturbed the narrator by Von Eiffel, Dr. Golden Years Clinic dieti- inquiring, “Do you think it might be helpful cian who “controls the Wuff-Whiffer” in / if you went to the bathroom, dear?” in You’re Only Old Once! Hunches in Bunches von Schwinn, Gretchen “A musical vestibule fish Characterization of Norval urchin” in Berlin who is said to possess an in You’re Only Old Once! extraordinarily featured mandolinin Oh Vining, Miss Teacher at Diffendoofer Say Can You Say? School whose subjects of instruction are “all Voom What is carried in the hat of Little the ways / A pigeon may be peppered, / Cat Z, as well as the sound made by it, and And how to put a saddle / On a lizard or a which is used for overall Snow Spots clean- leopard” in Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! up operationsin The Cat in the Hat Comes Vinn, Vera Violet Name cited (as part of a Back! sentence) in providing examples of use of the VROO One of the letters of the extended letter V/v in Dr. Seuss’s ABC alphabet introduced by the narratorin On violin and violins 1: Object cited (as part Beyond Zebra of a sentence) in providing examples of use Vrooms Creatures (“built sort of like of the letter V/v in Dr. Seuss’s ABC 2: brooms”) the name of which is cited as a use Musical instruments by the playing of for the letter VROO within the extended which, it is said, Mr. Blinn’s daughters “lull alphabet introduced by the narratorin On their daddy to sleep” in Oh Say Can You Say? Beyond Zebra VIP Case Designation of the status accorded Vug Creature said to be found “under the “top patients” at the Golden Years Clinicin rug”in There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! You’re Only Old Once! Vung, Valley of Place of residence of the Vipper of Vipp Creature it is suggested narrator of the storyin I Had Trouble in one might go to visitin Oh, the Thinks You Getting to Solla Sollew Can Think! waggy bears Among the kinds of bears Vlad-i-koff, Vlad Eagle that, after receiv- with which Uncle Terwilliger is said to ing it from the Wickersham Brothers, flew dancein “My Uncle Terwilliger Waltzes
• 136 • wagon War, Big
with Bears,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song objects or surfaces said to have been bumped Book by the kites of Thing One and Thing Two while playing the Cat’s Fun-in-a-Box wagon and wagons 1: Vehicle Marco actu- gamein The Cat in the Hat 3: Among the ally saw being pulled (“Just a broken-down words featured for use as part of a phrase or wagon / That’s drawn by a horse”)in And sentencein Hop on Pop to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street 2: Vehicles on State Highway Two-Hundred- Wall Barrier existing along the border and-Three referred to by Marco during his between the countries of the Yooks and the speculationsin McElligot’s Pool See also: Zooksin The Butter Battle Book Cat’s wagon walloping whizz-zinger Characterization Wagon Anterior and Wagon Inferior and by the Chief Yookeroo of the kind of weapon Wagon Superior Vehicular creations of being projected in response to the Zooks’ Lady Dorcas J.in The Seven Lady Godivas development of the Jigger-Rock Snatchem in The Butter Battle Book Wah-Hoo, River Waterway on the banks of which is situated the City of Solla Sollewin Wallow, Wily Circus McGurkus side-show I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew creature it is said “can throw his long tail as a sort of lassoo”in If I Ran the Circus waiters Among the persons cited as associ- ated with a state of being “up”in Great Day walrus Circus McGurkus creature “named for Up Rolf” from the Ocean of Olfin If I Ran the Circus Waiting Place Site where, it is said, all those present are “people just waiting”in walrus with whiskers and walrus which Oh, the Places You’ll Go! whispers Animals cited as “not a good pet” to be given to fathersin Oh Say Can walk Among the words featured for use as You Say? part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop waltzing Subject of the songin “My walkers, stilt-walker Group said to be “all Uncle Terwilliger Waltzes with Bears,” as tuckered out and . . . snoozing away” at part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book See Culpepper Springsin Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book also: wa-wa-wa, waltzing walking Among the things (“I don’t wamel “Sort of a saddle” said to be used choose to be up walking.”) the narrator says for riding a camelin Did I Ever Tell You How will not cause him to leave his bedin I Am Lucky You Are? NOT Going to Get Up Today! wamel-faddle Device (“a button”) said to wall 1: Among the objects or surfaces be used to hold a wamel on a camelin Did I between which pink stains are transferred Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? during the course of the spot-removal actions central to the story’s developmentin The War, Big Characterization by the Chief Cat in the Hat Comes Back! 2: Among the Yookeroo of the up-coming ultimate conflict
