Seuss characters or material to front their own points of view."ĥ. Seuss' interests, says the author's widow doesn't like people to "hijack Dr.
It's often questioned whether that was Seuss' intent in the first place, but when he was still alive, he threatened to sue a pro-life group unless they removed his words from their letterhead. The line from the book, "A person's a person, no matter how small," has been used as a slogan for pro-life organizations for years. The 50 words, by the way, are: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you. Geisel started writing and came up with Green Eggs and Ham -which uses exactly 50 words. Not one to back down from a challenge, Mr. The Cat in the Hat was pretty simple, after all, and it used 225 words. Seuss' editor, bet him that he couldn't write a book using 50 words or less. "That is my greatest satisfaction."īennett Cerf, Dr. "I have great pride in taking Dick and Jane out of most school libraries," he said. Because kids weren't interested in the material, they weren't exactly compelled to use it repeatedly in their efforts to learn to read. Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat because he thought the famous Dick and Jane primers were insanely boring. Seuss agreed and said that it wouldn't be in future editions.ĭr. Another interesting fact: the book used to contain the line, "I hear things are just as bad up in Lake Erie," but 14 years after the book was published, the Ohio Sea Grant Program wrote to Seuss and told him how much the conditions had improved and implored him to take the line out. Groups within the logging industry weren't very happy about it and later sponsored The Truax, a similar book-but from the logging point of view. Seuss' take on environmentalism and how humans are destroying nature. Here's a little background on some of his greatest hits.
Theodor Seuss Geisel wasn't actually a doctor (at least not until his alma mater, Dartmouth, gave him an honorary PhD), but his unique poetic meter and leap-off-the-page illustrations made him one of the most successful children's writers in history.
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