February 29, 2024 • 12 mins
Join us as we explore the timeless tales and colorful characters created by the beloved children's author. From the mischievous Cat in the Hat to the heartwarming Horton the Elephant, Dr. Seuss's stories continue to enchant readers of all ages with their clever rhymes and timeless messages. Delve into the life and legacy of Theodor Seuss Geisel, uncovering the inspiration behind his iconic stories and illustrations. Whether you're a lifelong fan or discovering Dr. Seuss for the first time, prepare to be delighted by the magic of his imagination!
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
I do not like green eggs and ham. I do
not like them, Sam, I am. Have you ever heard
this rhyme before? It is one of the most famous
rhymes in the whole world. It was written by a
man named doctor Seuss, but he didn't write it because
he was inspired. He wrote it on a dare from
(00:29):
his boss that he could not write a book using
only fifty words. Doctor Seuss took on that challenge and
wrote what became one of the most famous books, Green
Eggs and ham. Doctor Seuss was a dreamer and a poet,
and he got started as a young child in Massachusetts,
(00:49):
where his parents inspired him with the love of being
creative and making silly rhymes. Doctor Seuss's real name was
Theodre yor Seuss Geisel, and he was born on March second,
nineteen oh four. His dad was a successful brewmaster, making
drinks that he sold in and around the state. His
(01:12):
mom stayed home and took care of little Theodore. She
liked to make up funny rhymes and would entertain him
by making funny poems about pie flavors. After the brewery closed,
Theodore's father began running the local zoo in his hometown.
Theodore liked to visit his dad at work, and when
(01:33):
he got home, he would try to draw the animals
he saw on his walls. Theodor took his first art
class in high school and liked to draw cartoons. Another
funny thing about his childhood was that his dad liked
to dream up complicated inventions in his spare time. One
of them he called a silk stocking backseam wrong detecting mirror,
(01:56):
who was the kind of funny riding inventing a drawing
that would later help make Doctor Seuss's book so popular.
At age eighteen, Theodore left home to attend Dartmouth College,
where he became the editor of its comedy magazine, Jack o' Lantern.
An editor is someone who is in charge of what
pictures and stories go into a newspaper or a magazine. However,
(02:21):
doctor Seuss got in trouble in college for breaking one
of the rules. His punishment was that he wasn't allowed
to work for the magazine. That was when he decided
to start using a fake name in his writing. He
started to send in comics and publish them under a
pseudonym SEUs. A pseudonym is a fake name that authors
(02:42):
used to hide their identity. Doctor Seuss added the word
doctor in front of his pseudonym because his father always
wanted him to become a doctor. At college. After he
finished his degree, Theodore moved to England to train to
be be I'm a professor. A professor is someone who
(03:03):
teaches and does research at a university or college. However,
after taking this program for a while, he decided this
was not the right career for him. He met his
future wife, Helen Palmer, when they were both at college.
She was studying English. They decided to get married and
they moved back to the United States in that same year,
(03:25):
nineteen twenty seven. Back in the United States, doctor Seuss
and Helen moved to an apartment in New York City
and he started to work as a cartoonist. A cartoonist
is someone who draws pictures for comics and movies and commercials.
He had his articles and pictures published in many magazines,
(03:46):
including Life and Vanity Fair, which are very famous magazines.
People like doctor Seuss's comics so much that he was
hired to a full time position making his comics and
pictures for a newspaper. Doctor Seuss next worked for an
advertising company where he worked for the next fifteen years
(04:07):
making cartoons for ads. One of his ads became famous
across the whole country. It was an ad for bug Spray,
involving a catchphrase that said quick Henry the flit. People
thought that punchline was so funny that the same ad
characters were used for the company for seventeen years. Even
(04:29):
though he was very busy with these projects, Doctor Seuss
also worked from home trying pictures for other people's children's books.
He began creating children books on his own because it
was one of the few creative projects in his job
in advertising allowed him to do. He also wrote for
children because he loved kids and wanted to help them
(04:52):
learn to read. Although he loved kids, doctor Seuss and
his wife were not able to have children. This made
doctor SEUs sad, and some of his books are dedicated
to fake children that he wished were his own. Doctor
Seuss published his first children's book in nineteen thirty seven.
(05:13):
Publish means when someone makes a book so it can
be sold to others. His first book was called and
to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. It
was rejected twenty seven times before it was finally published.
At the start of World War II, doctor Seuss began
(05:34):
making weekly political cartoons and submitting them to magazines. In
nineteen forty two, when many American men joined the army
and went to fight in the war, Doctor Seuss was
too old to fight, so instead he worked making cartoon
training movies and drawing pictures for army advertisements. At this time,
(05:56):
he moved to California, and that was where the training
movies he worked on were made. Doctor Seuss lived in
California for the rest of his life. After the war
was over, doctor Seuss and Helen bought an old observation
tower in La Jolla, California, and turned it into a home.