• 137 • washes weeping
between the Yooks and the Zooksin The suppliedin I Can Draw It Myself 3: Among Butter Battle Book the things (“water when it drips”) the boy narrator cites by namein The Shape of Me washes and washing Verbs used (as part of and Other Stuff 4: Among the things (“You a sentence) in providing examples of use of can pour cold water on my head.”) the nar- the letter W/win Dr. Seuss’s ABC rator says will not cause him to leave his Washington Among the cities at which the bedin I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! Circus Show exhibited Hortonin Horton 5: Fluid central to Lady Arabella’s Horse Hatches the Egg Truth discovery: “You can lead a horse to Washington, George Among the persons water, but you can’t make him drink.” in about whom questions are askedin The The Seven Lady Godivas See also: black Cat’s Quizzer water Wasket Creature about which the narrator Waterloo, Willy Name cited (as part of a asks whether the person being addressed sentence) in providing examples of use of the ever had “the feeling” of one’s possibly letter W/win Dr. Seuss’s ABC being “in your basket?” in There’s a Wocket watermelon wush wush Among the foods in My Pocket! the singer says he/she could eatin “The Wasn’t Characterization by Katroo’s Birth- Super-Supper March,” as part of The Cat in day Bird of what someone might be who had the Hat Song Book “never been born” and, accordingly, “just wa-wa-wa, waltzing Seussian rendering of isn’t present”in Happy Birthday to You! “waltzing”in “My Uncle Terwilliger Watch-Watcher-Watcher Character at Waltzes with Bears,” as part of The Cat in the Hawtch-Hawtch said to have been needed to Hat Song Book watch the Bee-Watcher-Watcherin Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? weathervanes Among the things about which questions are askedin The Cat’s Watch-Watcher-Watchering-Watch Charac- Quizzer terization of the activity said ultimately to have engaged “all of the Hawtchers who live webs, spider Among the things the girl in Hawtch-Hawtch”in Did I Ever Tell You narrator cites by name in The Shape of Me How Lucky You Are? and Other Stuff Watch-Watching Designation of the action Weehawken 1: Among the cities at which of the Watch-Watcher-Watchering-Watchin the Circus Show exhibited Hortonin Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? Horton Hatches the Egg 2: Place cited by the Once-ler in giving directions to his relatives water 1: Among the things (“How much for finding their way to himin The Lorax water / can fifty-five elephants drink?”) it is suggested one might wonder aboutin Oh, weeping Action that is the song’s subject the Thinks You Can Think! 2: Among the in “Cry a Pint,” as part of The Cat in the Hat things that were, it is suggested, left to be Song Book
• 138 • Weepy Weed What-is-it
Weepy Weed Among the names it is said which is said to come Circus McGurkus’s Mrs. McCave often wishes she had given one Zoom-a-Zoop Troupein If I Ran the Circus of her “twenty-three Daves”in “Too Many wet 1: Among the words featured for use Daves,” as part of The Sneetches and Other as part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Stories Pop 2: One of the conditions (“Wet foot”) weight Among the subjects about which of the subject coveredin The Foot Book information is to be provided by the volume’s wet pet Among the creatures cited and purported authorin My Book About Me illustratedin One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Welcoming Horn Musical instrument it is Blue Fish said will be played for Circus McGurkus by whale and whales 1: Among the aquatic “horn-tooting apes from the Jungles of creatures Marco speculates he might catch Jorn” in If I Ran the Circus and, also, creature referred to, comparatively, Wellar Among the creatures said to be by