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The 8 Best Rhymes of Dr. Seuss
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Dr. Seuss’s long-lost manuscript, What Pet Should I Get? will be out on July 28th. This never-before-seen book will be Seuss’s 10th with a rhyming title. And we doubt that the great rhymes stop at the cover.
You’d think that if you had to rhyme everything, it would limit your ability to make much sense. Well, Dr. Seuss was so legendary, he had it both ways. He wrote brilliant verse that is both completely sensible and delightfully silly. Here are just a few of the Seussian rhymes we adore.
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
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“From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.”
From: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
23 years into his literary career, Dr. Seuss penned a couplet that sums up his whole oeuvre. As the first words in the book, they kick off 63 pages of fantastical creatures like the Yink and the Gox, and “funny things” like a fat fish in a yellow hat, a girl with 10 cats on her head, and a very wet pet. These were followed, of course, by dozens more books with even weirder, more wonderful things, which are beloved worldwide. Proving his point.
“From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.”
From: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
23 years into his literary career, Dr. Seuss penned a couplet that sums up his whole oeuvre. As the first words in the book, they kick off 63 pages of fantastical creatures like the Yink and the Gox, and “funny things” like a fat fish in a yellow hat, a girl with 10 cats on her head, and a very wet pet.
These were followed, of course, by dozens more books with even weirder, more wonderful things, which are beloved worldwide. Proving his point.
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“I meant what I said, and I said what I meant…An elephant’s faithful, one hundred per cent!”
From: Horton Hatches the Egg
Is there any Dr. Seuss character more loveable than Horton? He gets tricked by a bird into sitting on a nest, and when he realizes she isn’t coming back, does he walk away? Not at all—he stays on that egg no matter how many animals tease him, or how many obstacles get in his way.
Because he’s a faithful elephant. And as soon as he tells us this, we’re all faithful Horton fans.
“I meant what I said, and I said what I meant…An elephant’s faithful, one hundred per cent!”
From: Horton Hatches the Egg
Is there any Dr. Seuss character more loveable than Horton? He gets tricked by a bird into sitting on a nest, and when he realizes she isn’t coming back, does he walk away? Not at all—he stays on that egg no matter how many animals tease him, or how many obstacles get in his way. Because he’s a faithful elephant. And as soon as he tells us this, we’re all faithful Horton fans.
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“Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me NOW!
It is fun to have fun
But you have to know how.”
From: The Cat in the Hat
Despite how you may feel about the cat’s methods (and if you’re a parent, you probably agree with the pet fish), you have to admit: he knows how to have fun. With his wise words, he teaches kids that there are better things to do on rainy days than stare out the window. You just have to invent them.
“Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me NOW!
It is fun to have fun
But you have to know how.”
From: The Cat in the Hat
Despite how you may feel about the cat’s methods (and if you’re a parent, you probably agree with the pet fish), you have to admit: he knows how to have fun. With his wise words, he teaches kids that there are better things to do on rainy days than stare out the window. You just have to invent them.
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“And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)”
From: Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
This 1990 classic is everyone’s favorite graduation gift—not only because even the coolest, most cynical 18-year-olds have a soft spot for Seuss, but because his advice is whimsical, inspirational, and somehow still grounded in real life. This quote sums it up best. Recent grads are off to great places, and may even move mountains—though they should remember that nothing’s 100% certain. Just pretty darn close.
“And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.
)”
From: Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
This 1990 classic is everyone’s favorite graduation gift—not only because even the coolest, most cynical 18-year-olds have a soft spot for Seuss, but because his advice is whimsical, inspirational, and somehow still grounded in real life. This quote sums it up best. Recent grads are off to great places, and may even move mountains—though they should remember that nothing’s 100% certain. Just pretty darn close.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
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“‘Maybe Christmas,’ he thought, ‘doesn’t come from a store.
Maybe Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!’”
From: How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
There may be no Dr. Seuss moment that’s created more goosebumps than when every Who in Whoville (the tall and the small) holds hands and sings (without any presents at all). And we’re not the only ones who are moved. When the Grinch sees this sight, he stands puzzling for three hours, and then utters these revelatory words. It’s the ending we’ve been hoping for, and the message we hope that all kids (even the ones as small as Cindy-Lou Who) take to heart.
“‘Maybe Christmas,’ he thought, ‘doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!’”
