I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

Dr. Seuss's 1978 Beginner Book has the Cat in the Hat show Young Cat how much a reader can learn from books on almost any subject. In rhyming couplets the Cat admits that reading with eyes shut is hard and explains that the more one reads, the more one will know, and the more one learns, the more places one will go. Seuss dedicated the book to his ophthalmologist, David Worthen, as his own eyesight was failing.

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