Suddenly, they hear a loud noise, followed by the appearance of the Cat in the Hat. The Cat and the Hat begins as the narrator and Sally sit glumly in their house during a storm, absorbed in their isolation and boredom. The book is now one of the most famous works of children’s literature of all time. Seuss wrote the book in reaction to skepticism about the value of early childhood literacy in the United States, hoping to devise a book that would entertain and teach at the same time. The Cat brings in two of his friends, Thing One and Thing Two, creating such a mess that the narrator and Sally fear they will bear the consequences when their mother comes home. The children watch, mostly powerless, as their pet fish quarrels with the cat as it brings a whirlwind of chaos to their house on a rainy day when their parents are gone. Told from the perspective of an unnamed boy, it features a tall, humanlike cat with a zebra-striped hat and red bowtie who interrupts the ordinary lives of the boy and his sister, Sally. The Cat in the Hat is a 1957 children’s book written and illustrated by American cartoonist, author, and animator Theodor Geisel, who published under the better-known pseudonym, Dr.
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