Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, and attended its impending dedication. It would serve Lady Bird’s environmental concerns well, she quickly said, if he donated the book’s art and manuscript to the Lyndon B.
As they sipped Bloody Marys, Liz questioned Ted about the theme of his book. Ted himself began to talk of it as his favorite book.Īlthough The Lorax appeared in the bookstores in the fall of 1971, news of it had reached Americans the previous spring after Ted was cornered at a brunch in San Diego by Liz Carpenter, Lady Bird Johnson’s press secretary. Seuss book The Lorax was ahead of its time and its popularity began to soar only a decade later when the environmental movement exploded. Sales were slower than Random House had come to expect of a Dr.
Ted shrugged, saying, “It’s impossible to tell a story without a moral-either the good guys win or the bad guys win.” Others were disappointed that the book lacked his usual zaniness. Seuss readers, and reviewers were divided.
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