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''The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories'' is a collection of seven illustrated stories by children's author Dr. Seuss published by Random House on September 27, 2011. Though they were originally published in magazines in the early 1950s, they had never been published in book form and are quite rare, described by the publisher as "the literary equivalent of buried treasure". The stories were discovered by Charles D. Cohen, a Massachusetts dentist and a Seuss scholar and biographer, who also contributed an introduction to the collection. ==Plots== The seven stories included in the book are:〔 *"The Bippolo Seed": a duck finds a rare seed that can grant wishes, but a cat tells him to wish for more than he needs, to get money; they end up losing the seed. *"The Rabbit, the Bear, and the Zinniga-Zanniga": a rabbit escapes being eaten by convincing the bear that he has a rare but serious disorder. *"Gustav, the Goldfish": a boy overfeeds a goldfish, causing it to grow until it fills a cellar. It was later adapted by Helen Palmer as "A Fish Out of Water". *"Tadd and Todd": two identical twins don't like being the same, so they try to be different by enhancing their looks but fail. *"Steak for Supper": a boy brags about his steak dinner, causing strange beasts to follow him home, but it turns out to be stew. *"The Strange Shirt Spot": a boy gets dirt on himself, to his mother's dismay, so he tries to get it off but fails. *"The Great Henry McBride": a boy dreams of having five jobs. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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