It wasn’t until October 2013, when they decided to have the rest of his notes and sketches appraised, that they closely examined the contents of that box. She and an assistant cleared out his office, donating most of his valuable illustrations and early drafts to the University of California, San Diego, and stashing some doodles and abandoned sketches in a box. Seuss, died in 1991, his widow, Audrey Geisel, decided to renovate their hilltop house in La Jolla, Calif.
Apparently he'd thought it wasn't worth publishing:Īfter Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. It was rediscovered after his death in a box of old notes, together with projects he'd classified as failures.
Seuss saw his original text about feelings and moods as part of the "first book ever to be based on beautiful illustrations and sensational color." The quest for an artist finally ended-after the manuscript languished for more than two decades-at the paint brushes of husband-and-wife team Steve Johnson and Lou Fancherįor What Pet Should I Get, the manuscript was only discovered after his death.Īs noted by Matt Thrower in a comment, Seuss himself never sent What Pet Should I Get to a publisher. Seuss wrote in 1973, was a letter outlining his hopes of finding "a great color artist who will not be dominated by me." The late Dr. But the author wanted to find a great colour artist to complement his writing for the story, and apparently he never found one that satisfied him.Īccompanying a manuscript Dr. My Many Coloured Days, apparently the only posthumously published Seuss work to be written entirely by the man himself, was written in 1973. For My Many Coloured Days, probably because he didn't find a good enough illustrator.
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