Gerald McBoing Boing : based on the Academy Award-winning motion picture / by Dr. Seuss ; pictures adapted by Mel Crawford.

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In 1950, Theodor Geisel--known to the world even then as Dr. Seuss--met up with a friend who worked for a new animation studio called United Productions of America. "UPA has a fresh outlook," the friend said. Could Seuss write something new and different for them? Something that had a little more going for it than the usual cats chasing mice? "Just suppose," Seuss came back, "there was a little kid who didn't speak words but only weird sounds?" And that's how Gerald McBoing Boing came into being. Brought to life by UPA as an animated cartoon, it attracted legions of fans, rave reviews, and went on to win an Academy Award® in 1951. Available in book form only briefly at the time of the movie's release, here it is again--unique, delectable, vintage Seuss.

Author Notes

Theodor Seuss Geisel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on March 2, 1904. He wrote and illustrated more than 45 picture books under the pseudonym Dr. Seuss. His first picture book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, was published in 1937. His other books included The Cat in the Hat, The Butter-Battle Book, The Lorax, The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories, Fox in Socks: Dr. Seuss's Book of Tongue Tanglers, What Pet Should I Get?, and Oh, the Places You'll Go. In 1984, he received a Pulitzer Prize for his contributions to children's literature. He died of oral cancer on September 24, 1991 at the age of 87.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (3)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Based on a 1950 Academy Award-winning motion picture by Dr. Seuss, the board book Gerald McBoing Boing Sound Book tells the story of a toddler with an unusual way of communicating: "When he started talking,/ you know what he said?/ He didn't talk words-/ he went boing boing instead!" A sound chip in the back of the book makes the titular sound, and is accessible from all spreads through a die-cut hole in the sturdy pages. Retro artwork adapted by Mel Crawford adds a funny, nostalgic appeal to this book previously published in a longer picture book form. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Horn Book Review

One of booksellers' most frequently requested out-of-print titles is now available once again. Based on an Academy Award-winning animated film, the story concerns young Gerald McCoy, who speaks not in words but in sound effects. This handsome dustjacketed edition is a far cry from the original paper-over-board one, but the story has the unsatisfactory quality of most movie tie-ins. From HORN BOOK Fall 2000, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Kirkus Review

Available briefly as a giveaway in 1951, this is a book to make any latent abandonment anxieties come rushing forth from the closet. Based on Seuss's animated, Academy Award'winning film in 1951, and suitably refitted with retro-1950s illustrations adapted by Crawford, the tale involves Gerald, a young lad who makes not words but onomatopoeic noises. He boings, honks, cuckoos, or booms, while his father despairs: ``A boy of his age/shouldn't sound like a fool./He's got to learn words./We must send him to school.'' The school has rules about boys who make rude sounds, and Gerald's cohorts shun him as well. Even his parents give him his walking papers. ``Poor Gerald decided/that he had no place/At home, in the school'/in the whole human race!'' Off he slips into the night, into the thick of a storm, to hop a slow-moving freight to an uncertain future. At the last moment a voice calls his name. A radio station owner views Gerald's noisemaking as a talent for voiceovers. With Gerald's celebrity comes a host of friends and the love and admiration of his parents. The irony in these pages'the satirical edge, the poke in the eye of such folly'is very subtle, perhaps below the radars of youngest listeners. Older children, and those looking for another round of Seussian rhyme, will take to this celebration of idiosyncrasy. (Picture book. 4-8)

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