The Cat in the Hat is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and first published in 1957. The story centers on a tall anthropomorphic cat, who wears a red and white-striped hat and a red bow tie. The Cat shows up at the house of Sally and her brother one rainy day when their mother is away. Despite the repeated objections of the children's fish, the Cat shows the children a few of his tricks in an attempt to entertain them. In the process he and his companions, Thing One and Thing Two, wreck the house. The children and the fish become more and more alarmed until the Cat produces a machine that he uses to clean everything up and disappears just before the children's mother comes home.
“And this mess is so big
And so deep and so tall,
We cannot pick it up.
There is no way at all!”
Source: The Cat in the Hat
“you find magic wherever you look. sit back and relax. all you need is a book”
Variant: You can find magic
wherever you look.
Sit back and relax,
all you need is a book.
Source: The Cat in the Hat
“The sun did not shine.
It was too wet to play.
So we sat in the house
All that cold, cold, wet day.”
Source: The Cat in the Hat (1957)
“I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.”
Source: The Cat in the Hat
Source: The Cat in the Hat
“We looked! Then we saw him
Step in on the mat!
We looked! And we saw him!
The Cat in the Hat!”
The Cat in the Hat (1957)
