Seuss book with the versatile Cat In The Hat given the role of narrator. With the bare bones of the story and sketches from a film and several Seussian manuscripts, the editors have cobbled together the complete story of Mayzie into an offering with the familiar look of of a Dr. Seuss could shape it into a parable of public paranoia, instant celebrity, and multiplying media mania of the sort first portrayed in earlier, gentler times in Geisel's first book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. While some of the iambic quatrains may seem a bit strained, only Theodor Seuss Geisel could come up with a character like Mayzie, an ordinary humdrum girl, whose noggin sprouts a posy, and only Dr. Seuss' Daisy-Head Mayzie (Classic Seuss), restored from an incomplete draft discovered in a desk drawer and several cameo roles by Mayzie in a film and in a collection of Seuss stories, also narrated by versatile Cat in the Hat. This daisy on Mayzie will be disconnected.īut it's too late for that! Maysie's daisy goes viral and soon she's the object of a media frenzy, in Dr.
"I promise, my friends, if I am re-elected, The Mayor instantly sees a political angle in the situation. Principal Gregory Grummm, ( as smart as they come,) summons Mayzie's mum and assorted experts-Finch the florist and Dr. It seems well rooted in Mayzies' cranium. Her classmate Einstein Van Tas and her teacher Miss Sneetchen inspect the bloom. Something peculiar was going on up there.Ī DAISY was sprouting right out of the air. Maysie looked up, and she almost dropped dead. When she felt a small twitch on the top of her head. Maysie is busy at her desk at school, working away. With average brown hair and prim but unremarkable garb, she seems a girl who will never surprise anyone.īut on a dull school day, it happens this way: Mayzie McGrew is the sort of girl who doesn't stand out in a crowd. It's hard to believe such a thing could be true.Īnd I hope such a thing never happens to you.īut it happened, they say, to poor Mayzie McGrew.
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