Meet Gustav the Goldfish and Zinniga-Zanniga: the lost Dr Seuss books set to charm new generation



It has been described as the ‘literary equivalent of finding buried treasure’.



Cat in the Hat fans will soon be able to get to know Gustav the Goldfish, the Zinniga-Zanniga and other Dr Seuss characters not seen since the 1950s after seven stories were found by a Massachusetts dentist.



The seven rarely-seen stories by the San Diego author, whose books have enchanted generations of children, will finally be published in a book this autumn nearly 20 years after the author died.



Discovered: Seven lost stories by children's author Dr Seuss will be published in new book 'The Bippolo and Other Lost Stories', due to be released in September

Massachusetts dentist and collector of the children’s author’s work, Charles Cohen, found the stories in old magazine pages published between 1948 and 1959 that he was selling on eBay.



Dr Seuss’s art director Cathy Goldsmith stumbled across the sale and went to see Mr Cohen.

She bought the stories and discovered that the seller was an avid Seuss scholar and a huge collector of ‘Seussiana’.



He was signed up to write an encyclopaedia called ‘The Seuss, The Whole Seuss, Nothing but the Seuss,’ and now the seven stories are to published in book ‘The Bippolo Seed and Other Stories’.

The stories include ‘The Bear, the Rabbit and the Zinniga-Zanniga,’ about a rabbit who is saved from a bear with an eyelash, 'Gustav the Goldfish', a fish that grows and grows, and ‘The Bippilo Seed’ in which a scheming cat leads an innocent duck to make a bad decision.

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‘This is exciting for both fans who have known Dr Seuss through their whole life, but also, how neat to share with our children new stories that we can discover the together,’ Susan Brandt, president of Dr Seuss Enterprises told Fox 5 San Diego.



‘In these stories, we'll meet new characters. So you're going to meet the twins Todd and Tadd, you'll meet Gustav the Goldfish and a young boy name Henry McBride, as well as the other fanciful characters Dr. Seuss is known for.’



‘The stories will resonate with Seuss fans because the personalities of these characters are very similar and recognisable. In one of the stories we see a precursor to the 'Cat in the Hat Comes Back,' where that ring is in the bathtub.’



Brandt added that the author's widow, Audrey Geisel, is excited about the new book and the renewed attention it is bringing to Dr Seuss.



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While he was alive, Theodor Geisel published 44 books, including ‘Green Eggs and Ham’, ‘How the Grinch stole Christmas’ and the ‘Cat in the Hat’, under his pen name Dr Seuss.



He won a Pulitzer for his contribution to American education. The ‘Cat in the Hat’ was written following a challenge from his publisher to write a fun story using the list of words given to first-grade schoolchildren to learn.



The new book is due to be published on September 27.



