{{Short description|1984 children's book by William Steig}} {{Other uses|CDC (disambiguation)}} {{more citations needed|date=July 2015}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2022}} {{Infobox book | italic title = <!--(see above)--> | name = CDC? | image = Cdcxslr810.jpg | image_size = | border = | alt = | caption = Book cover | author = William Steig | audio_read_by = | title_orig = | title_working = | illustrator = William Steig | cover_artist = William Steig | country = United States | language = English | series = | release_number = | subject = | genre = Children's book | set_in = | publisher = Farrar, Straus and Giroux | publisher2 = | pub_date = 1984 | published = | media_type = Print | pages = | awards = | isbn = | isbn_note = | oclc = | dewey = | congress = | preceded_by = CDB! | followed_by = <!-- for books in a series --> | native_wikisource = | wikisource = | notes = | exclude_cover = | website = }}
'''''CDC?''''' is a children's puzzle book written and illustrated by author and cartoonist William Steig. Originally published in 1984, it is a sequel to his 1968 picture book ''CDB!'' and is of the same concept: letters and numbers that suggest the sounds of words or phrases are printed as captions for interpretive cartoons. The reader guesses what the letters and numbers are supposed to represent in actual words: the book's title, for example, represents the question "See the sea?"
==About the book== The book is somewhat more sophisticated in content than ''CDB!'', using more complicated phrases. According to Steig's obituary in ''The New York Times'', even some adults found the captions challenging.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Boxer |first1=Sarah |title=William Steig, 95, Dies; Tough Youths and Jealous Satyrs Scowled in His Cartoons |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/nyregion/william-steig-95-dies-tough-youths-and-jealous-satyrs-scowled-in-his-cartoons.html |accessdate=May 11, 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=October 5, 2003}}</ref>
The book, in its 1984 release, was originally printed in black-and-white and was republished and re-released with pen-and-ink watercolor-style pictures and an answer key at the end. To figure out the word puzzles, the reader needs to read the letters, numbers, and symbols aloud, pronouncing their names, not sounding them out. The picture accompanying each puzzle helps give the reader hints about the coded phrase.<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/C-D-Sunburst-Book/dp/0374410240 Amazon.com], Amazon</ref><ref>[http://media.families.com/blog/c-d-b-and-c-d-c-william-steig Media.Families.com]</ref>
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