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Book List and Characters

Here is a list of Seuss's books, with a numbered index to the names of characters and unusual creatures found within them. Six of the books were not indexed; others contained no pertinent characters or creatures to index. THE TOUGH COUGHS AS HE PLOWS THE DOUGH is a collection of Seuss's work in advertising and political cartoons, and as such also is not indexed.

BOOKS:
1 -- And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street (1938)
2 -- Bartholomew and the Oobleck (1959)
3 -- The Butter Battle Book (1984)
4 -- The Cat in the Hat (1957)
5 -- The Cat in the Hat Beginner Book (1966)
6 -- The Cat in the Hat Comes Back (1968)
7 -- The Cat in the Hat Song Book (1967)
8 -- The Cat's Quizzer (1976) [not indexed]
9 -- Come Over To My House (1966)
10 -- Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? (1973) [not indexed]
11 -- Dr. Seuss's ABC (1963)
12 -- Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book (1962)
13 -- The Eye Book (1968)
14 -- The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (1938)
15 -- The Foot Book (1968)
16 -- Fox in Socks (1965)
17 -- Great Day For Up! (1974)
18 -- Green Eggs and Ham (1960)
19 -- Happy Birthday to You! (1959)
20 -- Hop on Pop (1963)
21 -- Horton Hatches The Egg (1940)
22 -- Horton Hears A Who (1954)
23 -- How The Grinch Stole Christmas (1957)
24 -- Hunches in Bunches (1982)
25 -- I Am Not Going To Get Up Today! (1987)
26 -- I Can Draw Myself (1970) [not indexed]
27 -- I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today (1969)
27a -- King Looie Katz
27b -- The Glunk That Got Thunk
28 -- I Can Read With My Eyes Shut (1978)
29 -- I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew (1965)
30 -- If I Ran The Circus (1956)
31 -- If I Ran The Zoo (1950)
32 -- I Wish I Had Duck Feet (1965) [not indexed]
33 -- The King's Stilts (1939)
34 -- The Lorax (1971)
35 -- Marvin K. Mooney, Will You Please Go Now! (1972)
36 -- McElligot's Pool (1947)
37 -- Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? (1970)
38 -- My Book About Me, By Me Myself (1969)
39 -- Oh Say Can You Say (1979)
40 -- Oh, The Places You'll Go! (1990) [not indexed]
41 -- Oh, The Thinks You Can Think! (1975)
42 -- On Beyond Zebra (1955)
43 -- One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish (1960)
44 -- Scrambled Eggs Super! (1954)
45 -- The Seven Lady Godivas (1939)
46 -- Shape of Me and Other Stuff (1973)
47 -- The Sneetches and Other Stories (1961)
47a -- The Zax
47b -- Too Many Daves
47c -- What Was I Scared Of?
48 -- Ten Apples Up On Top (1961) [not indexed]
