dr. seuss

What makes a children's story a complete book? When can it stand alone and when does it belong in an anthology? Sometimes the mechanicals of publication pull tales together in a collection. Other times, an author might publish a series of short stories to view the same theme from a different perspective. I suspect a little of both in Dr. Seuss' Yertle the Turtle and Other Short Stories. These stories were originally copyrighted by the McCall Corporation in 1950 and 1951, with the copyright reverting to Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) and his wife, Audrey, in 1958. While the first story [...]