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How children’s author Dr Seuss became an icon
From And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street! to Oh, the Places You’ll Go! — and all the classics in between — Dr Seuss has used humor to encourage generations of kids to read.
In fact, this author’s impact has been so great that the National Education Association even adopted March 2 — his birthday — as Read Across America Day. So how did his genius get started?
By Alex Lenkei, NEA
Dr Seuss: An American Arts Icon
Seuss, whose real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel, needs no formal introduction: his books are a common sight in homes and schools, and nearly everyone over the age of five is familiar with his classics, which include The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, The Lorax and Horton Hears a Who. His works have been adapted into a Broadway musical, four feature films, and several television specials.
But how did Seuss become the icon he is
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Dr. Seuss FREE Unit Study
Dr. Seuss, born Theodor Seuss Geisel, changed the world of children’s books in the 1950s. Prior to his books, children learned to read with boring, repetitive books. But, Dr. Seuss’s books were full of crazy characters, colorful pictures, imaginative settings and fun rhymes! He quickly became a beloved writer, authoring some of the most popular children’s books in the world.
Many today don’t realize Ted Geisel also wrote political cartoons or that he produced many films for the US Army during World War II. Children of a variety of ages will enjoy learning more about Dr. Seuss with this unit study, discovering an even deeper love for his books!
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Theodor Seuss gisslan, also known as Dr. Seuss, died in 1991, leaving behind boxes and boxes of stuff. Soon after his death, his widow, Audrey, packed most of it and shipped it away for proper archiving. Around 2013, Seuss’ longtime assistant Claudia Prescott called Cathy Goldsmith, a publisher at Random House. She had found something very special – a treasure trove of drawn cartoons on onion paper with typed text, taped precisely into place on each page. The fragile originals were to be the book “What husdjur Should inom Get” bygd Dr. Seuss. The writing and drawings were complete, but still required some art decisions, backgrounds and shading.
“I tried to do the job he would do if he were doing it today,” said Goldsmith. “I also wanted it to be a piece that, when somebody looked at, they would know it is a Dr. Seuss book.” Goldsmith started working on Dr. Seuss books in 1978. She remembers the first time she met the author, a tall, imposing f