:Bartholomew Cubbins

{{about|the fictional character|the pseudonymous director|Jared Leto}}

{{Short description|Literary character made by Dr. Seuss}}

Bartholomew Cubbins is a fictional page, a pleasant boy, and the hero of two children's books by Dr. Seuss: The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (1938) and Bartholomew and the Oobleck (1949). Cubbins also appears in "King Grimalken and the Wishbones", the first of Seuss's so-called "lost stories" that were only published in magazines.{{cite book |last1=Cohen |first1=Charles |title=The Seuss, the Whole Seuss and Nothing But the Seuss: A Visual Biography of Theodor Seuss Geisel |date=24 February 2004 |publisher=Random House Children's Books |isbn=978-0-375-82248-3 |pages=297–298 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2r2YAex_-0EC&pg=PA298 |language=en}} Besides the three printed stories about him—and the stage adaptations of both books—Bartholomew Cubbins also appears as a character in the TV show The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss.{{cn|date=April 2023}} Seuss's only film, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T., has a main character named Bartholomew Collins who is based on Cubbins, and, like his namesake, is a young boy who is wiser than the adults around him.{{cite book |editor-last=Castro |editor-first=Ingrid E. |first=Peter W. Y. |last=Lee |title=Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other Worlds |chapter=A Futile Rage Against the Machine: The Triumph of The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T |date=12 January 2021 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-4985-9430-1 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mRMQEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA44 |page=44 |language=en}}