49 -- There's a Wocket In My Pocket (1974)
50 -- Thidwick, The Big-Hearted Moose (1948)
51 -- The Tooth Book (1981)
52 -- The Tough Coughs as He Ploughs The Dough (1987) [not indexed]
53 -- Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories (1958)
53a-- Gertrude McFuzz
53b -- The Big Brag
54 -- You're Only Old Once! (1986)

CHARACTERS AND CREATURES:
Aaron, an alligator: 5
Abigail: 5
Aldermen: 1
Alice, a Hooded Klopfer: 19
Aunt Ada: 5
Aunt Annie: 11
Australian fish: 36
Beagle-Beaked-Bald-Headed Grinch: 44
Beft: 41
Bell ringer: 2
Bellar: 49
Ben: 16
Better Hunch: 24
Bicklebaum, Benjamin B.: 7
Biffer-Baum Birds: 12
Billings, Billy: 51
Bim: 16
Bingle Bug: 50
Bippo-No-Bungus: 31
Birthday Honk-Honker: 19
Blindfolded Bowman from Brigger-ba-Root: 30
Blinn, Pinner: 39
Blogg: 46
Bloogs: 41
Bofa: 49
Bolster: 30
Bombastic Aghast: 44
Briggs, Pete: 39
Brown Bar-ba-loots: 34
Brutus, a horse: 45
Bumble-Tub Club: 12
Captain of the Guards: 2, 14
Cat in the Hat: 4, 6
Catfish: 36
Chief Yookeroo: 3
Chief-in-charge-of-fish: 33
Chippendale Mupp: 12
Chuggs: 31
Circus Fish: 36
Clark: 43
Clover, a horse: 45
Collapsible Frink: 12
Cooper, Soapy: 39
Cubbins, Bartholomew: 2, 14
Curious Crandalls: 12
Dad: 1, 20
Dake: 53a
Daniel, the Kick-a-Poo Spaniel: 3
Dapples, a horse: 45
Dawf: 44
Dellar: 49
Dinn: 39
Diver Getz: 19
Diver Gitz: 19
Dog Fish: 36
Doo, David Donald: 11
Down Hunch: 24
Dr. Ballew: 54
Dr. Blinn: 54
Dr. Derring's Singing Herrings: 19
Dr. Diller: 54
Dr. Drew: 54
Dr. Fitzgerald: 54
Dr. Fitzpatrick: 54
Dr. Fitzsimmons: 54
Dr. Fonz: 54
Dr. Ginns: 54
Dr. McGrew: 54
Dr. McGuire: 54
Dr. McPherson: 54
Dr. Pollen: 54
Dr. Schmidt: 54
Dr. Sinatra: 54
Dr. Smoot: 54
Dr. Spreckles: 54
Dr. Sylvester: 54
Dr. Timpkins: 54
Dr. Tompkins: 54
Dr. Van Ness: 54
Dr. Von Eiffel: 54
Drew, Donald Driscoll: 51
Drum-tummied Snumm: 30
Dutter and Dutter, cake cutters: 19
East Beast: 39
Ed: 20
Eric: 33
Eskimo Fish: 36
Executioner: 14
Farmer: 36
Father of Nadd: 14
Father of the Father of Nadd: 14
Fibbel: 30
Fiffer-feffer-feff: 11
Findow: 49
Finney: 39
Fish: 4
Fizza-ma-wizza-ma-dill: 31
Flannel-Wing Jay: 44
Floob-Boober-Bab-Boober-Bubs: 42
Flummox: 30
Flunnel: 42
Flustard: 31
Foo-Foo the Snoo: 28
Foon: 30
Foona-Lagoona Baboona: 12
Four-Way Hunch: 24
Fox: 16
Fred: 39
Fritz: 39
Fuddnudler Brothers (Bipper, Bud, Skipper, Jipper, Jeffrey, Jud, Horatio,
Horace, Hendrix, Hud, Dinwoodie, Dinty, Dud, Fitzsimmon, Frederick,
Fud, Slinky, Stinkey, Stuart, Stud, Lud): 39
Funicular Goats: 19
Futzenfall, Fredric: 7
Gack: 43
Gasket: 31
Geeling 49
Gellar: 49
George: 46
Ghair: 49
Gherkin: 31
Glikker: 42
Glotz: 39
