Bartholomew and the Oobleck

In this Caldecott Honor-winning picture book, join Bartholomew Cubbins in Dr. Seuss's classic tale of one king's magical mishap. Bored with rain, sun, fog, and snow, King Derwin of Didd summons his royal magicians to create something new and exciting to fall from the sky. What he gets is a storm of sticky green globs called Oobleck, which soon causes a royal mess. But with the assistance of the wise page boy Bartholomew, the king (along with young readers) learns that the simplest words can sometimes solve the biggest problems.
A near fine first edition (dark blue cloth) in a very good blue dust jacket (chipping on top and bottom margins). With illustrated endpapers. This is the Random House/Junior Literary Guild edition. This came out of a light-proof drawer in a non-smoking house, where it had been kept for decades.
 
This early Seuss tale of sticky precipitation teaches the importance of saying you're sorry -- winner of a 1950 Caldecott Honor. BARTHOLOMEW AND THE OOBLECK sees the return of the titular hero of THE 500 HATS OF BARTHOLOMEW CUBBINS, this time tasked with saving the kingdom from a sticky green substance. Original color pictorial boards. Original color pictorial dust jacket. Green and black pictorial endpapers of oobleck falling on heads. Illustrated in green and black.
 
Buy this book and then also buy some corn starch. In addition to reading the book, your child can make their own Oobleck with corn starch, food coloring and water! It's a great activity that you will both love!
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The first printing book has blue boards. Later printings were changed to red boards.
Availability: Blue boards books are difficult to find.
Dr. Seuss First Edition Identification
https://1stedition.net/blog/2007/01/bartholomew-and-the-oobleck-1949.html
 Bartholomew and the Oobleck; written and illustrated by Theodor Seuss Geisel; Random House; 1949.
1950 Caldecott Honor Award 
Children’s Picturebook Price Guide Value – $2,200 VG+
Essential First Edition Identifying Points
Blue boards and blue dust jacket. 
Oobleck is similar to Seuss’ Thidwick The Big-Hearted Moose and If I Ran The Circus, in that the book and dust jacket are unique to the first edition.  Later states have orange boards and dust jacket.
 It is difficult to find a first edition dust jacket in VG condition, since the paper stock was so thin on the first state DJ.
 The dust jacket price is $2.00, "200/200" at top right of front flap, however this is not necessary to identify the first state book.
The rear flaps gives a short review of the first six Seuss books.