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Honoring the Great Dr. Seuss

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Ted Geisel A Few Fun Facts

• Born on March 2, 1904 in Springfield
  Massachusetts
• Pulitzer prize winning author
• Wrote The Cat in the Hat, and How the Grinch
  Stole Christmas

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Why are Stamps Important?
They

• play a big role in honoring our countrys
  heritage
• pay respect to great people
• help send message to everyone in the world
• are important in our everyday lives

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Other Honorable Individuals on the Stamp

• Jackie Robinson 1st African American to play
  baseball
• Harriet Tubman helped 300 slaves

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What is so Special About Dr. Seuss?

• Authored 44 books for children
• Taught lessons with virtues for kids
• Influential
• Creative
• Helped make reading fun

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Books by Dr. Seuss

• And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
• Horton Hatches the Egg
• Horton Hears a Who!
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• The Cat in the Hat

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Did You Know

• Dr. Seuss lived to be 87?
• It would be his 100th birthday?
• He got his name from a pen?
• Considered most influential of all time

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Features of the Future Stamp

• Picture of Ted Geisel from 1987
• Six different characters from his books the Cat
  in the Hat, the Grinch, Glotz, Skritz, the
  anonymous young fellow, and the Skrink

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Issuing of Dr. Seuss Stamp

• When March 2, 2004
• Where La Jolla, California
• Celebration name Seussentennial A Century of
  Imagination
• Seusss 100th birthday

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Theodor Seuss Geisel

• Died on September 24, 1991
• Last Book published Oh, the Places Youll Go!
• One of the Most Influential Writers of All Time
• Stamp Commemorates his Life