and you think i saw it on mulberry street

He imagines the horse is first a zebra, then a reindeer, then an elephant, and finally an elephant helped by two giraffes. To make his story more interesting, Marco imagines progressively more elaborate scenes based around the horse and wagon. The story begins as a boy named Marco walks home from school, thinking of his father's advice: 'Marco, keep your eyelids up/ And see what you can see.' However, the only thing Marco has seen on his walk is a horse pulling a wagon on Mulberry Street. They are mentioned in passing, and it can be assumed that the protagonist thinks of them as intellectually inferior. Parker, the 38th mayor of Geisel's hometown, Springfield, Massachusetts. Allegedly the mayor is a facsimile of Fordis C. Two important town leaders and spectators of the parade Marco dreams up, said to be waving red, white, and blue patriotic flags.

The lead policeman whom Marco imagines leading the elephant-drawn brass band with his squadron to avoid oncoming traffic from the perpendicular Bliss Street. It is unknown what his reactions would be when Marco told him that he just saw a plain horse and wagon on Mulberry Street.

He's very suspicious and finds his son's eyesight 'too keen,' claiming he should see the world as it really is, and not what he dreams it to be. He is particularly upset by this conflict, and it takes the duration of the story for his dynamic change to shape him into a more honest and humble individual. He has a history of run-ins with Dad for telling wild stories. The narrator of the book, a young boy who encounters a horse and cart on the way home from school. Oceanhouse Media published this book to be used as an app on Iphones, Ipod touch, Ipad and android apps.

It centers on themes of childhood imagination and how whimsical behavior is stifled by adult society, following the protagonist Marco as he concocts an elaborate scene out of a horse-drawn cart so he will have something to tell Dad, the unseen antagonist, when he gets home from school. Seuss, published in 1937 by chance, after Seuss nearly burned the manuscript in defeat following an alleged 27 publishing house rejections, but happened to run into an editor friend, Mike McClintock. Marco, Dad, Sergeant Mulvaney, the Mayor, the AldermanĪnd to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, originally titled A Story That No One Can Beat, is the first book by Dr. Please continue at your own risk.ĭecember 21st, 1937 by Vanguard Press, Inc., New York Warning! This page contains content that can be seen as mature or inappropriate for younger audiences.

And you think i saw it on mulberry street