From: How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
There may be no Dr. Seuss moment that’s created more goosebumps than when every Who in Whoville (the tall and the small) holds hands and sings (without any presents at all). And we’re not the only ones who are moved.
When the Grinch sees this sight, he stands puzzling for three hours, and then utters these revelatory words. It’s the ending we’ve been hoping for, and the message we hope that all kids (even the ones as small as Cindy-Lou Who) take to heart.
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“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”
From: The Lorax
The story of The Lorax could’ve been a bummer—a beautiful world destroyed by the selfishness of industry. But thanks to a single remaining Truffula Tree seed and this simple rhyme, nature still has a fighting chance.
And brilliantly, Dr. Seuss has left it to us (or “someone like” us) to spread the word. The smartest among us have been following his advice ever since.
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”
From: The Lorax
The story of The Lorax could’ve been a bummer—a beautiful world destroyed by the selfishness of industry. But thanks to a single remaining Truffula Tree seed and this simple rhyme, nature still has a fighting chance. And brilliantly, Dr. Seuss has left it to us (or “someone like” us) to spread the word. The smartest among us have been following his advice ever since.
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“Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is You-er than You!”
From: Happy Birthday to You!
Want to wish someone a happy birthday? Sure, you could do it yourself—but Dr. Seuss does it best. The book details the bizarre birthday rituals in Katroo, where a Birthday Bird delivers the best birthday message there’s ever been. It includes this feel-good rhyme, which can offer inspiration to anyone on any day of the year.
“Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is You-er than You!”
From: Happy Birthday to You!
Want to wish someone a happy birthday? Sure, you could do it yourself—but Dr. Seuss does it best. The book details the bizarre birthday rituals in Katroo, where a Birthday Bird delivers the best birthday message there’s ever been.
It includes this feel-good rhyme, which can offer inspiration to anyone on any day of the year.
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“When a fox is in the bottle where the tweetle beetles battle with their paddles in a puddle on a noodle-eating poodle, THIS is what they call…a tweetle beetle noodle poodle bottled paddled muddled duddled fuddled wuddled fox in socks, sir!”
From: Fox in Socks
Quotes you can write in a yearbook are all well and good. But sometimes it’s nice just to see what Dr. Seuss does best: tie up the tongues of parents and kids and leave us all catching our breaths, for generations.
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“When a fox is in the bottle where the tweetle beetles battle with their paddles in a puddle on a noodle-eating poodle, THIS is what they call…a tweetle beetle noodle poodle bottled paddled muddled duddled fuddled wuddled fox in socks, sir!”
From: Fox in Socks
Quotes you can write in a yearbook are all well and good. But sometimes it’s nice just to see what Dr. Seuss does best: tie up the tongues of parents and kids and leave us all catching our breaths, for generations.
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Pure Rhymes – 63 rhymes
Words that have identical vowel-based rhyme sounds in the tonic syllable. Moreover, that tonic syllable must start with a different consonantal sound.
boose
coos
cruce
deuce
goose
hoose
juice
loose
luce
moose
mousse
noose
sluice
spruce
truce
use
broose
abstruse
abuse
caboose
deduce
diffuse
disuse
excuse
induce
misuse
obtuse
produce
profuse
recluse
reduce
reuse
seduce
disabuse
introduce
reproduce
overproduce
reintroduce
Bruce
Druce
Duce
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Zeus
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- cook one's goose
- cook someone's goose
- golden goose
- in one's own juice
- stew in one's own juice
- all hell broke loose
- break loose
- cast loose
- cut loose
- have a screw loose
- on the loose
- play fast and loose
- screw loose
- set loose
- turn loose
- no use
- put to use
- to use
End Rhymes – 7 rhymes
Words that have a pure rhyme on their last syllable only.
mongoose
footloose
produce
hypotenuse
Anschluss
Octavus
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Near Rhymes – 1438 rhymes
Words that "almost" rhyme on the vowel-based rhyme sound of the stressed syllable like: be/eat or maybe/shapely.
duke's
dukes
flukes
kooks
nukes
pukes
spooks
rebukes
Dubuque's
Fuchs
Jukes
Luke's
boots
chutes
coots
flutes
fruits
hoots
lutes
moots
newts
roots
routes
scoots
shoots
shutes
smoots
suit's
suits
toots
loots
cahoots
commutes
computes
dilutes
disputes
grassroots
pollutes
pursuits
recruit's
recruits
refutes
salutes
Beirut's
Newt's
- heart in one's boots
- heart in your boots
- in one's boots
- lick one's boots
- shake in one's boots
- too big for one's boots
- too big for your boots
- tough as old boots
- in cahoots
- couldn't give two hoots
- grass roots
- grey suits
spooked
rebuked
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Mosaic Rhymes
Rhymes made up of more than one word. For instance, "jealous" and "tell us" or "shaky" and "make me."
