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Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss’s Life. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts Real name is Theodor Geisel Mother’s name was Seuss Attended Dartmouth College editor-in-chief of the Jack-O-Lantern, Dartmouth’s humor magazine. Then attended Oxford University in England Pursued career as a cartoonist

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Dr. Seuss

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  1. Dr. Seuss

  2. Dr. Seuss’s Life • Born in Springfield, Massachusetts • Real name is Theodor Geisel • Mother’s name was Seuss • Attended Dartmouth College • editor-in-chief of the Jack-O-Lantern, • Dartmouth’s humor magazine. • Then attended Oxford University in England • Pursued career as a cartoonist • He created advertising campaigns for Standard Oil • He made political cartoons for PM magazine • His first book ‘And to Think That I saw It on Mulberry Street was rejected 27 times • Vanguard Press published the bookThe Cat in the Hat was the first book to be popular • Wrote and illustrated 44 children’s books • Died September 24, 1991 from throat cancer • His works have been translated into 15 different languages and sold more than 200 million copies. • Has been awarded for this work nationally • Has been awarded two Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, a Peabody, and a Pulitzer Prize

  3. Works • The Cat in the Hat • The Cat in the Hat Comes Back • The Cat in the Hat in English and French • The Cat in the Hat • The Cat’s Quizzer • Dr. Seuss’s ABC • Fox in Socks • Green Eggs and Ham • Hop on Pop • I Am Not Going To Get Up Today! • I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! • I Wish That I Had Duck Feet • Oh, Say Can You Say? • One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish • Ten Apples Up On Top! • Wacky Wednesday • The Cat in the Hat Beginner Book Dictionary • Please Try to Remember the First of OctoberAll • Aboard the Circus McGurkus • Circus McGurkus 1, 2, 3! • Dr. Seuss’s Circus McGurkus Squirt! • Happy Birthday, Baby

  4. Works Continued • Horton Hears a Who! Can You? • One Fish, Two Fish, Three, Four, Five Fish • Up, Up, Up with the Cat • Wet Pet, Dry Pet, Your Pet, My Pet • The Foot Book • Great Day for Up! • Hooper Humperdink…? Not Him! • In a People House • Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? • The Shape of Me and Other Stuff • There’s a Wocket in My Pocket • The Tooth Book • Would You Rather Be a Bullfrog? • The Eye Book • The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins • And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street • Bartholomew and the Oobleck • The Butter Battle Book • The Cat in the Hat Songbook • Daisy-Head Mayzie • Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?

  5. Works Continued • Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book • Gerald McBoing Boing • Horton Hatches the Egg • Horton Hears A Who! • How the Grinch Stole Christmas • Hunches in Bunches • I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories • I Had Trouble in Getting to SollaSollew • If I Ran the Circus • If I Ran the Zoo • The King’s Stilts • The Lorax • McElligot’s Pool • My Book About Me • Oh, the Places You’ll Go! • On Beyond Zebra! • Scrambled Eggs Super! • The Sneetches and Other Stories • Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose • Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories

  6. Quotes • “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” • “A person's a person, no matter how small.” • “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,Nothing is going to get better. It's not.” • “I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!” • “You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.”

  7. More information about Dr. Seuss About Dr. Seuss • http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/61105.Dr_Seuss • http://www.seussville.com/ Dr. Seuss Quotes • http://www.catinthehat.org/history.htm Dr. Seuss Illustrations • http://www.drseussart.com/

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