--- title: Rainn Wilson Narrates Dr. Seuss's What Pet Should I Get? description: The 'Office' star lends his voice to a posthumous publication from Seuss canonical: https://time.com/3968269/dr-seuss-rainn-wilson-what-pet-should-i-get/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-23T14:18:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T09:29:31.070Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Rainn Wilson Narrates Dr. Seuss's What Pet Should I Get? og:description: The 'Office' star lends his voice to a new children's book from the master og:url: https://time.com/3968269/dr-seuss-rainn-wilson-what-pet-should-i-get/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfb43e79ccdfbbb4b/69885c1ae20a8713e2a8c669/what-pet.jpeg?branch=production&width=524&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 524 og:image:height: 295 og:image:alt: what-pet og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Rainn Wilson Narrates Dr. Seuss's What Pet Should I Get? twitter:description: The 'Office' star lends his voice to a new children's book from the master twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfb43e79ccdfbbb4b/69885c1ae20a8713e2a8c669/what-pet.jpeg?branch=production&width=524&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Exclusive Clip: Rainn Wilson Narrates the New Dr. Seuss Book > Sponsored content. 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But in 2013, his widow, Audrey, and longtime friend and secretary, Claudia Prescott, discovered a box of material that included, among other snippets of imagination, the draft for [_What Pet Should I Get?_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0553524267/?tag=timecom-20)The book features the same brother and sister from _One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish_ shopping at a pet store for a new friend to take home. _What Pet,_ which goes on sale next week, has already generated serious interest—the initial printing is 1 million copies. Random House VP and associate publishing director for children’s books Cathy Goldsmith says, “My guess is that it won’t be very long before there is a second printing.” Goldsmith, who worked with Seuss on his art in his later years, explained the decision to publish _What Pet_ posthumously, noting that if Geisel were still alive “he’d be giving us new books. And I think we’re also respectful enough and grateful enough for what he did write to have not published this if we thought it wasn’t worthy.” The legacy of Seuss was plenty shored up by Geisel’s 44 illustrated volumes (_What Pet_ will make 45), which have sold 650 million copies worldwide. As Eloise illustrator Hilary Knight put it, “The lasting characters that are born in children’s books become part of our culture, and better still, part of our lives. Ted Geisel’s did all of that with his totally original style.” And Hollywood actors are among his fans, too: they’ve lent their voices to Seuss characters on the big screen for decades, from Boris Karloff’s 1966 Grinch to Jim Carrey’s 2000 version, to Mike Myers’ Cat in the Hat (2003) to Danny DeVito’s Lorax (2012). 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