![]() ![]() Seuss Estate (DSE) – as the owner of the copyright in the forward and owner of trademark rights in the character, would not grant permission for inclusion of this book on the website dedicated to the work of P. Unfortunately we couldn’t include The Cat in The Hat Beginner Book Dictionary “by the Cat himself and P. caricature on the home page from two self portraits he had done. There really wasn’t a place where you could see all of his books together, plus we thought a short biography (appropriate for children) and a way to get in touch with his family would be useful. Its purpose is to entertain/inform, and at the same time sell books. Now Sue and Tony Eastman (Phil’s son, and one of the best animators in the business himself) have put together a new website dedicated to his father’s books. I loved those books and still have my original battered copies. They influenced a lot of folks who later went into animation and comic art. Sam and The Firefly, Are You My Mother? A Fish Out of Water, and of course Go, Dog, Go! were certainly on my reading list at age 5. But his biggest claim to fame has to be the series of Beginner Books he wrote and drew beginning in the late 1950s. Animation storyman Phil Eastman (1909-1986) worked for Disney, Warner Bros., UPA, even Terrytoons during his career in the 1940s, 50s and 60s. ![]()
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