McElligot's Pool (Classic Seuss) Read Free Books and Download eBooks
Imagination runs wild in this Caldecott Honor-winning tale featuring Dr. Seuss's inimitable voice and hysterical illustrations. The first Seuss title to feature full-color art on every other page, this adventurous picture book tells of Marco-who first imagined an extraordinary parade in And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street-as he daydreams of all the possibilities that await him while he fishes in McElligot's Pool. Optimistic and exciting, this tale is the perfect bait, and readers young and old will be hooked on this fish-tastic favorite.
Lexile Measure: NP (What's this?)
Series: Classic Seuss
Hardcover: 64 pages
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers (September 12, 1947)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0394800834
ISBN-13: 978-0394800837
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 0.4 x 11.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (147 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #13,254 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #35 in Books > Children's Books > Animals > Fish #48 in Books > Children's Books > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > Dr. Seuss #367 in Books > Children's Books > Literature & Fiction > Chapter Books & Readers > Beginner Readers
Age Range: 5 - 9 years
Grade Level: Kindergarten - 4
This book sets up a contrast between the sour pessimism of an adult farmer and the unbounded optimism of a boy. The farmer finds the boy with his fishing line dangling in a small water-filled crack in the earth."You're sort of a fool!You'll never catch fishin McElligot's Pool!"As you can imagine, youngster often take that as a challenge to keep doing what they are doing, and this one certainly did. His fertile imagination soon fills the world with opportunity for good fishing."This pool might be biggerThan you or I know!"He goes on to imagine that it could connect underground all the way to the sea and contain many varieties of fish (Dog Fish, Catfish, or "even a fish made of strawberry jelly" not to mention one with a pinwheel-like tail, another with fins like a sail, and many many more). The book's core is a series of fantastic fish, each more remarkable than the last. The most exciting one to me is a THING-A-MA-JIGGER (that's much bigger than a whale).Having thought about all of these fish, the boy ponders,"Oh, the sea is so full of a number of fish,If a fellow is patient, he might get his wish!"But, the boy is still there with the little pool. What else is he thinking? He's actually congratulating himself for being so wise."And that's why I thinkThat I'm not such a foolWhen I sit here and fishIn McElligot's Pool!"That, of course, is the downside of optimism. You can spend a lot of time doing things that make little sense, in hopes they will pan out. Research has shown that optimists vastly outperform pessimists. The difference seems to be that optimists try more things, and some of them work!
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