(1) This collection is a sequel to a previous torrent labeled "Dr Seuss Vol. 1".

It
contains the following five books:

*7. Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose (1948)

*8. Bartholomew and the Oobleck (1949)

*9. If I Ran the Zoo (1950)

*10. Scrambled Eggs Super! (1953)

*13. If I Ran the Circus (1956)

The previous collection, Vol.1, can be found here:

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4836292/Dr_Seuss_Vol_1

I've decided to re-number the books in this and subsequent sets to include all 44
books in a single numerical list. (This can be seen in the enclosed bibliography
file). This means retroactively incorporating "The Seven Lady Godivas" as book 4
(though it's not finished yet), so that this group begins with 7 rather than 6;
"Godivas will be in some later collection. So will 11 and 12, as I've been working
out-of-order.

(2) The files are in .cbz format: "comic book archives." You can find a number of
free viewers for these online; here's a list:
http://www.zcultfm.com/~comic/wiki/index.php/Comic_Viewers

In any case, the files are simply zip-archives full of invividual image files. If
you want you can rename each file from *.cbz to *.zip, and extract those to look at
them in any image viewer

(3) The general project was to scan te books and then work the images up to a very
high quality so that, as far as possible, they look more like pure cartoons and
less like pictures of paper. I think this has generally worked out successfully.
Some notes on particular books:

(4) "Bartholomew" revisits the hero of "The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (in the
third volume of what Louis Menard calls Dr Seuss's great political trilogy). The
artwork is, again, subtle pencil shading and chiaroscuro offset with bright
splashes of a single color--now green rather than red. These books were very tricky
to make look right, since almost any method of image enhancement tends to wipe out
some of the fine details in the pencil work. At many points I think the image is to
faded, although this was prtly a matter of the quality of the original scans. The
green was also quite tricky. Seuss's biographers report that he demanded his
printers put the green ink on top of black pencil shading, so the latter would show
through somewhat and lend a particularly lurid air to it. This proved a difficult
sense to keep intact on teh computer scren; I've compensated, I hope, by adding to
the green a degree of surreal saturation it could never get on the printed page.
Everywhere else on the pages, I desaturated the bits of color the scanner and the
paper tend to introduce, to get a purer greyscale. (On one page, with the wizards
in their cave, I left in and even enhanced the green everywhere on the image, since
I felt it added a wonderful eerieness to that one image. I hope this wasn't too
much creative license.)

(5) Thidwick the Big-Hearted Canadian, done largely with colored pencil that
highlights the texture of the paper surface, was also tricy to work with for the
same reasons, and I'm less satisfied with the result.
(6) Both of those are the only full-out narrative stories in this collection. The
other three are (like McElligot's Pool in the previous group) fantastical
bestiaries. Not fish, this time, but animals in one, birds in another, and a
mixture of animals and circus attractions in the third. They have only the most
tenuous of plots holding them together, although the running joke about Mr Sneelock
in If I Ran the Circus is a delight. The narrators--Gerald McGrew, Peter T. Hooper,
and Morris McGurk, are of course variations of the same type as "Marco" from two of
the earlier books

(7) These latter three also use what would become Dr Seuss's standard pen-and-ink
style of bold lines and solid colors. This is the easient to capture on the
computer screen, and indeed I think If I Ran the Zoo is the first of these books to
come out as perfectly as I'd like visually.