Politics & Government
This Week Marks the 108th Anniversary of the Birth of Dr. Seuss
Stop by the Brighton District Library to pick up one of your favorite Seuss stories.
"Oh, the places you’ll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won," said Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known to millions of adoring fans as Dr. Seuss. His cleverly woven stories, tongue twisting rhymes and whimsical characters delight children by entertaining, educating and teaching life-lessons.
Born in 1904 and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts. Seuss attended Dartmouth College and become editor-in-chief of Dartmouth’s humor magazine, the Jack-O-Lantern. Upon graduation, he attended Oxford University in England but grew restless with academic life and left to tour Europe.
After returning from Europe, Seuss became a cartoonist for the Saturday Evening Post, worked for Standard Oil creating advertising campaigns and was a contributor to Life, Vanity Fair, Judge and other magazines.
His illustrations won him outstanding reviews giving him his first opportunity into children’s literature. His first book, And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street, was turned down 27 times before being published. His defining break though came with The Cat in the Hat, a children’s primer, which required him to use only 225 “new-reader” vocabulary words. The book became an overnight success establishing Seuss as a premiere children’s author and illustrator.
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When Seuss died on September 24, 1991, he had written and illustrated 44 children's books, including all-time favorites, Green Eggs and Ham, Oh, the Places You'll Go, Fox in Socks, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
Today, his books have been translated into more than 15 languages and have sold more than 200 million copies around the world. Four of his works have been made into major motion pictures: The Cat in the Hat, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Horton Hears a Who! and The Lorax, which opens in theatres this Friday, March 2. Seuss said it best when he said, “Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.”
The has a large selection of Dr. Seuss books. Stop by today to select one of your favorites.