There are no mosaic rhymes for "Dr. Seuss".
Why Dr. Seuss Hide The Midnight Pictures: A Mysterious Art Collection
Theodore Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, was a beloved American children's book author and illustrator. His ability to rhyme, invent words and create unique creatures continues to bring joy to children and adults around the world to this day. From creating political cartoons to designing advertisements for insect repellants, he has proven himself to be a man of many talents. But few people know about the existence of a collection of gloomy "Midnight Pictures", created by him in secret and not intended for public viewing until his death.
Brief biography
Theodor Seuss Geisel.
Seuss was born in Massachusetts in 1904 and moved to New Hampshire at the age of eighteen to attend Dartmouth College. While there, he was the editor-in-chief of their humor magazine Jack-O-Lantern, and continued to be so in secret, even after he was fired for violating prohibition laws. He got away with it because he used the pseudonym Suze. Later, after graduation, he entered the University of Oxford in the hope of becoming a professor. However, at 19At 27, he decided to drop out of school and return to the States full-time as a cartoonist.
Dr. Seuss and his book The Cat in the Hat. \ Photo: lajolla.com.
LIFE and Vanity Fair eagerly published his articles and cartoons, and his cartoon in the July 1927 issue of The Saturday Evening Post landed him a job with the New York weekly Judge. This publication was the first time that his pseudonym, Seuss, was used in a well established source. He worked for Standard Oil as an advertiser for fifteen years before breaking into the world of children's literature, drawing illustrations for a book collection called Boners.
Seuss became involved in politics with the onset of World War II, creating weekly political cartoons for PM Magazine and creating official animated training films and propaganda posters. Dr. Seuss has published over sixty books, the first of which was "And to think I saw this in Mulberry Street" at 1937 year.
Left to right: The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss. \ "Horton hears who!", Dr. Seuss.
His first famous book to be published was Horton Hears Who! in 1954. Three years later, an article in LIFE exposed the low level of reading in children. This prompted publishers Houghton Mifflin and Random House to request Geisel for The Cat in the Hat, which used only two hundred and twenty dictionary words. It was the same job that launched his career as a children's book writer and illustrator. While he is known for his childhood drawings in many cult classics, Midnight Pictures reveals another side of his craft.
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Relaxed in Spite of It 2000, Dr.
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Midnight paintings were created by Geisel usually at night and only for himself. In this space, he had the freedom to paint darker, more graphic pieces. He didn't want the paintings to affect his career in children's literature, and most of the time he didn't even consider himself a good artist. However, his personal creative time allowed him to explore controversial topics such as fear of death, sexuality, and drug use.
Cat from the Wrong Side of the Tracks
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The Cat in the Hat is one of the legendary books and one of the characters of Dr. Seuss. Known for his children's books, the cat reappears in many of the paintings he created in secret. In "Cat from the Wrong Side of the Tracks", the cat is getting ready for her next pool game. The cat smokes a cigarette while a string with eight beads on the right side and only one on the left floats above it.
Cat from the Wrong Side of the Tracks, Dr. Seuss.
Geisel smoked all his life and was determined never to smoke in the presence of a child. In 1981, he had a minor heart attack and was advised by his doctor to stop smoking. He tried several times to quit smoking using strange tactics and mixing unusual concoctions. Several of these paintings show the protagonist smoking, suggesting they are self-portraits.
Nine is an easy roll on a billiard table. This explores the myth of cats having nine lives, with only one bead (or life) remaining. This picture is an illustration of how fleeting and transient life can be and how quickly it can be taken away with one purposeful movement.
Cat in an old shower
Cat in an old shower, Dr. Seuss.
"Cat in an old shower" is another work showing the artist's alter ego. The background consists of strokes of a darker color, mostly green, blue, black, and with hints of brown.
In the middle is a shower head, connected to the wall by a floating bright yellow-green shower curtain that protects a cat that stands under the jets of water.
