--- description: 'What Pet Should I Get?' will be released in July title: Dr. Seuss Unpublished Book to be Released: Facts About the Author image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteee6156fcaa98df8/69877fb5cd68483c25099c0a/seuss.jpeg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [History](/section/history/) ## History Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Books](/tag/books/) ## Books Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Celebrate the New Dr. Seuss Book With a New Fact About the Author  by [Lily Rothman](/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Feb 18, 2015 3:51 PM CUT  Dr Seuss sits at his drafting table in his home office with a copy of his book, 'The Cat in the Hat', La Jolla, Calif., Apr. 25, 1957. Dr Seuss sits at his drafting table in his home office with a copy of his book, 'The Cat in the Hat', La Jolla, Calif., Apr. 25, 1957.Gene Lester—Getty Images  by [Lily Rothman](/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Feb 18, 2015 3:51 PM CUT Fans of cats in hats and pops being hopped on learned on Wednesday that [a new Dr. Seuss book](http://time.com/3713274/new-dr-seuss-book/ "undefined") is on the way: in July, Random House will published _What Pet Should I Get?_, a manuscript the late and legendary writer likely completed in the late 1950s or early ’60s but never published. Just a few months ago, several stories that Seuss wrote for _Redbook_ in the 1950s were published under the title _Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories_. In honor of that released, we [combed TIME’s archives for some Seuss-ian history](http://time.com/3304192/dr-seuss-facts/ "undefined"), and turned up these five facts: --- > “” --- Now, in honor of the new story coming to light, here’s another fact to add to the list: Dr. Seuss said that he thought the idea of academic analysis of his work was pretty silly. His books were, as he put it, “logical insanity.” **_Read the full 1967 profile of Dr. Seuss here, in TIME’s archives:_** [The Logical Insanity of Dr. Seuss](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,899723,00.html "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3713298/dr-seuss-new-book-new-fact/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3713298/dr-seuss-new-book-new-fact/"},"headline":"Celebrate the New Dr. Seuss Book With a New Fact About the Author","datePublished":"2015-02-18T15:51:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T04:30:38.281Z","description":"'What Pet Should I Get?' will be released in July","url":"https://time.com/3713298/dr-seuss-new-book-new-fact/","keywords":["Books","Children"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteee6156fcaa98df8/69877fb5cd68483c25099c0a/seuss.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lily Rothman","jobTitle":"Rothman is managing editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteee6156fcaa98df8/69877fb5cd68483c25099c0a/seuss.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Dr Seuss Holds 'The Cat In The Hat'","caption":"Dr Seuss Holds 'The Cat In The Hat'","creditText":"Gene Lester—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3713298/dr-seuss-new-book-new-fact/","name":"Celebrate the New Dr. Seuss Book With a New Fact About the Author"}}]}] ```