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This could be a reference to his father running the forest park zoo in his hometown, Springfield, Massachusetts.Īn animation short directed and produced by Ray Messecar and narrated by Bret Ambler.

The small play area is located inside the area of the park known as Seuss Landing, and is themed in the Seussean way Dr. Seuss's 'If I Ran the Zoo' book is also the main theme for one of the children's play areas at Universal Studios' Islands of Adventure. Oceanhouse Media published this book to be used as an app on Iphones, Ipod touch, Ipad and android apps. Seuss Video Classics' Video series which also features How the Grinch Stole Christmas! This Book has been used for a Random House inc production entitled 'Dr. Hoober-Bloob shows them a variety of different animals, including ones from 'If I Ran The Zoo', such as Obsks, Bippo-No-Bungus, a Tizzle-Topped Tufted Mazurka, the helicopter bug, the Chuggs, the hens that roost atop each other, and an Elephant-Cat. In this segment, Hoober-Bloob babies don't have to be human if they don't choose to be, so Mr. Some of the animals featured in 'If I Ran the Zoo' have been featured in a segment of The Hoober-Bloob Highway, a 1975 CBS TV Special. He also imagines the praise he receives from others, who are amazed at his 'new Zoo, McGrew Zoo'. Throughout the book he lists these creatures, starting with a lion with ten feet and escalating to more imaginative (and imaginary) creatures, such as the Fizza-ma-Wizza-ma-Dill, 'the world's biggest bird from the island of Gwark, who eats only pine trees, and spits out the bark.' The illustrations also grow wilder as McGrew imagines going to increasingly remote and exotic habitats and capturing each fanciful creature, bringing them all back to a zoo now filled with his wild new animals. He says that if he ran the zoo, he would let all of the current animals free and find new, more bizarre and exotic ones.

In the book, Gerald McGrew is a kid who, when visiting a zoo, finds that the exotic animals are 'not good enough'. If I Ran the Zoo is often credited with the first printed modern English use of the word 'nerd,' in the sentence 'And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo/And Bring Back an It-Kutch, a Preep, and a Proo,/A Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker too!' The book is likely a tribute to a child's imagination, because it ends with a reminder that all of the extraordinary creatures exist only in McGrew's head. The book is written in anapestic tetrameter, Seuss's usual verse type, and illustrated in Seuss's trademark pen and ink style.

If I Ran the Zoo is a children's book written by Dr.

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