was started during a fishing trip when Geisel was a boy. His father had bought large trout from Deegel hatchery and pretended that they had caught them. Reception McElligot's Pool, Geisel's first book in seven years, was published by Random House in 1947 and was well received. It became a Junior Literary Guild selection and garnered Geisel his first Caldecott Honor. The review in the Saturday Review of Literature stated: "Children will have nothing but admiration for this boy who heard there were no fish in McElligot's Pool and then saw them swimming in from the sea". M.B. King of the Chicago Sun emphasized the book's humor: "This time prepare to chuckle under water for you'll be meeting the weirdest, wildest, funniest creatures of the sea which imagination can conjur". S.J. Johnson of Library Journal called the book "as divinely idiotic" as Dr. Seuss' earlier title And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. American trade editions of the book were printed in 1947, 1974, 1975, and 1992, and a library edition was printed in 1999. Withdrawal from publication On March 2, 2021, Dr. Seuss Enterprises withdrew McElligot's Pool and five other books from publication because they "portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong". Dr. Seuss Enterprises did not specify which illustrations were offensive. The book uses the word "Eskimo" in one instance, as an adjective describing a type of imagined fish that might swim from the North Pole to McElligot's Pool. The term "Eskimo" could be considered old-fashioned in American English, and has been deemed by some as offensive in Canadian English. There is an accompanying illustration depicting the fantastical group of "Eskimo Fish" in hooded fur parkas. After the books were removed, nine of the top ten, including the top four, books on Amazon's charts in the United States were Dr. Seuss books, though none were the books removed. eBay also delisted the title for "offensive content". References Sources See also One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish 1947 children's books American picture books Books by Dr. Seuss Caldecott Honor-winning works Random House books Sequel books Works about fishing Race-related controversies in literature Stereotypes of Inuit people