him when describing a Thing-a-ma-jigger found “in the cellar”in There’s a Wocket in in McElligot’s Pool 2: Among the crea- My Pocket! tures cited as associated with a state of being “up”in Great Day for Up went Among the words featured for use as part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop Whale Number One and Whale Number Two Circus McGurkus creatures by which, West Beast One of the creatures (together it is said, “Spout-Rider Sneelock gets with the East Beast) on “an island hard to spouted about”in If I Ran the Circus reach,” each of which it is said “thinks he’s the best beast”in Oh Say Can You Say? wham chops Among the foods the singer says he/she could eatin “The Super- West Bunglefield Place at which stops are Supper March,” as part of The Cat in the said to be made along the transportation Hat Song Book route of the creatures called High Gargel- orumin On Beyond Zebra What One of the interrogatory designa- tions (together with What-is-it) representing West-est Extreme westerly area of the desired answers within questions askedin world, from even west of which creatures The Cat’s Quizzer have it is said been sought for the Official Katroo Birthday Pet Reservationin Happy What-do-you-know Creatures from “Up Birthday to You! past the North Pole, where the frozen winds squeal,” a family of which Gerald McGrew West Gee-Hossa-Flat Place where, “on fantasizes about capturing for McGrew some dead-end road,” the narrator specu- Zooin If I Ran the Zoo lates that he would find himself if he fol- What-is-it lowed the Spookish Hunch’s suggestionin One of the interrogatory desig- Hunches in Bunches nations (together with What) representing desired answers within questions askedin West Upper Ben-Deezing Place from The Cat’s Quizzer
• 139 • “What Was I Scared Of?” Who-pudding
“What Was I Scared Of?” Title of a story white Description of the pill of which it is as part of The Sneetches and Other Stories said by the Pill Drill voice, “I munch / at breakfast and right after lunch”in You’re wheat, wuzzled Food the singer says Only Old Once! he/she “could eat . . . half a pound of”in “The Super-Supper March,” as part of The white sky Among the things it is suggested Cat in the Hat Song Book one can “Think up”in Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! Wheeler, Whelden the Orderly who pro- vides wheelchair assistance at the Golden whizz-zinger, walloping Characterization Years Clinicin You’re Only Old Once! by the Chief Yookeroo of the kind of weapon wheels Among the things about which being projected in response to the Zooks’ development of the Jigger-Rock Snatchem questions are asked in The Cat’s Quizzer See also: ferris wheels in The Butter Battle Book Whelden the Wheeler Orderly who pro- who Pronoun employed (as part of a sen- tence) in providing examples of use of the vides wheelchair assistance at the Golden Years Clinicin You’re Only Old Once! letter W/w in Dr. Seuss’s ABC where Among the words featured for use Who, Cindy-Lou Tiny Who child (“not as part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop more than two”) that interrupted the Grinch at “stop number one” during his Christmas whiskers 1: Among the objects that were, Eve plundering of Who-ville homesin How it is suggested, left to be supplied for Mr. the Grinch Stole Christmas McGrewin I Can Draw It Myself 2: Among the things cited as associated with a state of Who-Bubs Creatures that it is said can be being “up”in Great Day for Up See also: sent to gather Birthday Flower Jungle blooms long flowing whiskers; walrus with whiskers in Happy Birthday to You! whisper Sound made by Mr. Brown, “like Who-Christmas-Sing Choral occasion said the soft, / soft whisper / of a butterfly”in to be part of the Whos’ holiday observance Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? in How the Grinch Stole Christmas Whisper-ma-Phone Communication Who-hash Canned food taken from a device of the Once-lerin The Lorax refrigerator by the Grinch during his Christ- mas Eve plundering of Who-ville homesin whispers, walrus which Animal cited How the Grinch Stole Christmas (together with “walrus with whiskers”) as “not a good pet” to be given to fathersin Whoofing along Characterization by Oh Say Can You Say? Marco of the manner of a Dog Fish’s pro- ceedingin McElligot’s Pool whistle Secret device, taken from “its secret hook” and used to summon King Der- Who-pudding and Who-roast-beast Foods win’s magiciansin Bartholomew and the said to be parts of the Whos’ holiday Oobleck feastin How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• 140 • Whos winick
