Kirkus Review
We looked! Where we never expected to see him! Dr. Seuss on the walls of a fine-arts museum! And here, direct from San Diego, are the posters, ads, cartoons, preliminary drawings, and familiar illustrations now en route to New York in the museum's touring exhibition. Also included here are an appreciative introduction by San Diego Museum Director Steven L. Brezzo, a running interview/career chronology by museum curator Mary Stofflet, a checklist of Seussworks (including early ads, cartoons, and drawings by the then Theodor Geisel), and a bibliography of books by and about the man that Mr. Brezzo dubs ""the baby boomers' poet laureate."" For all its art museum origins, this avoids the erudition of a Jonathan Cott in favor of a plain cat-in-the-hatalog for amateur and academic Seussists. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
The catalog of an exhibition of more than 250 artworks spans Theodore Seuss Geisel's entire illustrative career, from notebook sketches (made while not really paying attention to lectures at Oxford in 1925), to working drawings and color proofs of You're Only Old Once, his 1986 best-seller for ``obsolete children.'' It's hard to say anything critical about someone whose work has given so much pleasure to so many, and exhibition curator Mary Stofflet offers an affectionate, whirlwind survey of the life and career. The artwork is beautifully printed in a format conformable to that of the doctor's other tomes big but skinny. The exhibition, which started in San Diego, travels to Pittsburgh, New York, Baltimore, and New Orleans. Chronology, checklist of the exhibition, bibliography. RO. 700'.92 Seuss, Dr. Exhibitions / Illustration of books 20th century U.S. Exhibitions [OCLC] 86-60686
