Bartholomew Cubbins is a fictional page, a pleasant boy, and the hero of two children's books 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.[1] 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.[citation needed] 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.[2]
- ^ Cohen, Charles (24 February 2004). The Seuss, the Whole Seuss and Nothing But the Seuss: A Visual Biography of Theodor Seuss Geisel. Random House Children's Books. pp. 297–298. ISBN 978-0-375-82248-3.
- ^ Lee, Peter W. Y. (12 January 2021). "A Futile Rage Against the Machine: The Triumph of The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T". In Castro, Ingrid E. (ed.). Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other Worlds. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 44. ISBN 978-1-4985-9430-1.