Seuss lives on, inspiring generations of children of all ages to explore the joys of reading. While Theodor Geisel died on September 24, 1991, Dr. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1984, an Academy Award, three Emmy Awards, three Grammy Awards, and three Caldecott Honors, Geisel wrote and illustrated 44 books. Geisel published his first children’s book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, in 1937, after 27 publishers rejected it. He coined the phrase, “Quick, Henry, the Flit!” which became a popular expression. Geisel gained national exposure when he won an advertising contract for an insecticide called Flit. His cartoons also appeared in major magazines such as Life, Vanity Fair, and Liberty. Upon his return to America later that year, Geisel published cartoons and humorous articles for Judge, the leading humor magazine in America at that time. At Oxford, Geisel met Helen Palmer, whom he wed in 1927. After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1925, he went to Oxford University, intending to acquire a doctorate in literature. Seuss was born Theodor Geisel in Springfield, Massachusetts, on March 2, 1904. In the process, he helped millions of kids learn to read.ĭr. Seuss charmed his way into the consciousness of four generations of youngsters and parents. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained and delighted.'īrilliant, playful, and always respectful of children, Dr. 'A person’s a person, no matter how small,' Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Thank you, thank you, Sam-I-am!'įor nearly fifty years, Green Eggs and Ham has delighted young and old with its wildly imaginative simplicity - all the while, introducing generations of children to the joy of reading.

SAY! The old sourpuss's face is wreathed in smiles as he gratefully acknowledges, 'I do so like green eggs and ham. A crowd of open-mouthed onlookers watch in suspense as the old grouch takes a bite.

No matter how Sam-I-am presents the green eggs and ham (in a box, with a fox, in the rain, on a train), the curmudgeon refuses to try them.įinally, Sam-I-am's pesky persistence pays off.

Sam-I-am won't give up! He keeps trying to get the grumpy grown-up in the story to taste green eggs and ham. Seuss turns 50 simple words into magic in this time-honored classic. How do you like your green eggs and ham? In a house with a mouse? Or maybe on a boat with a goat? Beginning readers are offered these ingenious choices, and so much more, courtesy of the ever-enthusiastic Sam-I-am.ĭr.

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