Rediscovered Dr Seuss pet book breaking sales records

What Pet Should I Get? is publisher’s fastest-selling picture book yetHarper Lee’s Go Set A Watchman is not the only recently discovered work to be breaking records this summer. Dr Seuss’s long-forgotten manuscript What Pet Should I Get? has sold 200,000 copies in just a week, its American publisher has announced.The rhyming guide to choosing an animal companion has some way before it matches the 1.1m sales Lee notched up in the first week after publication, but, according to Random House Children’s Books, the latest addition to the Seuss canon is the fastest-selling picture book in its history. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2015-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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