Description
On Beyond Zebra! (Classic Seuss)
On Beyond Zebra! is Dr. Seuss’s answer to the question of what comes after Z. A young narrator tells his friend, Conrad Cornelius o’Donald O’Dell, that the alphabet everyone learns in school is not the whole story, and invents a fresh set of letters for creatures too strange for A to Z.
The letter Yuzz spells Yuzz-a-ma-Tuzz, the letter High names the High-Gargel-Orum, and dozens more follow in Seuss’s anapestic tetrameter. It is part of the Classic Seuss series, illustrated throughout in his own full-color artwork.
An alphabet beyond A to Z
The fictional letters in this book, Wum, Thnad and Snee among them, exist only to spell out the names of Seuss’s invented creatures. Each new letter is introduced with its own rhyme and its own beast, from the Floob-Boober-Bab-Boober-Bubs to the Umbus.
Rhyme built for reading aloud
The text runs in the same bouncing anapestic tetrameter Seuss used across his best known books, written to be read aloud rather than studied silently. That rhythm is what carries a reader past twenty-six letters and into invented ones without losing the beat.
What the book encourages
- Drawing and inventing letters and creatures beyond what school teaches.
- Reading the alphabet as a starting point rather than a limit.
- Following a narrator and his skeptical friend through a string of invented names.
Book details
- Title: On Beyond Zebra!
- Author: Dr. Seuss
- ISBN-13: 9780394800844
Questions buyers ask
Is this a real alphabet or an invented one?
Invented. Dr. Seuss creates a full set of new letters, each attached to a creature that could not be spelled with A through Z.
Is it part of the Classic Seuss series?
Yes. On Beyond Zebra! is published as part of the Classic Seuss line, with Dr. Seuss’s own full-color illustrations throughout.
Does it rhyme like other Dr. Seuss books?
Yes, it is written in the same anapestic tetrameter that runs through his other Classic Seuss titles, meant to be read aloud.
Who are the two characters in the story?
An unnamed narrator and his friend Conrad Cornelius o’Donald O’Dell, who is convinced the alphabet stops at Z until he is shown otherwise.
What is the ISBN for this edition?
9780394800844.
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