Dr. Seuss

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Dr. Seuss
100 people were surveyed. The top 6 answers are
listed on the board.
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What is your favorite Dr. Seuss book?
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Green Eggs and Ham (41)
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One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish (9)
The Cat in the Hat (26)
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The Lorax (5)
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas (10)
Dr. Seusss ABC Book (4)
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Theodor Seuss Geisel AKA Dr. Seuss
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Growing Up

• Born on March 2, 1904
• Springfield, Massachusetts

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• Father ran the local zoo

• Mother was his biggest fan

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College Years
Attended Dartmouth University
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Becoming Dr. Seuss
Ted, you must resign from all extra curricular
activities.
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Early Career
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His First Book And To Think That I Saw It On
Mulberry Street
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The Cat in The Hat
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My book, The Cat in the Hat came about as a
result of a challenge. In May of 1954 Life
magazine published an article that criticized the
books being used to teach children how to read.
He claimed they were boring and didnt inspire
kids to want to read any more than they had to.
This article led to a challenge by
Houghton Mifflins educational director. He
challenged Dr. Seuss to write a story that
first-graders cant put downbut there was a
catch. The book needed to be limited to the
couple hundred words that were selected from a
first grade vocabulary list. Dr. Seuss
took the challenge. He ended up writing a book
with 236 words. The book took him 9 months. He
struggled to come up with an idea for a book
using such basic words while still keeping it
interesting. As he began to plan the
story, his original idea was about a king and
queen cat, but queen was not on the list of
words. He claims that he only ended up writing
The Cat in the Hat because cat and hat were the
first two words on the list that rhymed!
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More About Seusss Books
Green Eggs and Ham
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A Man of Many Names

• Theodor (Ted) Geisel
• Dr. Seuss
• Theo LeSieg
• Rosetta Stone

Books by Theo LeSieg
Book by Rosetta Stone
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Awards and Honors

• Academy awards Best Documentary Feature
  (Design for Death), Short Documentary (Hitler
  Lives), Cartoon Short Film (Gerald
  McBoing-Boing, 1951)
• Caldecott Honor Medals McElligots Pool (1948),
  Bartholomew and the Oobleck (1950), If I Ran the
  Zoo (1951)
• Emmy awards 1977 for Best Childrens Special
  for Halloween is Grinch Night, 1982 for Best
  Childrens Special for The Grinch Grinches the
  Cat in the
• Peabody award For the animated specials How the
  Grinch Stole Christmas! and Horton Hears a Who in
  1971
• The Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal If I Ran the Zoo
  (1980)
• Pulitzer Prize Lifetime of Contribution to
  Childrens Literature in 1984 (the greatest
  honor received in his lifetime)
• A Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 2004
• Legion of Merit For his military training videos
  during World War II, Why We Fight series

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• Died at the age of 87 in 1991
• Total of 70 books credited to Theodor Geisel and
  his various pennames

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MGRP Show and Tell Chapter 1 Dr. Seusss
Childhood and Family Chapter 2 Becoming Seuss
and the Struggle to Get
Published Chapter 3 Seusss Success Chapter 4
Lists, Lists, Lists! Chapter 5 Overview
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