sourceWhen one thinks of Dr. Seuss, we all think of these wonderful books that we all grow up learning to read from, and continuing that reading even after we could read. He was a genius when it came to entertaining children with cleaver literature. His books are filled with adventures, rhyming, humor, and fun, they are what might call whimsical. Also, they are known all around the world, being translated in little over fifteen languages. However, We will soon find out that Dr. Seuss was much more then an amazing children's author.
Theodor Seuss Deisel, Dr. Seuss only been being his pen name, was born to Theodor Robert and Henrietta (Seuss) Deisel. He was born on March 2, 1905 in Springfield, Massachusetts. His family supervised their local pubic park, which later came important for his first book.
Theodor, was clearly a character as seen through his life's work in written form. However, this did not start from the age of an adult. For his college years where something to remembered. He went to Dartmouth College, being part of the class of 1925. Clearly being a written he was part of the Humor Magazine, in time he was not only part of it but he because the editor in chief of this magazine for his school.
Theodor, was clearly a character as seen through his life's work in written form. However, this did not start from the age of an adult. For his college years where something to remembered. He went to Dartmouth College, being part of the class of 1925. Clearly being a written he was part of the Humor Magazine, in time he was not only part of it but he because the editor in chief of this magazine for his school.
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Something very important to note is that, the time the young man that Theodor was at the time, was the time of the Prohibition . Meaning that not only was it against the college's rules to drink, but it was currently a law of the united states until it got repealed in 1933. Keeping this in mind, Theodor and a few of his college buddies had a party that included a lot of alcohol. The Dean of the college had punished him by removing him from everything but the necessary classes he needed to take.
Now, for Theodor to stop writing for his humor magazine was not an option, in his opinion. This, is the beginning of the so well known Dr. Seuss's pen name started. In order to keep writing he started signing his works “Seuss.” Theodor transferred to Lincoln College, Oxford. Here we studied literature and philosophy. After a time there, he found his studies to not be relevant, so he did what any young man would do that was creatively smart, he dropped out. However, he did find his first wife at this college, Helen Palmer. Who just happened to turn out to be another children author.
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Something very important to note is that, the time the young man that Theodor was at the time, was the time of the Prohibition . Meaning that not only was it against the college's rules to drink, but it was currently a law of the united states until it got repealed in 1933. Keeping this in mind, Theodor and a few of his college buddies had a party that included a lot of alcohol. The Dean of the college had punished him by removing him from everything but the necessary classes he needed to take.
Now, for Theodor to stop writing for his humor magazine was not an option, in his opinion. This, is the beginning of the so well known Dr. Seuss's pen name started. In order to keep writing he started signing his works “Seuss.” Theodor transferred to Lincoln College, Oxford. Here we studied literature and philosophy. After a time there, he found his studies to not be relevant, so he did what any young man would do that was creatively smart, he dropped out. However, he did find his first wife at this college, Helen Palmer. Who just happened to turn out to be another children author.
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Theodor was not just a children's author at this point. He was writing scripts for plays and movies at this point. He was also writing humor for a few different places. He started illustrating for other peoples works. He was drawing cartoons, Theodor was even in a advertisement. Just as we have commercials today that become every popular and everyone is quoting it, this is exactly what happened to his advertisement. At this point in his life he was making more and more of the Seuss that we know and love today.
sourceThese are of the many things he did to support himself and his wife during the war, one his best known books was written, that is still read today, this is his first children book he wrote and published. Getting this book published was no easy task for it took twenty seven attempts to get someone to published it. Not knowing what they missed out on he went to the twenty eighth place, Vanguard Press. (take note that the number of times this story was rejected will change from source to source, this being the most conman source)
sourceThe book is called, “And to Think I saw it on Mulberry Street.” This is a very well known book to all of those who grew up reading his books. Remember how his dad worked for local public parks? Well one of these just happened to be on Mulberry street. What Seuss did, was he wrote about a boy who imagined all these going down the street. This street was a street in the Springfield, the town that he grew up in. Dr. Seuss, for all his creatively and imagination surprisingly pulls a lot of his ideas from his own personal life and experiences. This was published in 1937.
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The time period that heavily effected his writing was World War II. Not only did Theodor keep writing and illustrating his own children's books during the war, but he always wrote about four hundred political cartoons. Clearly there was much more to Dr. Seuss then writing cleaver children's books. Geisel, very much was a Democratic and supporter Roosevelt's decision as president. A majority of his cartoons were about Hitler, his doings, and our response to his acts and a country. However, he did quite often poke fun at the congress not supporting them. He supported the war act by his works for publicity. One thing that Dr. Seuss did very wrong was he was very racist against Japan and it was made every clear in his war cartoons, even as he was anti-African Americans racism and anti-semitism, Not only did he draw cartoons for the war effort he joined the army as a captain, here he wrote films for the army, these that he did even won awards. After the war, he published his political cartoons in a book called, “Dr. Seuss goes to war.”
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sourceAfter the war was over, him and his wife moved to La Jolla, California where he wrote most of his books for children. When Dr. Seuss saw that the kids were not learning to read well and did not enjoy reading, he saw this as a challenge and took it. He started writing simple books that had only around two hundred and fifty words in the whole book. These books were those such as, “Cat and the Hat” and “Hop on Pop.”
“On October 23, 1967, suffering from a long struggle with illnesses including cancer, as well as emotional pain over her husband's affair with Audrey Stone Dimond, Geisel's wife, Helen Palmer Geisel, committed suicide.Geisel married Dimond on June 21, 1968. Though he devoted most of his life to writing children's books, Geisel had no children of his own. He would say, when asked about this, "You have 'em; I'll entertain 'em."” On September 24, 1991 he passed away of throat cancer, leaving is legened to carry on.
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As a child growing up and reading book after book writen by Dr. Seuss, they are just adventure after adventure, intertaning story books that are fun to read, and let us face it, they have some really awesome pictures to look at. As a child he is just thought of as the guy with the funny hat and cool stories. However, we have found out that his tale has so much more to it. He did not just write random stories, but these stroies has points to them. ( most to which being politcal. ) Horten hears a who is all about anti-racism. In a way, it is him taking about just judgment about Japan by saying, “A person is a person no matter now small.” This book was also, a way to introduce his ideas about profive and supporting it with the same famous quote. The hat that his trademark wore, the cat in the hat was the hat that many people know as uncle sams hat. The grinch that stole Christmas was to call out materism. He used a lot of books to encourage equal rights after the war. He even used a lot of famale roles to encourage equal rights bewteen men amd women.
We have found out that there was much more to this man then just cleaver writing, but rather that he was so much more. He was an artice, cartoonist, polical man, a screen writer, and a play writer. Not using mindless stories, but using his stories to use his points and what he believed in. Remember, “A person is a person no matter how small.”
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We have found out that there was much more to this man then just cleaver writing, but rather that he was so much more. He was an artice, cartoonist, polical man, a screen writer, and a play writer. Not using mindless stories, but using his stories to use his points and what he believed in. Remember, “A person is a person no matter how small.”
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We still honor him by reading his books in schools, learning from them sharing them down from generation to generation. Moveis are made out of this books, and there has even been a play after his book “Hortan hears a Who” called Sessical the Musical. We celebrate his birthday every year as a holiday, March 2nd. In honor of him it has become the Read Across American Day.
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The following is the forty four children's book that he wrote over the years.
And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street (1937)
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The following is the forty four children's book that he wrote over the years.
And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street (1937)
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