Bartholomew Cubbins is a fictional
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Page most commonly refers to:
* Page (paper), one side of a leaf of paper, as in a book
Page, PAGE, pages, or paging may also refer to:
Roles
* Page (assistance occupation), a professional occupation
* Page (servant), traditionally a young m ...
, a pleasant boy, and the hero of two
children's books
A child () is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty, or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty. The term may also refer to an unborn human being. In English-speaking countries, the legal definition of ''chi ...
by
Dr. Seuss: ''
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins'' (1938) and ''
Bartholomew and the Oobleck'' (1949). Cubbins also appears in "King Grimalken and the Wishbones", the first of Seuss's so-called "lost stories" that were only published in magazines. Besides the three printed stories about him—and the stage adaptations of both books—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 is based on Cubbins, and, like his namesake, is a young boy who is wiser than the adults around him.
Claim of religious significance
Robert L. Short (1932–2009), 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.
References
Further reading
* ''Dr. Seuss and Mr. Geisel'', New York, Random House, 1995.
Dr. Seuss characters
Child characters in literature
Male characters in literature
Literary characters introduced in 1938
Fictional servants
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