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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcelligots_pool_3.png]]
2	->''"There might be no fish...\
3	...But, again, well, there might!\
4	'Cause you never can tell\
5	What goes on down below!\
6	This pool might be bigger\
7	Than you or I know!"''
8	-->-- '''Marco'''
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10	''[=McElligot=]'s Pool'' is a 1947 picture book by Creator/DrSeuss.
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12	A farmer laughs at Marco's attempt to catch fish in small, messy [=McElligot=]'s Pool, but the boy's imagination and hopefulness refuse to be squelched.
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14	!!This book contains examples of the following tropes:
15	* BizarreAlienLocomotion: Some of the fish Marco imagines have bizarre ways of getting from place to place. There are fish with built-in sails or propellers. One fish can ski down underwater slopes. There are even Tibetan fish who jump off steep waterfalls and parachute down to the river below.
16	* BookEnds: The book begins and ends with the farmer and Marco sitting by [=McElligot=]'s pool, but the farmer's attitude changes from smug to wondering from the opening to the closing.
17	* FishingForSole: The farmer tells Marco he won't catch any fish in the pool, but he might catch people's garbage, given how many people throw things in there.
18	* AHeadAtEachEnd: Marco imagines a long eel with a head at each end.
19	* ImagineSpot: Almost the whole book is Marco daydreaming about the wondrous fish he could catch.
20	* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Many of the fish are basically mermaids, but with the upper bodies of non-human animals.
21	* {{Pun}}: A couple of the fish are punnily named.
22	** The boy dreams about a dogfish (a fish with the head of a dog) chasing a school of catfish (a school of fish with the head of cats) to [=McElligot=]'s Pool.
23	** He also suggests he might land a sea horse (a fish with the head of a horse).

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