The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories

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You will love this book, it contains 7 long lost Dr. Seuss stories that you can listen to or read all by yourselves. The stories were recently discovered in old magazines and transformed by Oceanhouse Media into this great iPad / iPhone app. Let’s explore them, shall we?

The Bippolo Seed

A duck called McLluck got lucky: while he was walking around he discovered a small silver box with a message engraved:

Isn’t that great?

At first the duck is being reasonable, he just wishes to have food for a week.

But then, a weird fellow shows up (pictured here in the left), suggesting the duck something more…convenient…for both.

I believe the cat looks suspicious and I am afraid something bad is going to happen to the poor duck… You have to read the story and let us know how it ends

The Bear, the Rabbit, and the Zinniga-Zanniga

My favorite of all 7, the story is about a hungry bear who prepares to eat a small, innocent, cute, fragile, defenseless… bunny.

The rabbit needs to think of something, and quick!

He “discovers” that the bear has 9 eyelashes on one eye and ten on the other which might explain why the bear might suffer from headaches, sour throat, back pain and other imaginary disease.

If you ask me, I think the bear does not look very well. The fact that his eyelashes imbalanced his body might bring the bear closer to death than otherwise expected.

How is this going to end? And what’s a Zinniga-Zanniga?

Gustav the Goldfish

If you ever thought that goldfish are small because this is how Mother Nature made them, well.. think again. But first read this amazing (TRUE!!!) story of Gustav.

Yeah right!! What can possible happen when you feed such a tiny fish with a little more food than usual? Let’s not overreact people !!! It’s not like he’s going to grow as big as a whale or something. Right? Right?

Tadd and Todd

Tadd and Todd are two identical twins who are very hard to distinguish from each other. They say that not even their mom can say “Which one was what one, and what one was who”.

Todd (the one on the right) is ok with this and thinks this is quite funny, but Tadd (the one on the left) wants people to find who he really is and stop mistaken him for his brother. This is not funny.

So he starts to plan how to make himself obvious. And, I think, he found a really good idea.

Steak for Supper

You might want to be careful what you’re saying.

Especially if you mention what you are going to eat tonight, like our fellow just did. Why?

Because someone might hear you and follow you.

I’m not being hysterical here, something baaaaaaad might happen…

The Strange Shirt Spot

The adventures of a boy who desperately tries to get rid of a dirt spot. He tries a few tricks but he only gets to transfer the spot from his shirt to the bath tub, his mom’s best dress and even the cat!! Sounds familiar?

The Great Henry McBride

What do you want to be when you’ll grow up? Henry McBride already knows. For sure. Can you guess?

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