If I Ran The Circus

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If I Ran the Circus by Dr. Seuss is a whimsical story about a young boy named Morris McGurk, who envisions transforming a vacant lot into the most spectacular circus imaginable. His imagination runs wild as he describes an array of extraordinary acts and fantastical creatures he would include. The book celebrates creativity, ambition, and the power of dreams, filled with Seuss's signature playful rhymes and vibrant illustrations.
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If I Ran The Circus

In this delightful classic from the one and only Dr. Seuss, Morris McGurk dreams about staging the world’s greatest show!

A funny and silly picture book from the classic bestselling children's author

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In this delightful classic from the one and only Dr. Seuss, Morris McGurk dreams about staging the world’s greatest show!

Join Morris McGurk for the world’s greatest show, packed with the most tremendous, stupendous acts ever seen, from the Spotted Atrocious – a beast most ferocious – to the Drum-Tummied Snumm from the country of Frumm. If only he ran the circus…

With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat, and ranking among the UK’s top ten favourite children’s authors, Seuss is firmly established as a global best-seller, with over 600 million books sold worldwide.

As part of a major rebrand programme, HarperCollins is relaunching Dr. Seuss’s bestselling books, including such perennial favourites as The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham and Fox in Socks. In response to consumer demand, the bright new cover designs incorporate much-needed guidance on reading levels, with the standard paperbacks divided into three reading strands – Blue Back Books for parents to share with young children, Green Back Books for budding readers to tackle on their own, and Yellow Back Books for older, more fluent readers to enjoy. If I Ran the Circus belongs to the Yellow Back Book range.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780008272005

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 September 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: HarperCollins

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 4.0mm

Width: 163.0mm

Height: 225.0mm

Weight: 140g

Pages: 64

About the Author

Theodor Seuss Geisel – better known to millions of his fans as Dr. Seuss – was born the son of a park superintendent in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1904. After studying at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, and later at Oxford University in England, he became a magazine humorist and cartoonist, and an advertising man. He soon turned his many talents to writing children’s books, and his first book – And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street – was published in 1937. His greatest claim to fame was the one and only The Cat in the Hat, published in 1957, the first of a hugely successful range of early learning books known as Beginner Books. In all Dr. Seuss wrote more than 40 children's books during a career that spanned over 50 years, picking up numerous awards, including two Emmy awards for television and a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation along the way.

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