The book opens with an explanation of how people in the Kingdom of Didd still talk about "the year the King got angry with the sky", and how Bartholomew Cubbins, King Derwin's page boy, saved the kingdom. The book was named a Caldecott Honor Book in 1950. Why can't we have something different for a change?" During a rainstorm, one of his fellow soldiers remarked, "Rain, always rain. Geisel said he drew inspiration for the book from a conversation he overheard while stationed in Belgium during World War II.
Unlike most of Geisel's books, which are written in anapestic tetrameter, Bartholomew and the Oobleck is a prose work, like its predecessor. The book is a sequel of sorts to The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins. It follows the adventures of a young boy named Bartholomew Cubbins, who must rescue his kingdom from a sticky green substance called oobleck. Bartholomew and the Oobleck is a 1949 book by Dr.
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