And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, originally titled A Story That No One Can Beat, is the first book by Dr. Seuss, published in 1937 by chance, after Seuss nearly burned the manuscript in defeat following an alleged 27 publishing house rejections, but happened to run into an editor friend, Mike McClintock. It centers on themes of childhood imagination and how whimsical behavior is stifled by adult society, following protagonist Marco as he concocts an elaborate scene out of a horse-drawn cart so he will have something to tell Dad when he gets home from school. __TOC__