Sneetches
50th Anniversary

$1,695 (Unframed)

One of Dr. Seuss’s wonderfully rich stories is the unforgettable tale of The Sneetches—some with stars on their bellies and some without. It is this star, or lack of it, that brilliantly teaches children about social injustice and the senselessness of discrimination. A testament to the genius of this book came in 1998 when NATO translated The Sneetches and Other Stories into Serbo-Croatian and distributed it to 500,000 children in Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of an information campaign to help encourage racial tolerance.

Audrey Geisel said of this undertaking: “Since my husband died, much has happened that I would have dearly loved to share with him, but none more than to have had him see his Sneetches, whose only territory has been beaches, now have the opportunity to teach their lesson of tolerance in a far more important theater of operations: the minds of the children of Bosnia. He would regard this as among his finest achievements.”
Ted Geisel ends The Sneetches story with a universal truth for all to embrace: “I’m quite happy to say that the Sneetches got really quite smart on that day, the day they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches and no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches. That day, all the Sneetches forgot about stars and whether they had one, or not, upon thars.”

Sneetches - 50th Anniversary
Hand-Pulled Serigraph on Paper
Limited Edition of 295 with 155 Collaborators’ Proofs
99 Patrons’ Collection Serigraphs on Paper
50 Commemorative Proofs NFS
5 Hors d’Commerce
Image Size and Paper Size: 55” x 26”