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and the hero of two

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'' The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins ''The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins'' is a children's book, written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and published by Vanguard Press in 1938. Unlike the majority of Geisel's books, it is written in prose rather ...

'' (1938) and '' Bartholomew and the Oobleck'' (1949). Besides the two books about him—and the stage adaptations of them—Bartholomew Cubbins also appears as a character in the TV show '' The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss''. Seuss's only film, '' The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.'', has a main character named Bartholomew ''Collins'' who, like his namesake, is a young boy who is wiser than the adults around him.

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Robert L. Short (1932 – July 6, 2009), in his book ''The Parables of Dr. Seuss'', points out that Bartholomew shares a name with one of the apostles of Jesus. Bartholomew Cubbins presses the silly King Derwin of the Kingdom of Didd into humility and repentance, encouraging the king to apologize for his harmful actions.

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