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Author: Theodor Seuss Geisel Topic: Quotes and inspirations [] > — Dr. Seuss > — Dr. Seuss > — Dr. Seuss > — Dr. Seuss > — Dr. Seuss > Look at me! > Look at me NOW! > It is fun to have fun > But you have to know how." > — Dr. Seuss > — Dr. Seuss > — Dr. Seuss > — Dr. Seuss > but when he played,he really PLAYED." > — Dr. Seuss > — Dr. Seuss > there’s so much to be read, > you never can cram > all those words in your head. > > So the writer who breeds > more words than he needs > is making a chore > for the reader who reads. > > That's why my belief is > the briefer the brief is, > the greater the sigh > of the reader's relief is. > > And that's why your books > have such power and strength. > You publish with shorth! > (Shorth is better than length.)" > — Dr. Seuss > — Dr. Seuss > When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping." > — Dr. Seuss > — [|Dr. Seuss] ([|Oh, the Places You'll Go!]) [] [] [|http://find.galegroup.com/gps/retrieve.do?contentSet=IAC-Documents&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&qrySerId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28ke%2CNone%2C10%29dr.+seuss+%24&sgHitCountType=None&inPS=true&sort=DateDescend&searchType=BasicSearchForm&tabID=T002&prodId=IPS&searchId=R1&currentPosition=4&userGroupName=fcpsbhs&docId=A215247897&docType=IAC&contentSet=IAC-Documents] [] []
 * 1) As one of the most popular children's authors of all time, Geisel's books have topped many bestseller lists, sold over 222 million copies, and been translated into more than 15 languages.
 * Quotes**
 * 1) This is Dr.Seuss most famous quote "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..."— Dr. Seuss
 * 2) "Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
 * 1) "From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!"
 * 1) "I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!"
 * 1) "Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!"
 * 1) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room."
 * 2) — Dr. Seuss
 * 3) "Only you can control your future."
 * 1) "Look at me!
 * 1) "Think and wonder, wonder and think."
 * 1) "Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all."
 * 1) "Be awesome! Be a book nut!"
 * 1) "When he worked,he really worked.
 * 1) "Why fit in when you were born to stand out?"
 * 1) "It has often been said
 * 1) "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
 * 1) "The storm starts, when the drops start dropping
 * 1) "Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all."
 * 1) In 1954, Dr. Seuss read an article that said children were having trouble learning how to read in schools across the country. The article mentioned that the reason for this was because children found the books boring. This inspired Dr. Seuss to try to write for beginner readers. He took a list of 250 words that schools were teaching kids, and incorporated all of them into one book called //The Cat in the Hat//. The book was an instant success of course!
 * 2) On September 24, 1991, at the age of 87, Theodor Seuss Geisel passed away.
 * 3) His book oh the places you'll go is an inspiration to everyone because he talks about life and how there are two roads and you can either choose the road to a good life a the road to a bad life and he explains how the good life will bring you benefits and how the bad life will make you miserable.
 * 1) Ted's first children's book, **__And To Think I Saw It On Mulberry Street,__** is filled with Springfield imagery
 * 2) After Ted's first wife died in 1967, Ted married an old friend, Audrey Stone Geisel, who not only influenced his later books, but now guards his legacy as the president of Dr. Seuss Enterprises
 * 3) Besides the books, his works have provided the source for eleven children's television specials, a Broadway musical and a feature-length motion picture. Other major motion pictures are on the way.
 * 4) His honors included two Academy awards, two Emmy awards, a Peabody award and the Pulitzer Prize.
 * 5) Although his tenure as editor ended prematurely when Ted and his friends were caught throwing a drinking party, which was against the prohibition laws and school policy, he continued to contribute to the magazine, signing his work "Seuss."
 * 6) This is the first record of the "Seuss" pseudonym, which was both Ted's middle name and his mother's maiden name.
 * 7) The inspiration for Dr. Seuss to write __**And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street**__ was his child hood memory of Springfield because it is full of Springfield imagery and also includes a look alike of mayor Fordis Parker on the reviewing stand and police officers riding red motorcycles.
 * 8) While Ted was continuing to contribute to //Life, Vanity Fair, Judge// and other magazines, Viking Press offered him a contract to illustrate a collection of children's sayings called **__Boners__**.
 * 9) To please his father, who wanted him to be a college professor.
 * 10) Ted went on to Oxford University in England after graduation.
 * 11) his academic studies bored him, and he decided to tour Europe instead.
 * 12) Oxford did provide him the opportunity to meet a classmate, Helen Palmer, who not only became his first wife, but also a children's author and book editor.
 * 13) After returning to the United States, Ted began to pursue a career as a cartoonist. //The Saturday Evening Post// and other publications published some of his early pieces, but the bulk of Ted's activity during his early career was devoted to creating advertising campaigns for Standard Oil, which he did for more than 15 years.
 * 14) As World War II approached, Ted's focus shifted, and he began contributing weekly political cartoons to //PM// magazine, a liberal publication.
 * 15) Besides the books, his works have provided the source for eleven children's television specials, a Broadway musical and a feature-length motion picture. Other major motion pictures are on the way.
 * 1) Activities can be as simple as a parent reading to a child or a teacher to her students. NEA's website offers "Seussgestions" such as involving school bus drivers in a reading challenge, asking cafeteria workers to prepare recipes from favorite books, and involving college students and faculty from nearby institutions to be guest readers.
 * 2) Even though Seuss wrote children s books, he did not have any children of his own, He said "I don't think spending your days surrounded by kids is necessary to write the kind of books I write…. Once a writer starts talking down to kids, he's lost. Kids can pick up on that kind of thing.
