Favorite Books
from Throughout My Life
100: The 500 Hats of Bartholomew
Cubbins, 1938, by Dr. Seuss (Dr. Theodore Geisel, 1904-1992)
I read this book in Adams School*
When I was just a boy.
Or did a teacher read aloud
This book that brought such joy?
Bartholomew was set to die
Because the King was mad—
The King insisted, All hats off!
The boy could not—so sad.
He tried, did our Bartholomew,
But every hat removed
Revealed another hat below—
Disloyalty was proved!
But hats came swiftly off—and then
The strangest thing occurred:
Each hat was better than the
one—
And one, the King preferred!
Well, all works out—as children’s books
Are always sure to do.
And I was dazzled by the tale—
This Seuss I would pursue!
*Enid, Oklahoma
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