Chatul Taalul - The Cat In The Hat

The Cat in the Hat, perhaps the defining book of Dr. Seuss's career, developed as part of a unique joint venture between Houghton Mifflin (Vanguard Press) and Random House. Houghton Mifflin asked Dr. Seuss to write and illustrate a children's primer using only 225 "new-reader" vocabulary words. Because he was under contract to Random House, Random House obtained the trade publication rights, and Houghton Mifflin kept the school rights. With the release of The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss became the definitive children's book author and illustrator.