Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose Resources

Here's the Thidwick district of Seussville, the Dr. Seuss hamlet of the world wide web.

We went looking for a Dr. Seuss biography, but we kept getting hits for this Theodor Geisel guy. Wonder why.

Like the cheese, on this gallery website, the art stands alone.

Thidwick's tale gets the animated treatment as a bonus on this VHS release for Horton Hears a Who.

Thomas Fensch's biography, The Man Who Was Dr. Seuss, has plenty of great information on all things Seuss, and that includes a certain moose-moss loving moose.

Some readers think Thidwick is a political parable warning against socialism. Maybe. Seuss does, after all, have a history of being political.

In Dr. Seuss and Philosophy, Thidwick is discussed alongside property rights, utilitarianism, and Aristotle. Prepare to strain the gray matter on a so-called "children's book."

In case you still aren't thinked out, here's an article by Neil Reynolds discussing Thidwick as an analogy for the modern welfare state.

Mental Floss shares ten stories behind ten Dr. Seuss stories for ten awesome tidbits of knowledge.

A Russian animated version of Thidwick's story, with subtitles in Spanish. It's done in a beautifully painted art style, and its title, Dobro Pozhalovat, means Welcome.

An odd mixture of live-action, animation, and an ensemble cast created In Search of Dr. Seuss, an homage Seuss and his imagination.

Our words have failed us. Here you'll find Thidwick: the Rapsical.

If you wrapped up all the warm feelings of grandma reading to you as a child and put them on YouTube, you'd have this video.

Here's a sampling of the digital version of Thidwick in case you feel like tapping your way through the story.

The book's cover features a certain big-hearted moose. Care to guess who?

Thidwick's first clue that his guests are more likely pests is featured in this illustration.

These realistic renderings of Seuss's famous characters are as impressive as they are haunting. Thidwick stands among their numbers.

A Thidwick fan imposed his interpretation of the book on top of the illustration. For this guy, it's all social commentary.

A Muppet version of Thidwick as featured on Nickelodeon's "The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss."