dr. seuss author study

Dr. Seuss Author Study

By Shannon Baity

In 1904 when Dr. Seuss (aka Theodor Seuss Geisel) was born, he did not know “the places he would go.”

In 1925 he published his first picture and first used the name “Seuss.”

In 1927 he married his wife Helen Palmer.

In 1931 they found out Helen could not have children

And wrote his first book that was never published.

In 1937

Dr. Seuss’s First Published Book

He and Helen purchased an old observation tower in La Jalla California where he spent 8 hours a day writing.

Two of his first books

1954Two popular publishing companies asked

him to write a book using 220 vocabulary words

In 1957 the result: The Cat in the Hat

The Cat in the Hat

Dr. Seuss was considered to be one of the most inspirational and creative writers of the time.

Dr. Seuss Dies September 1991Dr. Seuss wrote and illustrated 44

children’s books and wrote and illustrated for many magazines by his death.

His other works included 11 children’s TV specials, a Broadway musical and a movie (with more on the way).

He also receive two Acadamy awards, two Emmy awards, a Peabody award and a Pulitzer Prize.

Here are some of his other popular

books…

There are many other great Dr. Seuss books to enjoy. Here’s a list. The 500 Hats of Bartholome

w 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? 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 Solla

Sollew 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

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 St

uff There’s a Wocket in My Pocket

The Tooth Book Would You Rather Be a Bullfr

og? The Eye Book All Aboard the Circus

McGurkus Circus McGurkus 1, 2, 3! Dr. Seuss’s Circus McGurkus

Squirt! Happy Birthday, Baby Horton Hears a Who! Can Yo

u? One Fish, Two Fish, Three, Fo

ur, Five Fish Up, Up, Up with the Cat Wet Pet, Dry Pet, Your Pet, M

y Pet

The Cat in the HatThe Cat in the Hat Comes BackThe Cat in the Hat in English

and FrenchThe Cat in the HatThe Cat’s QuizzerDr. Seuss’s ABCFox in SocksGreen Eggs and HamHop 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, the Thinks You Can Think!

Oh, Say Can You Say?One Fish Two Fish Red F

ish Blue FishTen Apples Up On Top!Wacky WednesdayThe Cat in the Hat

Beginner Book Dictionary

Please Try to Remember the First of Octember!

A Few of Dr. Seuss’s Many Great Quates“Today you are You, that is truer than true.

There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” “Sometimes the questions are complicated

and the answers are simple.” “Think left and think right and think low and

think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”

And one of my favorite of all time…

“A person's a person, no matter how small.” 

Great websites on Seuss!!!Seussville- http://www.seussville.com/

www.catinthehat.org/history.htm

The Art of Dr. Seuss- www.drseussart.com/