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Dr. Suess's lost stories

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This isn't so much a review as a shout-out for all the fans of Seuss's wilder stories. I found the book at my library. Title:  Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories Author: Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel); introduction by Charles D. Cohen Publisher: Random House, 2014 Source: Library This volume contains 4 rather brief stories and an interesting introduction to them. The stories were published in magazines in the early 1950s, and for various reason just never got collected before. The stories are: Horton and the Kwuggerbug (featuring Horton of Hatches the Egg and Hears a Who fame) Marco Comes Late (featuring the lead character from And to think that I Saw it on Mulberry Street) How Officer Pat Saved the Whole Town (I think it's still Mulberry Street) and The Hoobub and the Grinch (featuring an early version of the Grinch, who doesn't look much like the one who stole Christmas, and is really a send-up of the advertising business, where Geisel made his living for a