Whos 1: Creatures, central to the story, that Wiggins, Warren Name cited (as part of a inhabit the town of Who-ville, situated on “a sentence) in providing examples of use of the small speck of dust”in Horton Hears a Who! letter W/win Dr. Seuss’s ABC 2: Residents of Who-ville, and intended vic- Wilberforce, Waldo One of the characters tims of the Grinch’s Christmas Eve descent that is wished “happy birthday also”in upon their townin How the Grinch Stole “Happy Birthday to Little Sally Spingel Christmas Spungel Sporn,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Who’s-Asleep Count and Who’s-Asleep- Song Book Score Tally of sleepers, as provided by the narratorin Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book Wilds of Nantucket Area in which Gerald McGrew, as part of his fantasizing, intends to Who-ville 1: Town situated on “a small capture “a family of Lunks” for McGrew speck of dust”in Horton Hears a Who! Zooin If I Ran the Zoo 2: Town where everyone, it is said, “Liked Wilfred, Grand Duke Nephew of King Christmas a lot,” and upon which the Grinch made a Christmas Eve descentin How the Derwin in The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Grinch Stole Christmas Cubbins Who-ville Town Square Center of the Will Among the characters introduced, to Whos’ municipalityin Horton Hears a Who! be featured as part of a phrase or sentence in Hop on Pop whuffed Among the characterizations (paired with “whiffed”) of Mr. Bear’s actions Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins while demonstrating the proficiency of his who is washing Waldo Woo. Sentence sense of smellin “The Big Brag,” as part of cited in providing examples of use of the let- Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories ter W/win Dr. Seuss’s ABC Wichita, Kansas Among the cities at which Wily Wallow Circus McGurkus side-show the Circus Show exhibited Hortonin Hor- creature it is said “can throw his long tail as ton Hatches the Egg a sort of lassoo”in If I Ran the Circus Wickersham Brothers Trio of “big jungle wind Among the things cited (“waiting for monkeys,” incredulous that life could exist wind to fly a kite”) as reasons for people on “a small speck of dust,” who “snatched being at the Waiting Placein Oh, the Places Horton’s clover” and subsequently, with You’ll Go! the aid of Wickersham Uncles and Wicker- window Place in which, the narrator says, sham Cousins and Wickersham In-Laws, a creature called Findow is presentin attempt to rope and cage Hortonin Horton There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! Hears a Who! wings Appendages the narrator says “I wig Among the things cited (“Waiting for flap” on “Bright Blue Days”in My Many . . . a wig with curls”) as reasons for people Colored Days being at the Waiting Placein Oh, the Places You’ll Go! winick Seussian rendering of “wink” (de-
• 141 • wink World-Champion . . .
vised to rhyme with “clinic”)in You’re Only School whose subject of instruction is Old Once! “smelling”in Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! wink Action cited as being one of the Wocket Creature referred to as part of the things the creature called Yink likes to book’s titlein There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! do in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Wogs Frogs said to be “the world’s sweet- wink-hood Headgear said to be worn by est”in Scrambled Eggs Super! Circus McGurkus’s Hoodwink in If I Ran women 1: Among the persons about the Circus whom questions are askedin The Cat’s Winkibus One of the cries of exhortation Quizzer 2: Among the persons cited as from the magicians’ incantationsin The 500 associated with a state of being “up”in Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins Great Day for Up Winna-Bango, Lake Setting of the story wonder Mental action, in addition to think- in Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose ing, that is suggested in Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! winning-est Seussian expression of the supreme degree of one’s achieving a “win- wonter Characterization of the narrator, as ning” statein Oh, the Places You’ll Go! ascribed by an