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Review Of The Book 'On Beyond Zebra !'
Dr. Seuss died of cancer on September 24, 1991, at the age of 87, in La Jolla, California. In 1991 a few week before his death, Judith and Neil Morgan asked him if there was anything he might have left unsaid. He said “Any message or slogan? Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‘you can do better than this.’ The best slogan I can think of to leave with the kids of the U.S.A. would be ‘we can… and we’ve got to… do better than this.’’ Seuss wrote books that made people think and imagine. In the book On Beyond Zebra! , he invented an entirely new alphabet because, as the book’s narrator explains, “In the places I go there are things that I see / That I never could spell if I stopped with the Z. / I’m telling

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