This work may be a tribute to the time when Dr. Seuss did not have fame and did not live the luxurious life that he was lucky to live in his old age. Perhaps the painting was inspired by reflections on less financially stable times.
In addition to being a literal interpretation of the cat soul, it is also an image of isolation and loneliness in a broader sense. The creature's head and upper body are completely covered by a shower curtain. Even though the viewer cannot read the expression on the cat's face, its posture indicates a moment of depression. A leaky faucet symbolizes weakness and shabby life.
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“Gosh!”
Am I really that old (from Gosh!), Dr.
Seuss.
La Jolla, California, has been his home since 1948, when he bought a dilapidated observation tower on Mount Soledad to serve as his art studio. Sitting high and working every day, he called himself a birdwatcher on the social stage. From his point of view, he could watch people and his neighbors downstairs. This led to a series of paintings called "The Bird Women of La Jolla". La Jolla is an affluent neighborhood just outside of San Diego, so many of the women he observed and drew whimsical versions of were obviously wealthy and trendy.
The themes of image obsession and fear of aging are featured in Gosh!. "Do I look as Old as all That" - This painting depicts a bird woman in a trendy outfit with pink textured details looking at herself in a mirror. The background consists of dark brush strokes, mostly using blue and purple tones. An aggressively drawn lamp with black lines for clarity serves as a light source.
The side profile of a woman shows a sad expression reflected in the mirror.
Wealthy people are often associated with a love of material possessions and youth, collecting expensive things and maintaining an appearance that defies the natural aging process. This work is less like a self-portrait, and more like how Geisel skillfully noticed the behavior of the people around him.
Self-portrait
Self-portrait, Dr. Seuss.
Dr. Seuss' titles sometimes give an accurate indication of how he wanted his writings to be interpreted. This work is a self-portrait of Dr. Seuss, and the creature in the painting "Self-Portrait" shows the stress that an artist can be under even when he is successful.
The key element used in Midnight Pictures is black and dark shades. Therefore, sometimes one gets the impression that in most works, including this one, only a black pen and ink, white and oil pastel are used, with which black marks are made on light paper. The character is surrounded by complete darkness. Neither the horizon nor the background provide context, there is only pitch darkness.
In illustrations for his children's books, he uses black only for shading and contouring.
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Part of this amazing collection is that at the time of its creation, the paintings were for personal viewing only. But over time, the artist made a difficult decision and allowed them to be made public after his death. "Midnight Pictures" gives an insight into the mind of Dr. Seuss and opens up new facets of his work.
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44 Top-Down Facts About Dr. Seuss
“The more you read, the more things you learn.
The more you learn, the more places you will go.”
Theodor Seuss Geisel was born March 2, 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts. Before starting to write children's books, he worked as an illustrator and humorist for various magazines and provided illustrations for several advertising campaigns. Under the pseudonym Dr. Seuss, he has written over 60 children's books, as well as over a dozen under the name Theo LeSig. He was known for his iconic characters and crazy rhymes, and they have been and continue to be cherished for generations by both adults and children. Below are 44 nonsensical facts about Dr. Seuss and his books.
44. How to unlock
When Dr. Seuss blocked writers, he reportedly had an unusual remedy. If he got stuck, he would enter a secret room filled with hundreds of hats and keep trying them out and imagining which character would wear it. He then sat on the floor and waited for inspiration to hit him.
43.
In his honor There is a statue of Dr. Seuss in his hometown. It was designed by his daughter, Lark Gray Dimond-Kates, and features Suze sitting at her desk with the Cat in the Hat standing next to him. The sculpture is housed in the Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden, which also houses several of his most famous characters, including the Lorax, the Grinch, and Horton.
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42. Excuse me, dad?
Dr. Seuss's books have been challenged/banned for a number of reasons, but one of the strangest issues came in 2013 when a patron at the Toronto Public Library demanded that Hop on Pop be removed from the shelf because it contributed to father abuse. The patron wanted the library to remove the book and apologize to the fathers, as well as pay the damages resulting from the book. The library committee ruled that the book didn't actually tell the kids to jump on the pop and dismissed the complaint.
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41.
Building Creatures In the 1930s, Dr. Seuss was shipped beak, horns, and antlers from the Springfield Zoo by his father, and he used plays to create sculptures of his fantasy creatures. His collection included "Tufting Fever", "Two Horned Drubermanns" and "Mulber Street Unicorn". He decided to call his collection "The Unorthodox Taxidermy Collection".
