McElligot's Pool
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McElligot's Pool is a 1947 children's book by Dr. Seuss.
It is a tale of a boy who is ridiculed for fishing in a small, polluted pool. In typical Seussian fashion, when confronted with the limitations of his situation, the young boy imagines ways in which he could catch any number of any kind of fish in the small pool.
The simple story features many Seussian themes, including the imaginative boy and his fantastic fancied fish. However, it is far more repetitive than his later works. The illustrations are shaded colored pencil rather than the later pen and ink which defined his style.
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In Suessical, McElligot's Pool is Jojo's bathtub and the Cat in the Hat persuades Jojo to not give up thinking (Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!(reprise)). Jojo imagines that he is not in his bathtub at all; but in a polluted pool called McElligot's pool. He dreams that an underground river is under his bathtub, to "under this bathtub, and then, who knows?" (It's Possible) And Jojo tells himself "i'm not such a fool when i sit here and fish in McElligot's Pool." The Act is broekn by Jojo himself singing a chorous and then it fades. The song is followed by a reprise (It's Possible(reprise) and that is followed by Mr. and Mrs. Mayor (How to Raise a Child) When the cat gives them a booklet and they send Jojo to a military school.
