Dr Suess

The fantastical "Dr Suess" book series are children's books
that have captured the hearts of young people everywhere.
Often these books feature fanciful imaginary creatures,
children, and anthropomorphic animals. And in every book
there are fun rhymes, interesting stories and grand
adventures.

The writer of the Dr Suess books lived from 1904 to 1991 and
was named Theodor Seuss Geisel. He was a cartoonist and
writer who published over sixty children books. Many of his
books used trisyllabic meter and rhyme and are readable even
by beginning readers, yet entertaining for parents to read
as well. Some of his most notable works are "Green Eggs and
Ham", "The Cat in the Hat", "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue
Fish", "Fox In Socks", "Horton Hears a Who" and "How the
Grinch Stole Christmas".

While writing books for children, Geisel worked as an
illustrator for advertising campaigns like Flit and Standard
Oil and a political cartoonist for a New York City
newspaper. He also worked in the animation department in the
U.S. Army during World War II.

Unlike other children story authors, Dr Seuss didn't like to
start out his books with morals. He is known for saying that
"a child can see a moral coming from a mile off" and
preferred to write about issues that were going on during
the time, stating that every story has an inherent moral.
Hence, his story "Yurtle the Turtle" is about the arms race
and "The Butter Battle Book" is about racial equality. There
are many more books that center on an issue rather than a
specific moral.

Here is a list of books that he wrote and the year they were
published:

- And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (1937)
- The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (1938)
- The King's Stilts (1939)
- The Seven Lady Godivas (1940)
- Horton Hatches the Egg (1940)
- McElligot's Pool (Caldecott Honor Book, 1947)
- Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose (1948)
- Bartholomew and the Oobleck (Caldecott Honor Book, 1949)
- If I Ran the Zoo (Caldecott Honor Book, 1950)
- Scrambled Eggs Super! (1953)
- Horton Hears a Who! (1954)
- On Beyond Zebra! (1955)
- If I Ran the Circus (1956)
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957)
- The Cat in the Hat (1957)
- The Cat in the Hat Comes Back (1958)
- Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories (1958)
- Happy Birthday to You! (1959)
- Green Eggs and Ham (1960)
- One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (1960)
- The Sneetches and Other Stories (1961)
- Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book (1962)
- Dr. Seuss's ABC (1963)
- Hop on Pop (1963)
- Fox in Socks (1965)
- I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew (1965)
- The Cat in the Hat Song Book (1967)
- The Foot Book (1968)
- I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories (1969)
- My Book about ME (Illustrated by Roy McKie, 1970)
- I Can Draw It Myself (1970)
- Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?: Dr. Seuss's Book
of Wonderful Noises! (1970)
- The Lorax (1971)
- Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! (1972)
- Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? (1973)
- The Shape of Me and Other Stuff (1973)
- There's a Wocket in My Pocket! (1974)
- Great Day for Up! (Illustrated by Quentin Blake, 1974)
- Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! (1975)
- The Cat's Quizzer (1976)
- I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! (1978)
- Oh Say Can You Say? (1979)
- Hunches in Bunches (1982)
- The Butter Battle Book (1984)
- You're Only Old Once! : A Book for Obsolete Children (1986)
- I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! (Illustrated by James Stevenson, 1987)
- Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990)
- Daisy-Head Mayzie (Posthumous, 1995)
- My Many Colored Days (Posthumous, illustrated by
Steve Johnson with Lou Fancher, 1996)
- Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! (Posthumous, from notes,
with Jack Prelutsky and Lane Smith, 1998)
- Gerald McBoing-Boing (Posthumous, based on story and film, 2000)

Dr Seuss also wrote under different pen names including Theo
LeSieg and Rosetta Stone. His books have been translated
into fifteen languages and have sold over two hundred
twenty-two million copies.

Many of his books were eventually turned into stage plays,
television series and movies. Numerous adaptations have been
made from his books including eleven TV specials, a Broadway
musical and three feature films. He also wrote a film that
won the 1947 Academy Award for Documentary Feature for
Design for Death.

Dr Seuss won the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation Award in
1984 "for his contribution over nearly half a century to the
education and enjoyment of America's children and their
parents." One of the judges recalled that it was one of the
fastest decisions ever made for this prize.

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