At the same time, the black and white pages make Marco’s fish descriptions seem realistic.
The color magnifies Marco’s fantasy about all of the fish, making them seem beautiful and real. After page one, every other page is in color. At the beginning of the story when Marco sits by the pond, the black and white emphasizes the concrete reality of the Marco talking to the farmer. 1 With voices by Allan Sherman and prolific vocal performer Daws Butler, this half-hour special is a loose adaptation of the book with added musical sequences. Interestingly, Seuss illustrates every other page in black and white. Seuss children's story of the same name, and produced by DePatieFreleng Enterprises. The pictures complement the text and make the fish descriptions seem real. The text is made up of catchy rhymes and intriguing fish descriptions.
The use of color and illustrations blur the line between fantasy and reality during Marco’s story, creating one of the most interesting aspects of the book. The story ends with Marco still fishing and the farmer scratching his beard and looking confused. As he sits waiting for a bite, a farmer calls him a fool and says “You’ll never catch fish in McElligot’s Pool!” Marco, however, refuses to be discouraged and spends the rest of the story describing all the fish that could be coming to McElligot’s Pool from the ocean. Seuss very first picture-book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, published in 1937, returns in this second adventure, full of all of the make-believe and whimsy that one would expect. In this colorful picture book, a boy named Marco goes fishing in a small pond called McElligot’s Pool.
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