McGrew appears to be a painter or welder. When a daisy suddenly sprouts from the top of Mayzie McGrew’s head, she is faced with the fear and greed of adults, her parents’ dismay, and a publicity agent’s greed.Īnd poor Mayzie learns that love is more important than fame and fortune.

Instead he simply jumps from all those piles of tens to the last ten pages of Mayzie fleeing and discovering what is truly important. I wish that Seuss had spent more time on Mayzie becoming unhappy with being a celebrity. The next four pages are about ol’ Finagle getting a jumpstart on today’s culture of celebretizing anything different and was such a twist on where Seuss had been heading it’s as if Seuss couldn’t decide which way to swing and threw in a sudden thought without bothering to hook it up. The first is the adults’ reactions to Mayzie’s startling appearance, on which Seuss spends three-fourths of the story. I started this, thinking it would be about the kids teasing Mayzie unmercifully, but it turns out to have two different “conflicts”. And somehow, the publicity agent entices Mayzie into signing. The mayor jumps on his soapbox and has hysterics about daisies taking over. The doctor sees her in terms of his future. The principal treats her like a diseased thing that has to be isolated.

What’s not nice is the adults’ reactions. A nice bit of science in terms of where daisies grow. All those lovely books and so very Seussian in their positions, lol. The illustrations are lively in softly bright colors. It makes you want to sing along as you read. Seuss has done a beautiful job of rhyming the story and the children’s dialogue.

Hmmm, makes me wonder if Mayzie has been washing her hair! Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Sneetches and Other Stories, Horton Hatches the Egg & Horton Hears a Who!, Green Eggs and Ham, The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories, The Lorax, Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!, Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose, The King's Stilts, Scrambled Eggs Super!, Bartholomew and the Oobleck, Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories, You're Only Old Once!, My Many Colored Days, McElligot's Pool, If I Ran the Circus, Sleep Book, I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories, I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!Ī standalone story about appearances, celebrity, and they love me, they love me not… My TakeĪs I started reading, I suddenly thought of parental admonitions about washing behind your ears lest potatoes start to grow, lol. Seussįantasy, picture book in Paperback edition that was published by Random House for Young Readers on Januand has 56 pages.

This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review.

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