<![CDATA[The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins]]>

false <![CDATA[The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180995234m/1101936.jpg 7781 9 The haughty ruler of Didd, King Derwin (who would foolishly go on to summon green goo from the sky in his later years) showed the first signs of his silly self-importance back in this 1938 Seuss classic, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins. When Bartholomew visits town one day, selling cranberries at the market for his parents, the King's procession screeches to a halt in front of him; King Derwin then leans out of his coach, demanding to know why Bartholomew hasn't respectfully removed his hat. "But, Sire, my hat is off." He shows the king the hat in his hands that he's just doffed, but sure enough, another identical one sits atop his head. He takes that hat off only to reveal another... and another, and another, and another. Poor Bartholomew goes through 45 hats, then 136, then 233, as the angry king calls in every expert in the kingdom, from Sir Snipps the haberdasher to the Father of the Father of Nadd. In the end, Bartholomew barely gets away with his head (forget about the hats!), as Seuss spins this weird and wacky tale, a strange thing that "just happened to happen and was not very likely to happen again." (Ages 4 to 8) --Paul Hughes 1088828 1938 The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (Classic Seuss) total:1999|5:788|4:588|3:496|2:105|1:22| 1999 8012 2234 59 4 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1980 Sat Jun 14 17:27:49 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 15 09:06:22 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Feb 11 11:30:20 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 11:34:40 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon May 11 13:31:15 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 13:32:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 07:20:08 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 07:37:33 -0800 2009
Magic, a curse?
And all keeping score,
of those 500 hats
Bartholomew wore.

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I found it too long, too wordy, with a unoriginal setting and a plot that is uninspiring.

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Bartholomew Cubbins is struck by a terrible misfortune - every time he takes off his ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1983 Thu Oct 01 17:51:52 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 17:53:45 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Nov 22 12:02:32 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 12:02:56 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1101936