Cover Story

The Doctor of Philosophy

December 1991
Cover Story
The Doctor of Philosophy
December 1991

THE GRINCH was a latent Santa Claus, yes, but the book was mostly about greed and ultimate redemption.

THE CONSERVATIONIST Lorax didn't cut it with lumberjacks.

GENTLER PROSELYTIZING included pro-nature McElligot's Pool and the Horton books an anti-isolationist tract and a bouquet to the behombed Japanese.

WITH ITS SCARY portrayal of a nuclear boomeroo, the battle between Zooks and yooks had Seuss's critics crying "gadzoks."