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Yes, Dr Seuss was a real person though his name was Theodor Seuss Geisel and he was known as Ted. He wrote above 40 children's books and all of them stay preferred to this day since he produced reading this kind of exciting. His achievement is attributed to his managed use of vocabulary, straightforward text, humour, repetition, rhyme, his selection of words, imaginative illustrations and original characters. The books educate the capabilities that youthful readers need and inspire them to continue their studying journey.

Theodor Geisel 1st wrote underneath the title Seuss when he was a student at Dartmouth University. A celebration thrown by Ted and his close friends resulted in Ted becoming asked to give up all his extra-curricular activities. He was editor-in-Chief of the College's humor magazine at the time, so to continue to contribute to the Jack-o-Lantern with out the administration's expertise, he began signing his operate with the pen-name Seuss (which was his mother's maiden name as properly as his middle name).

Following Dartmouth, Ted went to Oxford and it was during 1 of his classes there that his doodling caught the eye of a fellow American student named Helen Palmer and she advised that he should become an artist alternatively of a professor. He located that he liked her suggestions and began to get the job done as a cartoonist. (He liked more than her advise since they later on married!)

Ted worked in marketing for 15 many years but was a common contributor to humour magazines, writing under the title Dr Seuss. With the arrival of World War II, Ted sought a commission with naval intelligence wherever he made animated movies related to the war hard work.

In the latter many years of the war, he started writing children's stories, starting with "And to Think That I Noticed it on Mulberry Street".

His turning point came when he was asked to write a children's primer making use of 220 new-reader vocabulary words. Though schools were reluctant to adopt "The Cat in the Hat" as an official primer, kids and adults showed no this kind of restraint and clamoured for copies.

The accomplishment of "The Cat in the Hat" elevated Dr Seuss from a pioneer in the area of writing and illustrating children's books to a respected authority, a position he has held ever because. His book "Green Eggs and Ham" came about when his publisher, Bennet Cerf wagered that he couldn't compose a book employing 50 words or much less! Cerf had the vision to see that Ted was going to turn the children's book world upside down and he developed Rookie Books. His romantic relationship with Dr Seuss as publisher and close pal lasted quite a few many years.

Ted, or Dr Seuss as we consider of him, enjoyed creating entertaining books that encouraged youngsters to read. However he was also concerned with moral and environmental issues and his book "The Lorax" has the theme of another person making a profitable small business for themselves at the cost of a purely natural resource and individuals who depended on it for their survival.

Ted loved humorous hats. He would put on them when he had writer's block and frequently also at dinner events at his house. If visitors did not arrive wearing 1, they have been loaned a single from Ted's assortment!

Dr Seuss received quite a few honors for his work, not least a Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, given to an writer or illustrator whose books have produced a significant contribution to and lasting influence on children's literature.

More than the program of his extended career, Ted Geisel wrote more than 40 books, generally underneath the name Dr Seuss, but over a dozen as Theo. LeSieg and one as Rosetta Stone. Nearly 30 of his Dr Seuss books have been adapted for tv or video.

At the time of his death in September 1991, 200 million copies of his books, translated into 15 distinct languages had been sold and product sales carry on to climb as children (and adults) the world above learn and re-learn his delightful tales and at the similar time study important lessons in tolerance because, regardless of their variations, all of his characters are portrayed as being just as essential as any other, as he says "A person's a man or woman, no matter how modest" (from Horton Hears a Who).

Thank you Theodor Seuss Geisel!