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40. Disappearing Scene
A slight childhood acquaintance with Teddy Roosevelt was responsible for the fact that Suze strongly disliked public speaking. At the age of 14, he was supposed to receive a medal from Teddy Roosevelt for being the best war bond salesman, but Roosevelt was one medal short and apparently yelled "What is that little boy doing here?" At Sues. Scoutmaster quickly pulled Seuss off the stage and he was so humiliated that for the rest of his life he was afraid of public speaking.
39. In "Time Nick"
After getting so many rejections and thinking I saw it at Mulberry Street, Seuss was reportedly on his way home to write down the manuscript when he bumped into a friend from Dartmouth, who worked for a children's publisher.
On the same day, Seuss was signed to a contract and a career was born. Seuss once remarked that if he had walked across the street that day, he would have been at the dry cleaners.
38. Cultural criticism
As he did with many of his stories, Seuss used Snowflakes and Other Stories, to understand. The name's story is about creatures called Sneetches, which are all exactly the same except for some that have a star on their stomachs. Star-studded snowflakes look down upon those who are without, oppressed and forbidden to associate with star-shaped beings. This story was intended to mock racism and discrimination between different cultures, in particular as a commentary on antisemitism. In a 2012 review in the School Library Journal, it was ranked #63 of the top 100 picture books of all time.
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37. Seuss in song
Although he was not a composer, Dr. Seuss actually wrote the lyrics for several songs based on his works.
He collaborated with composer Albert Haag for his most famous song, "You're the One Mr. Grinch", and with Eugene Poddani on Dr. Seuss's Songbook, which contained sleep songs and nonsensical songs for children. The pair also worked together on the animated TV special Horton Hears a Who. In 2000, composers Lynn Aherns and Stephen Flaherty of Ragtime fame debuted Seussical: The Musical on Broadway, based on Seuss' most famous characters, featuring over 30 songs.
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36. Swan Song
When Dr. Seuss published About the Places You Will Go in 1990, he was already battling cancer and knew it would be his last book. The story, a favorite gift for graduates, promises children that they will move mountains, but also warns that they will encounter obstacles in the process. 28 years after its publication, it has sold over 10 million copies and is Seuss' best-selling book.
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Controversy The Oil Battle is one of Dr. Seuss's most controversial books. In the story, Yooks and Zooks are two races separated by a wall - one race eats glasses of butter and the other side of butter. The difference leads both sides to war, and each side develops a bomb that can destroy the other. The book was published in 1984 when the Cold War was still raging and the story clearly represented Americans and Russians. The book has faced many objections due to its sensitive content and for portraying Russians and Americans as equals.
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34. Taking on a New Meaning
Marvin K Mooney, you please go now scandal, so the likelihood that this was Seuss' original intention is rather slim. However, he realized how good the title was, and in 1974 he sent a copy to his friend at Washington Post , deleting Marvin K. Mooney's name and replacing it with Richard M. Nixon.
33.
Too Political In 2012, a teacher in the Prince Rupert School District in British Columbia was banned from displaying a quote from by Yertle Turtle in her classroom. The quote "I know from above you see big views, but down below we should have rights too" was found to be a political message that educators at BC forbid from being placed in schools. Dr. Seuss has never made a secret of his desire to teach children about politics through his books. Many of them contained explicit political messages, and Seuss himself once stated that Yertle Turtle was about Hitler.
32. Allegorical Elephant
Beloved Story Horton Hears Who was more than an elephant who heard voices. Seuss wrote the story as an allegory for the American treatment of Japan after World War II, and the message that a tiny country like Japan needed the help of a larger country to recover from the war. He wrote this story after visiting Hiroshima and dedicated the book to a friend who lived in Japan.
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31. Annual Tradition
In 1966, Dr. Seuss worked with animator Chuck Jones of Looney Tunes fame, to create the animated special Like a Grinch Christmas Decoration. The specialty was poorly received at the time and was even called a "costly flop" by Variety, but it is now considered a holiday tradition and shown annually on television.
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30. Seuss Oxford
After graduating from Dartmouth, Dr. Seuss made a brief visit to the University of Oxford in London, where he intended to earn a PhD in English Literature. However, he never completed his studies - while at school he met his first wife, Helen, who convinced him to abandon the program and continue painting full-time.
