Adapted posthumously from an early concept drawing and the final illustration for the 1957 book,* The Cat in the Hat.*

Adapted posthumously from the final illustration for the 1957 book,* The Cat in the Hat. * The August 13, 2007, issue of U.S. News & World Report *declared 1957 to be *“A Year that Changed America.” The article focused on ten disparate events including one called: The Birth of a Famous Feline. It read in part: “In the 50 years since The Cat in the Hat *exploded onto the children’s book scene, Theodor Seuss Geisel has become a central character in the American literary mythology, sharing the pantheon with the likes of Mark Twain and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Of his many imaginative stories, *The Cat in the Hat remains the most iconic.”