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Dr Seuss 'set out to steal children鈥檚 minds'

A rediscovered Dr Seuss book - What Pet Shall I Get? 鈥 was released in the US on Tuesday.

鈥淢y whole generation of writers was influenced by those books,鈥 said Meg Rosoff, a US-born children鈥檚 author living in UK.

鈥淗e really did set out to steal children鈥檚 minds, which is what I love about him,鈥 added Ms Rosoff, who wrote the award winning How I Live Now.

鈥淗e鈥檚 the original stalker!鈥

Cult reading for American children, works by Theodor Geisel, who died in 1991, include The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, and have sold more than 650 million copies worldwide.

Dr Seuss died in 1991 but another book discovered only recently is published today in the United States.

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