On September 9, Random House will publish four stories originally published in Redbook magazine from 1950 to 1955 and then largely forgotten. “Horton and the Kwuggerbug and Other Lost Stories” is the product of the detective work of Charles Cohen, a collector of all things Seussian. He calls the four story “fresh encounters with old friends familiar places.”
“Horton and the Kwuggerbug” features Horton, Seuss faithful elephant, and a crafty insect. “Marco Comes Late” is about Marco from “And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street” and why he is late for school. “How Officer Pat Saved the Whole Town” is set on Mulberry Street. “The Hoobub and the Grinch” is about another Grinch, not the 1957 Grinch, who feels that “everyone is a mindless consumer who can be manipulated.”
Seuss fans will enjoy these “new” stories that feature something old, as well as, something new.