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451st hat having two feathers, the 452nd hat having three and the 453rd hat having three feathers and a small gem, and so on. Ultimately the 500th hat is revealed as the greatest, studded with a massive gem, plumes of feathers from rare birds and gilding, although Bartholomew seems unaware of the fact. The king is stunned by the beauty of the hat, but Wilfred is more incensed than before at the sight of it. He tries to push Bartholomew off the tower against the King's wishes. But the King saves Bartholomew's life by spanking Wilfred as a punishment. King Derwin grants Bartholomew a reprieve, requesting all 500 hats, the 500th being, to Bartholomew’s joy, the final hat, in exchange for 500 gold coins. Bartholomew agrees and is sent home with his massive reward, while the King keeps all the hats in a massive chest to admire for years to come. The story ends with a classic concluding sentence: "They could only say it just 'happened to happen' and was not very likely to happen again."
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arrows, a great bowman similarly fails with a longbow, and Wizards attempt to curse the hat away but claim that their spell would only work in "Ten Short Years". The King, exasperated by all the attempts, sends Bartholomew to be executed, but once again the laws get in the way as a person cannot be executed by the Executioner with his or her hat on.
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Wilfred suggests throwing Bartholomew from the highest tower as a punishment. The King, while mildly upset by the idea, agrees. Bartholomew begins pushing his hats off rapidly as they climb the tower. As this continues, the hats begin to grow in extravagance and beauty from the 451st hat onwards, the
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The young boy is taken to the castle, where numerous people attempt to remove the hat from Bartholomew's head, but all attempts end in failure. The royal hatter runs away in terror, the King’s wise men only nibble their beards in awe, the King's young nephew Wilfred fails to shoot the hats off with
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Not long after publication, the story was adapted for an album issued by RCA Victor (Y-339). Narrated by Paul Wing, the audio adaptation had a running time of 13 minutes and 37 seconds. The dramatization featured music and sound effects on two
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as "a brand-new idea, developed into a complete tale, not too long, not too short, just right. Somewhere between the Sunday supplements and the
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reviewer called the book "a lovely bit of tomfoolery which keeps up the suspense and surprise until the end".
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for the stage in its 1979–1980 season, and says this was the first theater adaptation of a Dr. Seuss work.
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is a children's book, written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name
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The characters of Bartholomew and King Derwin returned a decade later in
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For the music video director with the pseudonym Bartholomew Cubbins, see
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Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?: Dr. Seuss's Book of Wonderful Noises!
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in 1938. Unlike the majority of Geisel's books, it is written in
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Rate Your Music: "500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins" album
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humor magazine, wrote in his review of the book in the
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Index

Jared Leto

Dr. Seuss
Children's literature
Vanguard Press
hardcover
OCLC
192190
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
The King's Stilts
Dr. Seuss
Vanguard Press
prose
rhyming
metered verse
New York
New England
Bartholomew and the Oobleck
feudal times
Bartholomew Cubbins
The New York Times
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
Brothers Grimm
Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern
10" 78 rpm records
Puppetoons
Paramount Pictures
George Pal
Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
Children's Theatre Company

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