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29. Special Contribution
In 1984, Dr. Seuss was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in the Special Category of Awards and Citations for his "special contribution over nearly half a century to the education and enjoyment of America's children and their parents.
" The award is one of the highest honors that a writer or journalist has.
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28. Hollywood Flop
Dr. Seuss actually tried at one point to penetrate the world of films. He wrote a screenplay that originally dealt with the themes of world domination and oppression in World War II, but somehow turned into a story about a boy whose piano lessons led him to The Wizard of Oz, like an adventure. A movie titled "Dr. T's 5000 Fingers" was on the flop, and some patrons reportedly exited after 15 minutes.
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27. Oscar Winner
The 1947 Oscar for Best Feature Documentary was awarded Design for Death, a film that was inspired by something Seuss had previously written for the War Productions Board. While he was widely praised at the time, some felt that his descriptions of Japanese culture and history were close to propaganda. Seuss also won the Oscar for Best Animated Short at 1950 for Gerald McBoyne Boeing .
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26. Creative Broker
Dr. Seuss liked to smoke his pipe and when he tried to quit smoking he decided to have some fun. One day he filled his pipe with mud and planted strawberry seeds inside. Whenever he wanted to smoke, he apparently took a pipette and watered his pipe.
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25. For Love of Verse
Seus attributed his love of verse to his mother. When he and his sister were children, his mother sang them to sing with the rhyme that she was selling pies in her family's bakery. He said that she played a key role in developing her interest in language and rhyme.
24. When he painted the zoo
When the ban destroyed the Seus family brewery, his father became the head of the Forest Park and the accompanying zoo. Seuss would bring a sketch pad along his usual backstage tour of the zoo and draw the animals he saw there. Many of these animals will be featured in his future books.
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23. Deviation
Dr. Seuss is one of many authors who have been subject to multiple rejections prior to publication. The first book he wrote and illustrated, and to think that I saw her on MulBerry Street, was rejected 27 times. This was finally picked up by the Vanguard Press in 1937.
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22. Promoting Literacy
One of Dr. Seuss's most famous and beloved books, The Cat in the Hat, was commissioned by a textbook editor. The editor read an article in Lifetime Magazine about the rate of illiteracy among children and asked Seuss to write to the reader that children would use 250 specific words. The book was published at 1957 and has been described as a "tour de force".
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21. Are you reading this?
When Seuss wrote Hop on Pop , he played a little game with the text to make sure the editor read the entire book.
Instead of writing big words, he broke them down into smaller chunks. The line read: “When I read, I am smart / I always separate whole words. / Con Stan Tin O Ple, Tim Buk Too / Con Tra Cep Tive, Kang Ge Ru. “Imagine if it printed!
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20. Environmental Action
Dr. Seuss's The Lorax is considered a warning about human impact on the environment and a call to children to recognize their responsibility to protect it. The logging industry believed the book was claiming that their business was immoral and wanted it banned from schools. In 1994, the National Oak Flooring Association published a debunking book called The Truax.
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19. Fear of Children
Dr. Seuss certainly knew how to write books that children loved, but in his private life he was reportedly quite uncomfortable with children. He never had children and, according to his widow Audrey, he was always worried about what they would do or say next.
When asked why he doesn't have children of his own, he wrote for children, he apparently said, "You make them, I'll entertain them."
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18. Good for babies
The idea of how babies could hear and respond to their parents' voices in the womb was of great interest to Seuss, and he was thrilled to learn that "The Cat in the Hat" was found by researchers to be the perfect book to read to babies in the womb. Books Dick and Jane . The books were considered moralistic and preachy, but Seuss's books were quite the opposite. Seuss never tried to tell kids what they were behaving, and as far as he was concerned, he didn't write for kids - he wrote for people (meaning kids are people and deserve respect).
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16. I dare you
Green eggs and ham were written for audacity. Seuss' editor put it to him that he couldn't write a book of 50 words or less.
Seuss accepted the bet and wrote a book of exactly 50 words. It became one of his bestsellers and, according to to Weekly , has sold over 8 million copies.
15. Around Punishment
During the ban, Suze and his friends were caught in the denim room at Dartmouth College. As punishment, he was removed as editor of the college humor magazine, Jack-O-Fantern , but that doesn't mean he stopped writing. As a form of punishment, he continued to write and publish under various pen names, including T. Seus, Dr. Theodostros Seuss, and of course, Dr. Seuss, which you may have heard of...