An observation tower is a tall building used to view
(06:18):
events and views from a long distance. It is usually
at least twenty feet tall and is made of brick
or stone. In his tall home, doctor Seuss created a
writing space, and he would write for at least eight
hours a day, taking breaks to take care of his garden.
Doctor Seuss wrote and threw out between five hundred to
(06:41):
one thousand pages during the first draft of a picture book.
Doctor Seuss's phone number was one digit off from the
local fish store at the time to be funny. When
someone called his house accidentally looking for the fish store,
doctor SEUs would sometime send the caller a drawing of
(07:01):
the fish they ordered, instead of telling them to hang
up and call the right number of the fish store.
His funny style, using simple words and funny rhyming, became
very popular with his readers. He wrote a lot of
very famous books, including The Cat and the Hat and
(07:24):
Green Eggs and Ham. His rhymes and characters were loved
by many people, and many children learned to read better
by reading his books. Doctor Seuss wrote over sixty books,
and some of them were even turned into movies, including
How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Cat and the Hat,
(07:44):
and the Loraxe. After doctor Seuss published How the Grinch
Stole Christmas, he got himself a license plate for his
car that said Grinch. Have you read this book or
seen this movie? It is about the Who's who lived
down in Whoville and like Christmas a lot, but the Grinch,
who lived just north of Whoville did not. This story
(08:06):
from nineteen fifty seven is about how the Who's teach
the Grinch to love the spirit of Christmas and teaches
us all about the importance of doing good deeds. It
was made into a movie in nineteen sixty six and
is still one of the most popular Christmas shows. Some
of doctor Seuss's other books that you may have read
(08:27):
include One Fish, Two Fish, Redfish, Bluefish, Horton hears a Who,
and Fox and Socks. Doctor Seuss's wife ran the business
side of his book publishing company during their life together. Unfortunately,
she died in nineteen sixty seven. Doctor Seuss married again,
(08:49):
this time to a woman named Audrey, who was a
film producer. A film producer is someone who makes movies,
and Audrey later helped make some of doctor Seuss's books
into movies, include The Loris and Horton hears a Who.
Doctor Seuss won many awards for his books, including a
(09:10):
Pulitzer Prize in nineteen eighty four and an Academy Award.
The Pulitzer Prize was given to him for his special
contribution over nearly half a century to the education and
enjoyment of America's children and their parents. He was the
first person to win the Pulitzer Prize for writing children's books.
(09:32):
Throughout his career, cartoonist and writer, Doctor Seuss published over
sixty books One of the most famous quotes from his
book says, the more that you read, the more things
you will know. The more that you learn, the more
places you'll go. It is important to always read as
much as you can. Doctor Seuss learned to be a
(09:53):
good writer and to make funny stories and pictures from
his love of reading and drawing when he was a child,
and the children around the world to be inspired to
love reading the way that he did. So he made
books that he thought they would find funny and would
be easy for them to read. In nineteen ninety one,
(10:15):
when doctor Seuss was eighty seven years old, he died
in La Jolla, California. Today, his books are still extremely
popular and his drawings and artwork hang in galleries around
the world, next to some of the most famous painters
of all time. Doctor Seuss had great success in life
because he was very dedicated to his writing and drawing.
(10:37):
Dedicated means to be focused on something important to you
and to work very hard at it. Doctor Seuss also
showed a lot of resilience. Even though his first book
was rejected twenty seven times, he continued to try and
try again to get it published until it eventually was successful.
Doctor Seuss was also not afraid to be himself. His
(10:59):
writing was fun and different than what other people were
writing at the time, but he continued to be himself
and let his personality shine, and that led to his
great success in storytelling. One of his books has a
great quote to remember about being yourself today. You are you.
That is truer than true. There is no one alive
(11:19):
who is youer than you. Think about the things that
make you special and that you enjoy. Do you like
riding or drying? Do you like making funny stories, comics,
telling jokes or rhymes. There are many ways to be creative,
and all of them can be equally fun. The important
thing is to find creative hobbies that you enjoy, and
(11:41):
if there's something you would like to be good at,
to practice as much as you can. By practicing, you
can get better and better at what you do, and
it is how all great art is made. You can
be and do whatever creative thing you like, if you
just put your mind to it and keep practicing.
I do not like green eggs and ham. I do
not like them, Sam, I am. Have you ever heard
this rhyme before? It is one of the most famous
rhymes in the whole world. It was written by a
man named doctor Seuss, but he didn't write it because
he was inspired. He wrote it on a dare from
(00:29):
his boss that he could not write a book using
only fifty words. Doctor Seuss took on that challenge and
wrote what became one of the most famous books, Green
Eggs and ham. Doctor Seuss was a dreamer and a poet,
and he got started as a young child in Massachusetts,
(00:49):
where his parents inspired him with the love of being
creative and making silly rhymes. Doctor Seuss's real name was
Theodre yor Seuss Geisel, and he was born on March second,
nineteen oh four. His dad was a successful brewmaster, making
drinks that he sold in and around the state. His
(01:12):
mom stayed home and took care of little Theodore. She
liked to make up funny rhymes and would entertain him
by making funny poems about pie flavors. After the brewery closed,
Theodore's father began running the local zoo in his hometown.
