An orange fellow is told to leave over and over and over again. So it clearly has nothing to do with the state of the world today. As we mention on today’s podcast episode, when it finally occurred to Betsy to have Kate read this book, she was slightly worried that maybe it would no longer be timely. HA HA! No worries there! We go through all the political ties it has had to world leaders, and Kate brings up the peculiar aspect of watching someone berate a little cute guy into leaving. I mean, whose side are we supposed to be on here? “This poor cutie-patootie”. If you’ve never listened to one of our podcasts before, we might recommend this as a place to start. It’s a lot of fun.

Show Notes:

Betsy's Mooney info about whether or not this book had any direct ties to calls for Richard Nixon to resign can be found on pages 20 and 21 of the book Wild Things: Acts of Mischief in Children’s Literature which she co-wrote with Jules Danielson and Peter Sieruta: http://wildthings.blaine.org/?page_id=2

Yeah. I think you could make a good Donald J. Trump Will You Please Go Now! mock picture book but this is not it: https://archive.org/details/DJTWYPGNBook/mode/2up

Interested in that puzzle Kate mentioned? Feel free to purchase it here: https://www.target.com/p/puzzleworks-vintage-christmas-1000-piece-jigsaw-puzzle/-/A-80041949

Meanwhile here’s a link to that Bill Nye podcast Science Rocks where he talks with Yuval Noah Harari about the roll of storytelling in the development of the human species. If you’re an author and want to justify your existence on earth, this will help: https://www.stitcher.com/show/science-rules-with-bill-nye/episode/yuval-noah-harari-charts-the-evolution-of-homo-sapiens-200207067

For the full Show Notes please visit us at: http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2020/12/07/fuse-8-n-kate-marvin-k-mooney-will-you-please-go-now-by-dr-seuss/