![]() ![]() Milne introduced Winnie the Pooh to readers, would not rival the delicate intelligence or the imaginative nuance of the world’s most popular teddy bear. That book, which came out eleven years after A.A. ![]() The result, published the following year, in 1937, was a book called And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. His wife encouraged him to develop a story line combining the two. Flying cat pulling Viking ship.” For the rest of the trip, Geisel remained fixated on the rhythm of the engine and the memories of Mulberry Street. But Geisel was already adding his own fantasies to childhood memory: “Chariot pulled by flying cat. The images recalled what he had seen as an eight-year old watching a Fourth of July parade in 1912-including a float commemorating the Titanic-going down Mulberry Street in his hometown of Springfield, Massachussetts. The steady sound of the chugging engine gave him a sense of courage and the anapestic rhythm for his verse-which also matched the cadence of “’Twas the Night before Christmas.” To divert himself, he headed to the ship’s lounge, where he focused on scribbling out lines on ship stationery that were associated with more pleasant memories of his youth. ![]() After passengers were ordered to return to their cabins, Geisel was plagued by memories of the doomed Titanic of 1912. In 1936, Theodor Seuss Geisel was returning home to the United States from Germany aboard a luxury liner when a ferocious storm began to batter the ship. ![]()
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