“Every reader of ‘The Cat in the Hat’ will feel that the story revolves around a piece of withheld information: what private demons or desires compelled this mother to leave two young children at home all day, with the front door unlocked, under the supervision of a fish?”
Louis Menand, “Cat People” in The New Yorker (2002). Today is Theodor Geisel’s — aka Dr. Seuss — 106th birthday. Menand has a nice profile of the writer. Seuss was Geisel’s mother’s maiden name.