Thank goodness for level-headed, clear-thinking Bartholomew! And we all know that oobleck is very green and sticky stuff. They don’t have a lot of control over what happens with their spells! So, when they put together a spell to add something new to the weather, OOBLECK is what they got. They can start magic, but can’t seem to finish it very well. If you’ve already heard the story of The Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, you know that the royal magicians are a bit bumbling.

“Every year the same four things! I’m mighty tired of those old things! I want something NEW to come down!” “That’s just the trouble!” bellowed the King. “You’ve always had these same four things come down.” “But King Derwin,” Bartholomew tried to calm him.

It was wintertime, and King Derwin was very tired and bored with the weather.Īnd that winter when the snow came down, he started shouting! “This snow! This fog! This sunshine! This rain! Bahh! These four things that come down from my sky!” Seuss! And even though this book is seventy years old, it still provides timeless fun and humor.īartholomew is just a regular kid in the Kingdom of Didd, where King Derwin is not the smartest king on record. Both books were, and still are, so much fun! When I was researching books written in my birth year, I was happy to find the Oobleck book on the list! As a kid, as a Mom, and now as a Grandma, I have always adored Dr. Seuss, was published in 1949, so I grew up listening to this book and his other Bartholomew book, The Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins.

Bartholomew and the oobleck