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DR. SEUSS

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff


THE BELOVED AUTHOR OF MORE THAN 46 CHILDREN'S BOOKS

BY BORGNA BRUNNER




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At the time of Theodor Seuss Geisel's death in 1991, his 46 children's books had
sold more than 200 million copies, and his last, Oh, the Places You'll Go!
(1990), was still on the bestseller lists. His books, which he both illustrated
and wrote, have been translated into twenty languages as well as Braille.


WOCKETS, WHOS, AND GRINCHES

Better known by his pen name, Dr. Seuss, he populated his odd and fanciful
children's books with a hybrid bestiary of Wockets, Whos, Grinches, bunches of
Hunches, Bar-ba-loots, red fish, blue fish, and a fox in socks. He once remarked
in an interview, "If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I
wouldn't show up."

His stories march forward at an incantatory, rhythmic pace, and are full of
tongue-twisters, word play, and highly inventive vocabulary. The American
Heritage Dictionary in fact credits Dr. Seuss as the originator of the word
nerd, which made its first appearance in his 1950 book, If I Ran the Zoo: "And
then just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo And Bring Back an It-Kutch a Preep
and a Proo a Nerkle a Nerd and a Seersucker, too!"


REJECTED BY 28 PUBLISHERS

His books were originally considered too outlandish to appeal to children. His
first, And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street (1937), was reputedly
rejected by twenty-eight publishers before it finally found a home at Random
House. It was one of the company's most prescient decisions: former Random House
President Bennett Cerf once remarked, "I've published any number of great
writers, from William Faulkner to John O'Hara, but there's only one genius on my
authors list. His name is Ted Geisel."


THE CAT IN THE HAT

Among his most famous books is The Cat and the Hat (1957), a story about two
children who find themselves home alone with a roguish, hat-wearing feline who
is a study in bad behavior. With only 223 vocabulary words and much repetition,
it was ideally suited for beginning readers and became a lively alternative to
the wooden dullness of the "See Spot run" primers.

Green Eggs and Ham (1960) managed with a vocabulary of just fifty words to tell
the story of a Seuss creature's relentless crusade to introduce a hapless furry
character to a revolting dish.


POLITICAL CARTOONIST AND DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER

In addition to becoming one of the world's most loved children's writers, Ted
Geisel worked as a political cartoonist, an advertising illustrator, and a
documentary filmmaker. Geisel also wrote other books under the pseudonyms Theo
LeSieg and Rosetta Stone.

He graduated from Dartmouth College, where he edited the school humor magazine,
and pursued a Ph.D. in English literature at Oxford, ultimately dropping out
when he decided his studies were "astonishingly irrelevant." They certainly did
little to aid his phantasmagorical imagination in the creation of the
environmentally conscious Loraxes and fractious Sneetches, not to mention the
indescribable Zubble-wumps and ooey-gooey green Ooblecks. Dr. Seuss claimed his
ideas started with doodles: "I may doodle a couple of animals; if they bite each
other, it's going to be a good book."



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