 * 3) He used his own rhyme scheme when writing his books, known as anapestic tetrameter
 * 4) His honors included two Academy awards, two Emmy awards, a Peabody award and the Pulitzer Prize.
 * 5) The Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden is now open at the Springfield Museums in Springfield, Massachusetts, the city where Theodor Seuss Geisel was born and which appears to have inspired much of his work.
 * 6) Sculptor Lark Grey Dimond-Cates, who is also Geisel's step-daughter, created the endearing bronze sculptures of Dr. Seuss and his most beloved characters for the Springfield Library & Museums Association, located in the heart of this city which is on the Connecticut River in Western Massachusetts.
 * 7) With his intelligent but simple rhymes he bent the language to suit his whims by joining new words and teaching old ones new tricks.
 * 1) His father owned a brewery until the onset of Prohibition, a time in the 1920s when buying and selling alcohol was made illegal.
 * 2) Geisel's father then took a job as superintendent of city parks, which included the local zoo. There, young Theodor spent many days drawing the animals and eventually developing his own unique style.
 * 3) Though Geisel would later gain fame because of his unique artistic style, he never once had an art lesson.
 * 4) After dropping out of Oxford, he traveled throughout Europe, mingling with é migr é s (those living abroad) in Paris, including writer Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961).
 * 5) Geisel began writing the verses of his first book, //And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,// in 1936 during a rough sea passage.
 * 6) //**__And To Think I Saw It On Mulberry Street__**// was finally Published in 1937, the book won much praise, largely because of its unique drawings.
 * 7) All of Geisel's books, in fact, feature crazy-looking creatures that are sometimes based on real animals, but which usually consist of such bizarre combinations of objects as a centipede and a horse and a camel with a feather duster on its head.
 * 8) In May 1954, after a string of successful books, Geisel published what would become his most famous book, //The Cat in the Hat.//
 * 9) Legend has it that //The Cat in the Hat// was created, in part, because of a bet Geisel made with a publisher who said he could not write a complete children's book with less than 250 words.
 * 10) //The Cat in the Hat// came in at 223 words.
 * 11) In 1960 Geisel published his second-most successful book, //Green Eggs and Ham,// which used only fifty words.
 * 12) In 1958, from the success of his children's books, Geisel founded Beginner Books, which eventually became part of Random House.
 * 13) Admired among fellow authors and editors for his honesty and hard work, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, according to Ruth MacDonald in the //Chicago Tribune,// "perfected the art of telling great stories with a vocabulary as small as sometimes fifty-two or fifty-three words."
 * 14) Geisel's last two books spent several months on the bestseller lists and include themes that appealed to adults as well as children.
 * 15) "Finally I can say that I write not for kids but for people," he commented in the //Los Angeles Times.//
 * 16) Before Geisel, juvenile books were largely pastel, predictable, and dominated by a didactic tone (a sense that the books were intended to instruct).
 * 17) Though Dr. Seuss books sometimes included morals, they sounded less like behavioral guidelines and more like, "listen to your feelings" and "take care of the environment."
 * 18) Geisel's 47 books were translated into 20 languages and have sold more than 200 million copies.
 * 19) Of the ten bestselling hardcover children's books of all time, four were written by Geisel: //The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish,// and //Hop on Pop.//
 * 20) To children of all ages, Dr. Suess remains the most famous and influential name in children's literature.
 * 1) Theodor Geisel, better known to millions of children as Dr . Seuss, brought a whimsical touch and a colorful imagination to the world of children's books.
 * 2) "[Geisel] was not only a master of word and rhyme and an original and eccentric artist," declared Gerald Harrison, president of Random House's merchandise division, in //Publisher's Weekly,// "but down deep, I think he was basically an educator.
 * 3) According to the //Los Angeles Times,// the author also remarked, "I don't think spending your days surrounded by kids is necessary to write the kind of books I write…. Once a writer starts talking down to kids, he's lost. Kids can pick up on that kind of thing."
 * 4) Practiced drawing at the zoo
 * 5) When he was a child, Geisel practiced sketching at the local zoo, where his father was superintendent.
 * 6) He went on to graduate from Dartmouth College in 1925 and subsequently studied at the Lincoln College of Oxford University.
 * 7) Eventually returning to New York, he spent 15 years in advertising before joining the army and making two Oscar-winning documentaries, //Hitler Lives// and //Design for Death.//
 * 8) 1904–1991. American author and cartoonist, b. Springfield, Mass. Writer and illustrator of 48 books esp. for children that featured memorable characters, nonsense words, lively illustrations, and moral lessons behind the humor.
 * 9) Research backs him up. It shows that children who are motivated and spend lots of time reading do better in school, grow to love reading, and become lifelong readers and learners.
 * 10) Dr . Seuss's real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel, and The Cat in the Hat is probably his best known book. It has quite an interesting history.
 * 11) In May 1954, life magazine featured the problem of illiteracy among American children.
 * 12) Several writers blamed boring schoolbooks of the Dick and Jane variety for children's lack of interest in reading
 * 13) The International Reading Association is one of more than 50 partners with the National Education Association (NEA), which spearheads the nationwide Read Across America program.
 * 14) Schools, libraries, community centers, churches, hospitals, and bookstores are invited to host local events to celebrate and promote children's reading.
 * 15) Activities can be as simple as a parent reading to a child or a teacher to her students.
 * 16) NEA's website offers "Seussgestions" such as involving school bus drivers in a reading challenge, asking cafeteria workers to prepare recipes from favorite books, and involving college students and faculty from nearby institutions to be guest readers.
 * 17) He was basically an educator
 * 18) He wrote books for adults as well as children
 * 19) lived from 1904-1991
 * 20) Was an inspiration to everyone