unidentified voice, should it prove that the narrator will not make up his wire Object cited as associated with a state mindin Hunches in Bunches of being “up”in Great Day for Up Woo, Waldo Name cited (as part of a sen- Wise Men Sages of King Derwin’s court tence) in providing examples of use of the in The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins letter W/win Dr. Seuss’s ABC wishbones Among the things the Cat in woodpecker Among Thidwick’s antler-rid- the Hat tells the young cat he will, if open- ing creatures, and uncle of one of the Zinn-a- eyed, “learn about”in I Can Read with My zu Birdsin Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose Eyes Shut! Woo-Wall, River Waterway on the banks of wish dish Plate said by the creature named which is said to be located the city of Boola Ish to be used when making wishesin One Boo Ballin I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Sollew wista One of the conjuring words from the woozy-snoozing and woozy snoozy magicians’ incantation containing the line Among the narrator’s characterizations of “Fista, wista, mista-cuff”in Bartholomew his intended “sleeping in” statein I Am and the Oobleck NOT Going to Get Up Today! witz Seussian rendering of “wits” (devised Work, Big Characterization of the King- so that its ending is spelled like “Blitz” and dom of Binn’s application to “caring for the “fritz”)in The Butter Battle Book mighty Dike Trees”in The King’s Stilts Wobble, Miss Teacher at Diffendoofer World-Champion Sleep-Talkers Charac-
• 142 • World-Renowned . . . Yahoo
terization of Jo and Mo Redd-Zoffin Dr. “wubbed on”in I Had Trouble in Getting to Seuss’s Sleep Book Solla Sollew World-Renowned Ear Man Characteriza- wuddled Among the words featured as tion of the Golden Years Clinic’s practitioner part of tongue-twisting textsin Fox in Socks Von Crandallin You’re Only Old Once! Wuff-Whiffer Golden Years Clinic’s “Diet- World’s Greatest Show One of the charac- Devising Computerized Sniffer” mechanism terizations of Circus McGurkusin If I Ran in You’re Only Old Once! the Circus WUM One of the letters of the extended worm and worms 1: Creature that ridicules alphabet introduced by the narratorin On the boastfulness of Mr. Bear and Mr. Rabbit, Beyond Zebra declaring that its ability of sight is superior Wumbus Creature the name of which is to their hearing or sense of smellin “The cited as a use for the letter WUM within the Big Brag,” as part of Yertle the Turtle and extended alphabet introduced by the narra- Other Stories 2: Among the creatures about torin On Beyond Zebra which questions are askedin The Cat’s Quizzer 3: Among the creatures cited as Wump Creature described as having one or associated with a state of being “up”in more humpsin One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Great Day for Up Blue Fish Woset Creature about which the narrator Wump of Gump Designation of the seven- asks whether the person being addressed humped creature owned by Mr. Gumpin ever had “the feeling” of one’s possibly One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish being “in your closet?”in There’s a Wocket wush wush, watermelon Among the foods in My Pocket! the singer says he/she could eatin “The wubbed Description of the action of the Super-Supper March,” as part of The Cat in One-Wheeler Wubble while progressing “all the Hat Song Book through that day”in I Had Trouble in Get- wuzzled wheat Food the singer says ting to Solla Sollew he/she “could eat . . . half a pound of”in Wubble, One-Wheeler Vehicle within “The Super-Supper March,” as part of The which the narrator undertook to travel from Cat in the Hat Song Book the Valley of Vung to the City of Solla Sollew X’s 1: Marks depicted as being (together in I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew with O’s) on the front of the creature called Wubble chap Characterization of the Tick-Tack-Toein If I Ran the Zoo 2: Marks owner of the One-Wheeler Wubble within of a game central (together with O’s) to ques- which the narrator undertook to travelin I tions askedin The Cat’s Quizzer Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew Yahoo Exclamation of delight said to have wubble-some way Designation of the been “yelled” by the students of Diffendoofer manner in which the One-Wheeler Wubble School as the “special test” was handed out,
• 143 • yak Yertle the Turtle . . .
