49. "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back" by Dr. Seuss

Having confessed that I'm not a huge fan of the original Cat in the Hat, I was curious to read Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat Comes Back and see if I liked it any better.

Actually, I liked it less. The rhymes seemed so awkward that I had to flip back to the cover to double-check that Seuss himself was the author. (I'm willing to concede that the rhymes weren't helped by the fact that I was listening to Five Finger Death Punch as I read, but I still think the text is unusually unwieldy, especially for Seuss.) My honest impression is that he wasn't particularly excited about writing this book but had to because of the popularity of the original. I could be wrong, of course. And I would imagine that anyone--child or adult--who enjoyed the first book would also like this one, in which the cat introduces a whole alphabet's worth of smaller cats in the quest to rid the house of a pink spot.