The Cat in the Hat (film) 15, 2012, a computer-animated "The Cat in the Hat" remake was announced by Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment following the success of "The Lorax". On January 24, 2018, Warner Animation Group announced that they have picked up the rights for the animated "Cat in the Hat" reboot movie, along with many of Seuss' works. The film also has a 2.5D platformer video game released by Vivendi Universal Games and developed by Magenta Software and Digital Eclipse. It is based on the film of the same name. The game was released for PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Game Boy Advance on November
The Cat in the Hat most important academic controversy" of the Cold War era. Academic Louis Menand contends that ""The Cat in the Hat" transformed the nature of primary education and the nature of children's books. It not only stood for the idea that reading ought to be taught by phonics; it also stood for the idea that language skills—and many other subjects—ought to be taught through illustrated storybooks, rather than primers and textbooks." In 1983, Geisel told Jonathan Cott, "It is the book I'm proudest of because it had something to do with the death of the "Dick and Jane" primers." The book led