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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.

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Imprint:   Collins
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 225mm,  Width: 163mm,  Spine: 4mm
Weight:   140g
ISBN:   9780008272005
ISBN 10:   000827200X
Pages:   64
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 3 to 7 years
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  Children/juvenile ,  English as a second language ,  English as a second language
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

Reviews for If I Ran The Circus

Praise for Dr. Seuss: [Dr. Seuss] has...instilled a lifelong love of books, learning and reading [in children] The Telegraph Dr. Seuss ignites a child's imagination with his mischievous characters and zany verses The Express The magic of Dr. Seuss, with his hilarious rhymes, belongs on the family bookshelf Sunday Times Magazine The author... has filled many a childhood with unforgettable characters, stunning illustrations, and of course, glorious rhyme The Guardian Praise for And To Think That I Saw it On Mulberry Street: The cleverest book I have met with for many years. The swing and merriment of the pictures and the natural truthful simplicity of the untruthfulness. Beatrix Potter, author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit


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