Her best-known books include Do You Know What I'm Going to Do Next Saturday?, I Was Kissed by a Seal at the Zoo, Why I Built the Boogle House, and A Fish Out of Water.

Helen Palmer was born in New York City in 1898 and spent her childhood in Bedford–Stuyvesant, a prosperous Brooklyn neighborhood.

[1] She then spent three years teaching English at Girls High School in Brooklyn before moving with her mother to England to attend Oxford University.

The two shared the writing credit on Design for Death, which won the 1947 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

[9] Palmer contributed four of her own books to the imprint: A Fish Out of Water, I Was Kissed by A Seal at the Zoo, Do You Know What I'm Going to Do Next Saturday?, and Why I Built the Boogle House.

Palmer died by suicide with an overdose of barbiturates on October 23, 1967,[10] after a series of illnesses spanning 13 years.

Sometimes think of the fun we had all thru the years ...[11]Eight months later, in August 1968, Seuss married Audrey Dimond, with whom he had been having an affair.

She also expanded the Dr. Seuss short story "Gustav the Goldfish," originally published in Redbook, into the book A Fish Out of Water (1961), which was illustrated by P. D.