McElligot's Pool [SEP] publisher
McElligot's Pool
McElligot's Pool is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and published by Random House in 1947. In the story, a boy named Marco, who first appeared in Geisel's 1937 book "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street", imagines a wide variety of strange fish that could be swimming in the pond in which he is fishing.
Plot.
The story begins as a boy named Marco fishes in a small, trash
-filled pond, McElligot's Pool. A local farmer laughs at the boy and tells him that he is never going to catch anything. Nevertheless, Marco holds out hope and begins to imagine a scenario in which he might be able to catch a fish. First, he suggests that the pool might be fed by an underground brook that travels under a highway and a hotel to reach the sea. Marco then imagines a succession of fish and other creatures that could be in the sea and therefore the pool. He imagines