and they realized they would all do well YEKK One of the letters of the extended when answering its questionsin Hooray for alphabet introduced by the narratorin On Diffendoofer Day! Beyond Zebra yak Creature cited (as part of a phrase) in Yekko Creature the name of which is cited providing examples of use of the letter as a use for the letter YEKK within the Y/yin Dr. Seuss’s ABC extended alphabet introduced by the narra- torin On Beyond Zebra yapping Among the noise-making attempts (together with “yipping” and “beeping” and yelling 1: Subject taught by Miss Quibble “bipping”) exerted by the Whos while trying at Diffendoofer Schoolin Hooray for Diffen- to make themselves heardin Horton Hears doofer Day! 2: Verb employed (as part of a a Who! phrase) in providing examples of use of the letter Y/yin Dr. Seuss’s ABC yap-yap Characterization by the Once-ler of the Lorax’s manner of expressing protesta- yellow 1: Among the classifications of days tionsin The Lorax citedin My Many Colored Days 2: Among the colors it is suggested one “can think yaw Representation (variously spelled, by about”in Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! extension from its “ya . . .” opening) of the 3: Color cited (as part of a phrase) in provid- sound of yawningin “Yawn Song,” as part ing examples of use of the letter Y/yin of The Cat in the Hat Song Book Dr. Seuss’s ABC See also: big yellow animal yawning 1: Action central to part of the yellow-hatted Among the various kinds storyin Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book 2: Action and descriptions of fish (“The fat one has / a cited (as part of a phrase) in providing exam- yellow hat.”) citedin One Fish Two Fish Red ples of use of the letter Y/yin Dr. Seuss’s Fish Blue Fish ABC 3: Action that is the song’s subjectin “Yawn Song,” as part of The Cat in the Hat yelp Among the words featured for use as Song Book part of a phrase or sentencein Hop on Pop yawning yellow yak Phrase cited in pro- Yeoman of the Bowmen Foremost archer viding examples of use of the letter Y/yin of King Derwin’s courtin The 500 Hats of Dr. Seuss’s ABC Bartholomew Cubbins “Yawn Song” Title of a songin The Cat in Yeps Creatures said to be found “on the the Hat Song Book steps”in There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! Year One Thirty-Nine Time of the action of Yerka African island from which Gerald the storyin “King Looie Katz,” as part of I McGrew, as part of his fantasizing, intends to Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories bring a tizzle-topped Tufted Mazurka for McGrew Zooin If I Ran the Zoo Year-the-King-Got-Angry-with-the-Sky, The- Characterization of the time of the Yertle the Turtle, King Yertle Principal storyin Bartholomew and the Oobleck character of the story and “king of the pond”
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at the Island of Sala-ma-Sondin “Yertle YOPP Sound made by Jo-Jo from the Eiffel- the Turtle,” as part of Yertle the Turtle and berg Tower, the “one small, extra Yopp” that Other Stories allowed the Whos to be generally heardin Yes Among the things cited (“waiting Horton Hears a Who! around for a Yes or No”) as reasons for peo- Yorgenson, Young Yolanda Name cited (as ple being at the Waiting Placein Oh, the part of a sentence) in providing examples of Places You’ll Go! use of the letter Y/yin Dr. Seuss’s ABC Yill-iga-yakk Creature part of which (the Yosemite Park Among the places about back half) was, it is suggested, left to be sup- which questions are askedin The Cat’s pliedin I Can Draw It Myself Quizzer Ying Creature with which, the narrator Yot Creature said to be found “in the says, it is fun to singin One Fish Two Fish pot”in There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! Red Fish Blue Fish Yottle Creature said to be found “in the Yink Creature that it is said “likes to wink bottle”in There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! and drink pink ink”in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish you Among the persons cited (the reader) as associated with a state of being “up” (“So yipping Among the noise-making attempts UP with you!”)in Great Day for Up (together with “yapping” and “beeping” and “bipping”) exerted by the Whos while trying you-er Seussian expression of an extended, to make themselves heardin Horton Hears more comprehensive degree of being a Who! “you” in Happy Birthday to You! Yookeroo, Chief Leader of the Yooksin young cat Creature being talked to by the The Butter Battle Book Cat in the Hat in I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! Yookery Place identified as that to which all Yooks went upon being ordered by the Young Yolanda Yorgenson is yelling on his Chief Yookeroo “to stay safe underground / back. Sentence cited in providing examples while the Bitsy Big-Boy Boomer is of use of the letter Y/yin Dr. Seuss’s