Glunk, The: 27b
Godiva, Arabella: 45
Godiva, Gussie: 45
Godiva, Hedwig: 45
Godiva, Lulu: 45
Godiva, Mitzi: 45
Godiva, Teenie: 45
Goo-Goose: 16
Gootch: 31
Gox: 43
Grand Duke Wilfred: 14
Grandpa: 3
Great Birthday Bird: 19
Grice: 44
Grickily Gractus: 44
Grinch: 23
Grizzly-Ghastly: 30
Grox: 39
Guff: 41
Gusset: 31
Ham-ikka-Schnim-ikka-Schnam-ikka-Schnopp: 44
Happy Hunch: 24
Harp-Twanging Snarp: 30
Herk-Heimer Sisters: 12
Herman, a squirrel: 60
High Gargel-orum: 42
Hilda Hen: 61
Hinkle-Horn Honkers: 12
Hippo-Heimers: 19
Homework Hunch: 24
Hoodwink: 30
Hooey, a parrot: 39
Hooper, Peter T.: 44
Hopp-Soup-Snoop Group: 12
Horton The Elephant: 21, 22
Huffle: 30
Humming-Fish: 34
Humpf-Humpf-a-Dumpfer: 42
Ichabod: 11
Iota: 31
Ish: 43
It-Kutch: 31
Itch-a-pods: 42
Jake the Pillow Snake: 28
Jedd: 12
Jeronimo: 6
Jertain: 49
Jibboo: 41
Jill-ikka-Jast: 44
Jim: 20
Jimbo Jones, jellyfish: 51
Jo-Jo: 22
Josts: 31
Joe: 43
Jogg-oons: 42
Jordan, Jerry: 11
Juggling Jott: 30
Katz, Blooie: 27a
Katz, Chooie: 27a
Katz, Fooie: 27a
Katz, Kooie: 27a
Katz, Looie, King of Katzen-Stein: 27a
Katz, Prooie: 27a
Katzen-bein, Zooie: 27a
King Birtram: 33
King Derwin of Didd: 2, 14
King's Magicians: 2, 14
Klopps, Katy: 51
Klotz: 39
Knox, Mr. and Mrs. J. Carmichael: 12
Knox, Nixie: 11
Knox: 16
Krauss, Kitty O'Sullivan: 41
Kweet: 44
Kwigger: 44
Lass-a-Jack: 44
Little Cats A-Z: 6
Liz: 44
Lolla-Lee-Lou: 63a
Long-Legger Kwong 44
Lopp, Little Lola: 11
Lorax: 34
Lord Droon: 33
Lord Godiva: 45
Luck, Luke: 16
Lunks: 31
Lurch: 30
Mack the Turtle: 63
Marco: 1
Marco: 36
Max, the dog: 23
Mayor of Who-Ville: 22
Mayor: 1
Mayzie Bird: 21
McBean, Sylvester McMonkey: 47
McCave, Dave (all 23 of them): 47b
McCobb, Mike: 61
McFuzz, Gertrude: 53a
McGrew, Gerald: 31
McGurk, Morris: 30
McPhail, Snorter and His Snore-a-Snort Band: 12
Mike: 43
Miss Becker: 54
Miss Fuddle-dee-Duddle: 42
Mooney, Marvin K: 35
Mop-Noodled Finch: 44
Moth-Watching Sneth: 44
Mr. Brown: 20, 37
Mr. Glotz: 61
Mr. Gump: 43
Mr. Sneelock: 30
Mrs. Brown: 20
Mrs. Kangaroo and child: 22
Mrs. McCave: 47b
Mrs. Umbroso: 36
Mt. Strookoo Cuckoo: 44
Mulligatawny: 31
Munch Hunch: 24
Nadd: 14
Natch: 31
Nathan, a war horse: 45
Nazzim of Bazzim: 42
Ned: 20, 43
Nellar: 49
Nerd: 31
Nerkle: 31
Nink: 49
Nizzards, black birds: 33
Nolster: 30
Nook Gase: 49
Nook: 43
Nooth Grush: 49
North-Going Zax: 47a
Norval: 64
Nupboard: 49
Nureau: 49
Nutch: 42
O'Dell, Conrad Cornelius O'Donald: 42
Obsk: 31
Ogler: 64
Once-ler, The: 34
Pam the clam: 51
Papa: 11
Parsifal, a horse: 45
Pat: 20
Patrol Cats: 33
Peeping Dick: 45
Peeping Drexel: 45
Peeping Frelinghuysen: 45
Peeping Harry: 45
Peeping Jack: 45
