![]() ![]() At a time when children’s books encouraged their readers to be seen and not heard, miniature adults in their pressed shirts and frilly dresses, Dr. They might as well have summoned the Cat. The Cat in the Hat didn’t wrap up with a neat, Aesop-like moral, but if it has one, it’s the Cat’s words “It’s fun to have fun, but you’ve got to know how.” And if so, the two uptight little Dick-and-Jane-alikes clearly haven’t learned it, because this is how The Cat in the Hat Comes Back opens: But since his charges hadn’t learned their lesson the first time, he has to return to see if he can make it stick. ![]() The Cat in the Hat ended him with him restoring the ordered world he’d spent a few pages dismantling. Seuss himself in I Can Read with My Eyes Shut), the Cat in the Hat is probably the best modern-day incarnation of the Trickster God: a kind of kid-friendly version of Anansi or Coyote, bringing chaos to the mortal realm. Rogers, in latter-day adaptations like The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That or Seussical the Musical (and even by Dr. Even though he’s been softened into a bland teacher, a kind of fuzzy Mr. He is, after all, the ultimate prankster, making fools out of everyone, April and every other month. The Cat in the Hat Comes Back might be the perfect book to review today. ![]()
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