New Dr Seuss book set to delight fans

Just weeks after the announcement that Harper Lee's long lost manuscript for Go Set a Watchman would be published, Random House has announced the discovery of a previously unknown Dr Seuss manuscript.

The new book, called What Pet Should I Get? is set to be released in July this year.

The manuscript was discovered by Audrey Geisel, widow of celebrated children's author Ted Geisel, in a box of pages and sketches at their home in California, reports the Daily Telegraph. Dr Seuss author, Theodor "Ted" Seuss Geisel, died in 1991 at the age of 87.

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According to Random House, when Audrey Geisel was renovating her home after his death, she found a box of writings and sketches and set it aside with some of her husband's other materials.

It was rediscovered over 20 years later by Geisel's widow and his secretary Claudia Prescott when they were cleaning out his office. The book features the same brother and sister who appear in Dr Seuss' 1960 classic One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish and is told in Seuss' popular rhyming style, reports the Publishers Weekly.

"While undeniably special, it is not surprising to me that we found this because Ted always worked on multiple projects and started new things all the time," his widow, Audrey Geisel, said in a statement. "He was constantly writing and drawing and coming up with ideas for new stories."

It is also not the first time Geisel's work has been published posthumously. The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories was published in 2011 and Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories was in 2014, using selected stories that had been published in Redbook magazine in the 1950s.

Other posthumously published Seuss titles have included Daisy-Head Mayzie (1995), My Many Colored Days (1996), and Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! (1998).

At least two more books are set be published from material found in the box, though their titles have not yet been disclosed.