

Helen, who had ongoing medical problems and had suffered a small stroke in April 1957, nevertheless acted as an unofficial editor, as she had with previous Dr. He had recently completed The Cat in the Hat and was in the midst of founding Beginner Books with Phyllis and Bennett Cerf and his wife, Helen Palmer Geisel.

Seuss began work on How the Grinch Stole Christmas! a couple of years later, around the beginning of 1957. Seuss called "The Hoobub and the Grinch," which was originally published in the May 1955 edition of Redbook magazine.

The Grinch first appeared in a 33-line illustrated poem by Dr. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. Demy folio,, full pictorial cloth sans dust jacket, unpaginated.