ABC around” in The Butter Battle Book Yo-Yo Plaything that Jo-Jo is engaged with Yookie-Ann Sue, Miz Member of the But- when found by the Mayorin Horton Hears a ter-Up Band said to have been its Chief Who! Drum Majorette in The Butter Battle Book Yupster Place at which stops are said to be Yooks Inhabitants of the country character- made along the transportation route of the ized by bread being eaten therein “with the creatures called High Gargel-orumin On butter side up”in The Butter Battle Book Beyond Zebra Yop Creature that declares, “All I like to do YUZZ First letter of the extended alphabet is hop / from finger top / to finger top.”in introduced by the narratorin On Beyond One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Zebra
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Yuzz-a-ma-Tuzz Creature the name of Seater Device said to have been carried by which is cited as a use for the letter YUZZ the narrator to permit a caressing of the crea- within the extended alphabet introduced by ture called Zatz-itin On Beyond Zebra the narratorin On Beyond Zebra Zax Principal characters (existing in two Z Letter of the alphabet central to a ques- kinds, North-Going and South-Going) of the tionin The Cat’s Quizzer storyin “The Zax,” as part of The Sneetches and Other Stories Zable Creature said to be found “on the table”in There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! Zayt Highway Eight Traffic-clogged road within the place called Ga-Zaytin Did I Zall Creature that it is said “scoots down Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? the hall”in There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! zazz Among the narrator’s characteriza- Zamp Creature said to be found “in the tions of his intended “sleeping in” statein I lamp”in There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! zang Description of one of the actions Zebra 1: Example of what, at the close of (together with “zing”) of new feathers the traditional alphabet, the letter Z may be sprouting as elements of Gertrude McFuzz’s said to stand for (as part of a recitation such tailin “Gertrude McFuzz,” as part of Yertle as “A is for Ape,” “B is for Bear,” “C is for the Turtle and Other Stories Camel”. . . )in On Beyond Zebra 2: One of Zans Creature said to be possessed for the the animals Marco fantasizes about seeing purpose of opening cansin One Fish Two pull a vehiclein And to Think That I Saw It Fish Red Fish Blue Fish on Mulberry Street Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate Among the zebra stripes Description of the pill of names it is said Mrs. McCave often wishes which it is said by the Pill Drill voice, “I take she had given one of her “twenty-three . . . / to cure my early evening gripes.”in Daves”in “Too Many Daves,” as part of You’re Only Old Once! The Sneetches and Other Stories Zeds Creatures described as having atop Zanzibar Zidd “A strange kind of bird” their heads but a single hair, which it is said that was, it is suggested, left to be supplied “grows . . . / so fast . . . / they need a hair “in a cage”in I Can Draw It Myself cut / every day”in One Fish Two Fish Red ZATZ One of the letters of the extended Fish Blue Fish alphabet introduced by the narratorin On Zeep Creature regarding which the narra- Beyond Zebra tor declares, “It is time to sleep. / So we will sleep / with our pet Zeep.”in One Fish Two Zatz-it Creature the name of which is cited Fish Red Fish Blue Fish as a use for the letter ZATZ within the extended alphabet introduced by the narra- Zelf Creature said to be found “on that torin On Beyond Zebra shelf”in There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! Zatz-it-Nose-Patting Extension, Three- Zellar Among the creatures said to be
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found “in the cellar”in There’s a Wocket in the eggs of which, secured by Peter T. Hooper, My Pocket! are said to “taste like the air in the holes in Zeros Markings depicted as being (to- Swiss cheese” in Scrambled Eggs Super! gether with X’s) on the front of the creature zip code Among the things about which called Tick-Tack-Toein If I Ran the Zoo questions are askedin The Cat’s Quizzer See also: O’s Zipp, Skipper Proprietor of Skipper Zipp’s Zidd, Zanzibar “A strange kind of bird” Clipper Ship Chip Chop Shopin Oh Say that was, it is suggested, left to be supplied Can You Say? “in a cage”in I Can Draw It Myself zizz Among the narrator’s characteriza- Ziffs Birds that “live on cliffs,” but other- tions of his intended “sleeping in” statein I wise are “exactly like Zuffs,” an egg of which Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! may have been secured by Peter T. Hooper in Scrambled Eggs Super! Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz Creature cited (as part of a sentence) in providing examples of use Ziggy Among the names it is said Mrs. of the letter Z/zin Dr. Seuss’s ABC McCave often wishes she had given one of her “twenty-three Daves”in “Too Many Zizzer-Zoofing Description of the function Daves,” as part of The Sneetches and Other of “trying to sell Zizzer-Zoof Seeds”in Dr. Stories Seuss’s Sleep Book Zike-Bike Among the means of conveyance Zizzer-Zoof Seeds Objects of which it is suggested for departurein Marvin K. said “nobody wants because nobody Mooney Will You Please Go Now! needs”in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book Zillow Creature said by the narrator to be zizz-zizz Among the narrator’s characteri- found “on my pillow”in There’s a Wocket in zations of his intended “sleeping in” My Pocket! statein I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! Zind, Desert of Place from “the blistering Zlock Creature the narrator says he sands” of which Gerald McGrew fantasizes sometimes has “the feeling” is to be found about capturing a scraggle-foot Mulligatawny “behind the clock”in There’s a Wocket in My for McGrew Zooin If I Ran the Zoo Pocket! zing Description of one of the actions (to- Zomba-ma-Tant Place in the mountains of gether with “zang”) of new feathers sprouting which Gerald McGrew, as part of his fanta- as elements of Gertrude McFuzz’s tail in sizing, intends to capture for McGrew Zoo “Gertrude McFuzz,” as part of Yertle the Tur- both “a fine fluffy bird called the Bustard” tle and Other Stories and “a very fine beast called the Flustard” Zinn-a-zu Birds Among Thidwick’s antler- in If I Ran the Zoo riding creatures in Thidwick the Big-Hearted zong Creature about the tail length of Moose which it is suggested one “can wonder”in Zinzibar-Zanzibar trees Habitat of birds Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!
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zoo Setting of the storyin If I Ran the Zoo zum 1: Description of the action of playing See also: New Zoo a zummerin “Strummer Zummer,” as part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book 2: Descrip- Zooks Inhabitants of the country character- tion of the action of the Zummers that help ized by bread being eaten therein “with the to open a Big Birthday Party at Katroo in butter side down” in The Butter Battle Book Happy Birthday to You! Zook-Watching Border Patrol Yook organ- Zumble-Zay Among the means of con- ization to which Grandpa says he related “as veyance (“You might like going / In a a youth” in The Butter Battle Book Zumble-Zay.”) suggested for departurein Zoom-a-Zoop Troupe Circus McGurkus’s Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! aerialists it is said will perform Breezy zummer One of the musical instruments Trapeezingin If I Ran the Circus that is a central feature of the songin zoop Description of part of the aerial action “Strummer Zummer,” as part of The Cat in (“they zoop and they zoom”) of Circus the Hat Song Book McGurkus’s Zoom-a-Zoop Troupein If I Zummers Designation of the musicians Ran the Circus that, when opening a Big Birthday Party at Zooski McGrewski Seussian rendering of Katroo, follow in procession “Drummers “McGrew Zoo” (devised to echo and rhyme who drum” and “Strummers who with “Palooski”)in If I Ran the Zoo strum”in Happy Birthday to You! Zorn, Mt. Site at Katroo from which, it is zumming Designation of the sound made said, the Birthday Horn is playedin Happy by the Zummers that help to open a Big Birthday to You! Birthday Party at Katrooin Happy Birthday to You! Zower Creature said by the narrator to be found “in my shower”in There’s a Wocket in Zummz Place through the mountains of My Pocket! which are said to stroll the ducks called Single-File Zummzian Zuksin Scrambled Zozzfozzel, Ziggy and Zizzy Brother and Eggs Super! sister said to have “got every question WRONG”in The Cat’s Quizzer Zummzian Zuks, Single-File Ducks a quantity of the eggs of which were sent to Zuffs Birds that “live on bluffs,” but other- Peter T. Hooper by “some fellows in wise are “exactly like” Ziffs, an egg of which Zummz”in Scrambled Eggs Super! may have been secured by Peter T. Hooper in Scrambled Eggs Super! zum-zum zummer Musician characterized as “a fellow who can zum and strum”in Zuks, Single-File Zummzian Ducks a “Strummer Zummer,” as part of The Cat in quantity of the eggs of which were sent to the Hat Song Book Peter T. Hooper by “some fellows in Zummz”in Scrambled Eggs Super! zuzz Among the narrator’s characteriza-
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tions of his intended “sleeping in” statein I ZZZ Sound made by Grand Duke Wilfred’s Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! arrowsin The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins Zwieback Motel Hostelry of which it is said “people don’t usually sleep there too well”in Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book
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