BETWEEN 41 AND 43
Notice anything similar happening in America today?
Gotta love satire.
And, often, it is timeless.
Theodor Seuss Geisel (/suːs ˈɡaɪzəl, zɔɪs -/ ⓘ sooss
GHY-zəl, zoyss -;
March 2, 1904 – September 24,
1991) was an American children’s author, illustrator,
animator, and cartoonist. He is known for his work writing
and illustrating more than 60 books under the pen name Dr.
Seuss (/suːs, zuːs/ sooss, zooss). His work includes many of the most popular children’s books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death.
Geisel adopted the name “Dr. Seuss” as an undergraduate at
Dartmouth College and as a graduate student at Lincoln
College, Oxford. He left Oxford in 1927 to begin his career as
an illustrator and cartoonist for Vanity Fair, Life, and various
other publications. He also worked as an illustrator for
advertising campaigns, including for FLIT and Standard Oil,
and as a political cartoonist for the New York newspaper PM.
He published his first children’s book And to Think That I
Saw It on Mulberry Street in 1937. During World War II, he
took a brief hiatus from children’s literature to illustrate
political cartoons, and he worked in the animation and film
department of the United States Army.
After the war, Geisel returned to writing children’s books,
writing acclaimed works such as If I Ran the Zoo (1950),
Horton Hears a Who! (1954), The Cat in the Hat (1957), How
the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957), Green Eggs and Ham
(1960), One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish (1960), The
Sneetches and Other Stories (1961), The Lorax (1971), The
Butter Battle Book (1984), and Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
(1990). He published over 60 books during his career, which
have spawned numerous adaptations, including eleven
television specials, five feature films, a Broadway musical,
and four television series.
He received two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding
Children’s Special for Halloween Is Grinch Night (1978) and
Outstanding Animated Program for The Grinch Grinches the
Cat in the Hat (1982).[8] In 1984, he won a Pulitzer Prize
Special Citation. His birthday, March 2, has been adopted as
the annual date for National Read Across America Day, an
initiative focused on reading created by the National
Education Association.
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