The watching Cat in the Hat tells the tale of 'Daisy-Head Mazie' who suddenly sprouts a daisy out of the top of her head.

Maizie's teacher Miss Sneetcher, thinks Maizie's classmates are playing a trick on her but her classmates' taunts make her think that it is perhaps not so. She rushes off to the school Principal, Mr Gregory Grumm, and between them they decide that it is a genuine daisy.

They try their best to sort the problem out but without success so they call a doctor, Dr Eisenbart, and a florist, Finch, but before they arrive Maizie runs away when a swarm of bees are attracted to her daisy. Officer Thatcher sorts that little problem out by which time Maizie's mother, Mrs McGrew, is so upset that she doesn't know what to do.

Then at a meeting hosted by the Mayor in order to try to resolve the problem, a wheeler and dealer, Finagle the Agent, signs Maizie on to be an attraction. Daisy-Head fever suddenly hits the nation as fame knocks on Maizie's door!

But Maizie has lost all her friends and she begins to think, 'What is money without friends' and she finds she has nowhere to go and nowhere to stay. But the Cat in the Hat steps in, the daisy goes away and Maizie gets back to her studies and her friends. But does the daisy still make occasional appearances …?

'Daisy-Head Mayzie' is the usual unique combination of zany pictures and riotous rhymes and it
is vintage Seuss.

A super quick read but a very cute story. The Epilogue after the book was interesting as well.

Cute book

It was fun, my daughter liked it, and the message she seemed to take away is that, yes, I would love her even if she had a daisy growing out of her head. Or even if she didn't. All true.

One of the last stories of the Legend Dr Seuss before his death left it to be finished by his daughter Audrey. Mayzie is a young school girl with a fertile mind...fertile enough to grow a daisy from her scalp. Such miracles of freakism could only happen in the Seussiverse, or in Ripleys Believe it or Not. Soon the bees aren't the only ones who notice the flower with a flower growing out her head. Everyone else does, and soon Daisy Head Mayzie is the talk of the free world, on TV and movies, and you can imagine actor Peter Strauss might need her for his Miracle-Gro commercial! But will fame and fortune force Mayzie into seclusion thinking she will be unloved by anyone? (Kinda like what a certain Lindsay is going thru today) It's the final story to grow from the fertile soil that was and is the imagination of the master, Theodore Seuss Geisel, a final flower gift to all of us.
Four stars
Mayzie Force be with you always!

This book can be used to teach a lesson on plants and the difference circumstances they grow in. This can also be used as a model when having students construct their own outlandish tale, showing that silly things can happen but they always end well. This also shows that Mayzie was very cared for, and this can help reiterate to your students that they are loved.

This book was published many years after my own personal childhood, so this was another Dr. Suess book I had never read before reading it aloud to my daughter. The story was a bit weird, though the "sacrifice" of the daisy towards the end was a bit sweet I thought. Because love is what it is all about.

This book shows insight to the schooling system in America. Kids are being judged. It is so good that Mayzie found happiness in embracing her flower.

This book was published posthumously based on sketches and notes by Dr Seuss. Hanna-Barbera picked this up for a TV program and developed a script for it. At the back of this edition, there is a comparison of the artwork and plot line of the two scripts. This one goes back to Dr. Seuss illustrations, color palette, and verses.

When Daisy Head Mayzie grows a daisy out of her head, it causes quite a ruckus until Mayzie can figure out how to get rid of it.

A story about a little girl who has a flower growing out of her head and how they try to solve the problem.

I actually have a soft spot for this book because I did a whole middle school project using Daisy as a launch off charater.