Peeping Tom: 45
Pelf: 44
Peter The Postman: 41
Plain-Belly Sneetches: 47
Pop: 20
Preep: 31
Proo: 31
Pup: 20
Quandary: 42
Queek, Quincy: 51
Queen of Quincy: 11
Quilligan quail: 29
Quimney: 49
Quiz-Docs: 54
Real Tough Hunch: 24
Red: 20
Red-Zoff, Jo: 12
Red-Zoff, Mo: 12
Right-Side-Up Song Girls: 3
Rink-Rinker-Fink: 41
Rolf the Walrus: 30
Ross, Rosy Robin: 11
Royal Coachman: 14
Royal Cook: 2
Royal Fiddlers: 2
Royal Laundress: 2
Royal Trumpeter: 2
Ruffle-Necked Sala-ma-goox: 44
Russian Palooski: 31
Ruthie: 51
Sally: 4, 6
Sam I Am: 18
Santa Claus: 6
Schmitz, Gen. Genghis Khan: 29
Schanck: 39
Sea Horse: 36
Seersucker: 31
Sgt. Mulvaney: 1
Shade-Roosting Quail: 44
Simon Sneath, the snail: 51
Single-File Zummzian Zuks: 44
Sir Alaric, keeper of the King's Records: 14
Sir Beers: 30
Sir Bopps: 30
Sir Dawkins: 30
Sir Hawkins: 30
Sir Hector: 30
Sir Jawks: 30
Sir Jeers: 30
Sir Snipps: 14
Sir Vector: 30
Sister: 27b
Skipper Zipp: 39
Skrink: 29
Skritz: 29
Slick, Silly Sammy: 9
Slow Joe Crow: 16
Smiling Sam, the crocodile: 51
Sneedle: 42
Sneetches: 47
Snell, Dr. Sam: 29
Snuvs: 41
Soobrian Snipe: 30
Sour Hunch: 24
South-Going Zax: 47a
South-West-Facing Cranes: 44
Spazzim: 42
Spookish Hunch: 24
Sporn, Sally Spingel Spungel: 7
Spotted Atrocious: 30
Spritz: 44
Star-Belly Sneetches: 47
Stroodel: 44
Sue: 16
Super Hunch: 24
Swomee-Swans: 34
Ted: 20
Tellar: 49
Thidwick, a horse: 45
Thidwick the Moose: 50
Thing One: 4
Thing Two: 4
Thing: 20
Thing-a-ma-Jigger: 36
Thnadners: 42
Through-horns-jumping Deer: 30
Thwerll: 31
Tick-tack-toe: 31
Time-Telling Fish: 19
Tizzle-Topped Grouse: 44
Tizzy: 44
To-an-Fro Marchers: 30
Tree-Spider: 50
Truffle: 30
Tufted Mazurka: 31
Twiddler Owl: 44
Umbus: 42
Uncle Terwilliger: 7
Uncle Ubb: 9
Up Hunch: 24
VanItch: 3
Van Vleck: 12
Very Odd Hunch: 24
Vinn, Vera Violet: 9
Vipper of Vipp: 41
Vlad-i-koff, Vlad, a black-bottom eagle: 22
Von Crandall: 64
von Schwinn, Gretchen: 39
Vrooms: 42
Vug: 49
Wasket: 49
Waterloo, Willy: 9
Wellar: 49
West Beast: 39
Whelden the Wheeler: 54
Who, Little Cindy-Lou: 23
Who-Bubs: 19
Wickersham Brothers: 22
Wiggins, Warren: 9
Wilberforce, Waldo: 7
Will: 20
Wily Walloo: 30
Wocket: 49
Wogs: 44
Woo, Waldo: 9
Woset: 49
Wumbus: 42
Wump: 43
Yekko: 42
Yeoman of the Bowmen: 14
Yeps: 49
Yertle the Turtle: 63
Ying: 43
Yink: 43
Yookie-Ann Sue: 3
Yooks: 3
Yop: 43
Yorgenson, Yolanda: 9
Yot: 49
Yottle: 49
Yuzz-a-ma-Tuzz: 42
Zable: 49
Zall: 49
Zamp: 49
Zans: 43
Zatz-it: 42
Zax: 47a
Zeds: 43
Zeep: 43
Zelf: 49
Zellar: 49
Ziff: 44
Zillow: 49
Zinn-a-Zu Bird: 50
Zizzer-zazzer-zuzz: 9
Zlock: 49
Zong: 41
Zooks: 3
Zoop-a-Zoop Troupe: 30
Zower: 49
Zuff: 44
Zummers: 19