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14. Language change
The word "nerd" is said to have been invented (or at least popularized) by Dr. Seuss. The first documented use of the word appeared in his 1950 book If I Win at the Zoo and the botanist was the creature the narrator promised to bring to the zoo if he were in charge. Seuss was also responsible for changing the meaning of the Grinch in the way it is defined today - as a rude person.
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13. Critical Cartoons
Between his books for children, Dr. Seuss wrote a number of political cartoons for a left-handed newspaper in New York. He criticized the isolationist policies in the US and called for the country to enter World War II. He also blew up anti-Semitism and racism, but these beliefs were somewhat at odds with his depictions of the Japanese in his cartoons.
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12. Other ways to contribute
When the US finally joined the war, Seus wanted to join the Navy, but instead he made other contributions. He was asked to help make war propaganda films with Frank Capra and children's book author/illustrator P. D. Eastman. He created the character Private Snafu (a popular military term meaning "The situation is normal", "All Fouled Up"), who taught recruits how to be good soldiers. The cartoons served as a lesson in story development and vocabulary that Seuss would apply to his books.
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11. Evasion of life
The line "A man is a man, no matter how small" from Horton's classic book Listen Who has become the slogan for numerous organizations involved in the production of life. Over the years, people have questioned whether this means what Seuss meant, but regardless of his personal feelings, he threatened to sue for one pro-life unless they removed it from their letterhead. According to his estate's lawyer, his widow also doesn't want his material or characters to be "captured" by anyone to support a particular point of view.
9. Not Terribly Erotic
Dr. Seuss made two attempts to write for adults. One of them is book The Seven Ladies Godivas: True Facts About the Baresta Family , and it was a complete failure. Even though the book featured nude women, Seuss felt that the success of the book's success was not due to the fact that he could not "paint sexy". Another problem was that the book violated people's view of the author and illustrator of Seuss' favorite children's book.
His only other adult picture book was called You're only old" . It was published in 1986 and dealt with the annoyances of aging.
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8. Not really a doctor
Dr. Seuss was not a doctor. He added "Doctor" to his name while in college, to A: to make his work more credible, and B: because his father always hoped he would become a doctor. In 1956, his alma mater Dartmouth granted him an honorary doctorate, making "doctor" at Dr. Seuss a little more legitimate.
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7. His Own Award
The Theodore Seuss Geisel Award is given annually by the American Library Association, recognizing an author/illustrator's achievement in using creativity and imagination to read to children. The award was first presented in 2006 to Cynthia Rylan for her stories Henry and Mudge .
6. Fairy tale retelling
The Grinch from the classic Christmas story How the Grinch Stole Christmas, bears more than a passing resemblance to Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol , in which a pitiful smirk threatens to take Christmas away from his town's poor.
The story demonstrated Seuss's ability to teach but not preach, and dealt with issues such as poverty, generosity, and class. In the end, the despicable Grinch turns out to be not entirely bad, and his heart grows in size as the city shares Christmas with him, much like Scrooge ends at the end of his story.
5. Happy Endings
You will never find a sad or unhappy ending to Seuss' story, even when he is learning a lesson. No matter what topic he addresses, he made a point of making sure all of his books were funny and ended with a happy note.
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4. Legacy
Dr. Seuss died of throat cancer in 1991, but left a legacy. His books are still popular decades after they were published, many have been adapted into films, and he has been given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His birthday, March 2, is now celebrated annually as "Reading Through America Day" when schools and libraries plan crafts, events and of course their book readings to mark the occasion.
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3. It's not how you say it!
Most people say "Seuss" to rhyme with "Moose", but it's not like Seuss said. The correct pronunciation of Soose rhymes with voice or choice, but since the Bell itself has adopted the pronunciation of Soose, there is no need to say it any other way.
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2. Chrysanthemum Pearls
Although Seus was uncomfortable around children, the idea that he doesn't want them is fiction. His first wife, Helen, was unable to have children, and to try to cheer her up, he invented a fake baby named Chrysanthemum Pearl, who could make a great chocolate-coated oyster stew with Roman candles. 500 Bartholomew Cubbins hats were even dedicated to her.
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1. Hidden stamp
In 2013, it was announced that the lost manuscript of Dr. Seuss had been discovered and would be published in 2015.
