"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, its a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
HORTON HATCHES THE EGG
Don't fool with Mother Nature.
"UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful
lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
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Oh, the Places You'll Go !
"You have brains in your head.
Great Graduation Gift
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Dynamic Rhyming Prose and Poetry of a
brother and sister abandoned by their mother and left to temptation.... unable to control the ID, Ego and Superego.
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Sam is that persistant friend who guides us
along in life to find the success that lies within. We try in every way
to resist his help, but it the end we take it.
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Recommend for All Ages. A book that encourages
discussion of emotions.
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 The Annotated Cat: Under the Hats of Seuss and His Cats
How did Dr. Seuss come to write The Cat in the Hat? How long did it take him to write The Cat in the Hat and The Cat in the Hat Comes Back? Were these books instantly successful, or did their popularity build? The answers to these questions and more can be found in this fascinating illustrated study of two books that changed the way our children learn how to read. According to Professor Nel, The Cat in the Hat and its sequel operate on many levels. The books teach reading, but they also teach about poetry, politics, ethics, comics, history, and even conartistry! Complete with the text of both books, photographs, draft material, and essays by Seuss, The Annotated Cat is like a DVD with all the extras. Cat lovers everywhere can gain a deeper understanding of two of the most popular children's books ever written, and the remarkable man behind them.
By Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss lives on in
“Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!” After Theodor Geisel’s death in 1991, his editor
Janet Schulman at Random House contacted Dr. Seuss’s secretary to inquire
about a book that Dr. Seuss had mentioned in a passing conversation.
It was about a special, “pretty different” teacher, Miss Bonkers.
Receiving all of Seuss’s original sketches
and notes, Ms. Schulman set about to honor Seuss and publish it.
“Doctoring Dr. Seuss was something I had never had to do during the eleven
years I was his editor.”
Children’s poet Jack Prelutsky and children’s
book illustrator Lane Smith teamed together to complete what Dr. Seuss
had started.
The result is a wonderful clever crazy poetic
book celebrating creative thinking, and individuality. The afterward
includes Seuss’ notes and sketches… a treat in and of themselves.
Dr. Seuss, [his pen name], wrote and illustrated
his first children’s book, AND
TO THINK I SAW IT ON MULBERRY STREET in 1937 after being rejected by
about 40 publishers. The rest, as they say, is history.
After a tour of duty during WWII, he returned
to write and illustrate more than 40 books many noted on this site.
Dr. Seuss loved a challenge. Concerned
with children’s literacy, Seuss’ publisher created and gave him a list
of hundred of words and asked him to use as many as he could in one book.
That book became THE CAT IN THE HAT.
Another challenge was to use 50 words to create
a book we now know as GREEN EGGS AND HAM.
In 1984 Dr. Seuss received a special Pulitzer
Prize citation for his lifelong contribution to the education of children….and
their children.
On September 24, 1991, Theodor Seuss
Geisel died leaving behind a celebration of life and literature.
“How did it get so late so soon?
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