Forgotten manuscripts keep popping up out of nowhere. Just after the controversial and expertly–reported news about Harper Lee’s forthcoming novel Go Set a Watchman, Random House announced they will be publishing what appear to be actually-new books by the late Theodor Geisel, known to millions of readers as the beloved author Dr. Seuss.

The first book, What Pet Should I Get?, will go on sale July 28 and will be followed by at least two more original works culled from a box of text and sketches that the author’s widow, Audrey Geisel, set aside when she was renovating her La Jolla home shortly after her husband’s death in 1991. Nearly 25 years later, Geisel and the author’s longtime secretary and friend Claudia Prescott rediscovered the box and found the nearly complete manuscript, along with other unpublished material.

What Pet Should I Get? features a brother and sister (the same children from One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish) on a quest to find the newest member of their family. Random House’s Cathy Goldsmith says it appears to have been written between 1958 and 1962. “I know he is looking down, watching over the process, and I feel a tremendous responsibility to do everything just as he would have done himself,” she elaborates.

It’s tempting to raise one’s eyebrows at this when there are plans for three books to be published on the basis of one incomplete manuscript + bonus materials. Theodor Geisel was a notorious perfectionist who both resisted the merchandising of his characters and “zealously guarded the quality of his images, worrying over inks and paper.” Best case scenario, benefit-of-the-doubt all around, the plans for new, posthumously books feel like a misplaced exercise in nostalgia.