The birthday of Mr. Theodor Seuss Geisel – or as he’s better known, Dr. Seuss was yesterday, March 2, and celebrated by thousands of school kids recreating one of his famous books, Green Eggs and Ham. Dr. Seuss Day has become a national tradition, and it has inspired many a school activity, including the creation of actual green eggs and ham!
Dr. Seuss wrote many children’s books that have become classics, with one of his most popular being The Cat and the Hat, consisting of only 236 words. (Green Eggs and Ham used only 50 words.)
Dr. Seuss was born at home in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1904. He attended Dartmouth College, where he was the editor of the Jack-O-Lantern humor magazine.
After graduating, he moved to England to attend Oxford, where he met his future wife, Helen Palmer. They returned to the United States, and in 1927, he published his first cartoon in the Saturday Evening Post. His career had ups and downs with multiple rejections of his work. And To Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street, his first children’s book, was published in 1937 after 20 rejections. Seuss career resulted in over 60 children’s books written and illustrated by him…