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This story comes after And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street and revolves around the amazingly imaginative Marco. In 1950, McElligot's Pool won the Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award, and in 1948, it won the Caldecott Honor. My Take I had barely started before I knew the graphics would be such a very Seuss-ian delight, *grin*
22 de abr. de 2021 · McElligot's Pool. pond known as McElligot's Pool. A local farmer laughs at the boy and. tells him that he will never be able to catch anything. Nevertheless, be able to catch a fish. The story begins with a boy named Marco fishing in a small, trash-filled pond known as McElligot's Pool. A local farmer laughs at the boy and tells him that...
1 de jul. de 2010 · McElligot's Pool. Paperback – International Edition, July 1, 2010. Who knows what fantastic fish might swim in McElligot's Pool! In this colorful picture book, a boy named Marco goes fishing in a small pond called McElligot's Pool. As he sits waiting for a bite, a farmer tells him "You'll never catch fish in McElligot's Pool!"
1 de ene. de 1974 · McElligot's Pool is a great story of a child not listening to a nay-sayer and proceeding with positivity and the optimism of a hopeful angler. Throughout, in classic Seuss fashion, the child displays the imagination of youth as he describes the possibilities of fish that he could catch if he remains "patient and cool."
14 de mar. de 2021 · The Art Of ‘McElligot’s Pool’. On: March 14, 2021. In: Art and Design. One of my favorite books as a kid was McElligot’s Pool, by Dr. Seuss. He published it in 1947, and my mom read it to me in the sixties. It gave me a sense of possibility… who knows what might be out there?
2 de mar. de 2021 · There is only one mention of McElligot’s Pool in that study. Here it is: Between 1945 and 1946, Seuss worked for Frank Capra in the army to create films called Know Your Enemy: Japan and Our Job in Japan (Minear 261). The latter was made to indoctrinate US servicemen to “re-educate” the “backward” Japanese (Minear 262).
A small pool might not be all that it appears. It could run into an underground stream, which might lead to the sea and from there to all the rivers and places in the world. And if you were to fish there, who knows what you might find. The possibilities are as improbable and as infinitely varied as the imagination can make them.