Theodore liked to visit his dad at work, and when
(01:33):
he got home, he would try to draw the animals
he saw on his walls. Theodor took his first art
class in high school and liked to draw cartoons. Another
funny thing about his childhood was that his dad liked
to dream up complicated inventions in his spare time. One
of them he called a silk stocking backseam wrong detecting mirror,
(01:56):
who was the kind of funny riding inventing a drawing
that would later help make Doctor Seuss's book so popular.
At age eighteen, Theodore left home to attend Dartmouth College,
where he became the editor of its comedy magazine, Jack o' Lantern.
An editor is someone who is in charge of what
pictures and stories go into a newspaper or a magazine. However,
(02:21):
doctor Seuss got in trouble in college for breaking one
of the rules. His punishment was that he wasn't allowed
to work for the magazine. That was when he decided
to start using a fake name in his writing. He
started to send in comics and publish them under a
pseudonym SEUs. A pseudonym is a fake name that authors
(02:42):
used to hide their identity. Doctor Seuss added the word
doctor in front of his pseudonym because his father always
wanted him to become a doctor. At college. After he
finished his degree, Theodore moved to England to train to
be be I'm a professor. A professor is someone who
(03:03):
teaches and does research at a university or college. However,
after taking this program for a while, he decided this
was not the right career for him. He met his
future wife, Helen Palmer, when they were both at college.
She was studying English. They decided to get married and
they moved back to the United States in that same year,
(03:25):
nineteen twenty seven. Back in the United States, doctor Seuss
and Helen moved to an apartment in New York City
and he started to work as a cartoonist. A cartoonist
is someone who draws pictures for comics and movies and commercials.
He had his articles and pictures published in many magazines,
(03:46):
including Life and Vanity Fair, which are very famous magazines.
People like doctor Seuss's comics so much that he was
hired to a full time position making his comics and
pictures for a newspaper. Doctor Seuss next worked for an
advertising company where he worked for the next fifteen years
(04:07):
making cartoons for ads. One of his ads became famous
across the whole country. It was an ad for bug Spray,
involving a catchphrase that said quick Henry the flit. People
thought that punchline was so funny that the same ad
characters were used for the company for seventeen years. Even
(04:29):
though he was very busy with these projects, Doctor Seuss
also worked from home trying pictures for other people's children's books.
He began creating children books on his own because it
was one of the few creative projects in his job
in advertising allowed him to do. He also wrote for
children because he loved kids and wanted to help them
(04:52):
learn to read. Although he loved kids, doctor Seuss and
his wife were not able to have children. This made
doctor SEUs sad, and some of his books are dedicated
to fake children that he wished were his own. Doctor
Seuss published his first children's book in nineteen thirty seven.
(05:13):
Publish means when someone makes a book so it can
be sold to others. His first book was called and
to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. It
was rejected twenty seven times before it was finally published.
At the start of World War II, doctor Seuss began
(05:34):
making weekly political cartoons and submitting them to magazines. In
nineteen forty two, when many American men joined the army
and went to fight in the war, Doctor Seuss was
too old to fight, so instead he worked making cartoon
training movies and drawing pictures for army advertisements. At this time,
(05:56):
he moved to California, and that was where the training
movies he worked on were made. Doctor Seuss lived in
California for the rest of his life. After the war
was over, doctor Seuss and Helen bought an old observation
tower in La Jolla, California, and turned it into a home.
An observation tower is a tall building used to view
(06:18):
events and views from a long distance. It is usually
at least twenty feet tall and is made of brick
or stone. In his tall home, doctor Seuss created a
writing space, and he would write for at least eight
hours a day, taking breaks to take care of his garden.
Doctor Seuss wrote and threw out between five hundred to
(06:41):
one thousand pages during the first draft of a picture book.
Doctor Seuss's phone number was one digit off from the
local fish store at the time to be funny. When
someone called his house accidentally looking for the fish store,
doctor SEUs would sometime send the caller a drawing of
(07:01):
the fish they ordered, instead of telling them to hang
up and call the right number of the fish store.
His funny style, using simple words and funny rhyming, became
very popular with his readers. He wrote a lot of
very famous books, including The Cat and the Hat and
(07:24):
Green Eggs and Ham. His rhymes and characters were loved
by many people, and many children learned to read better
by reading his books. Doctor Seuss wrote over sixty books,
and some of them were even turned into movies, including
How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Cat and the Hat,
(07:44):
and the Loraxe. After doctor Seuss published How the Grinch
Stole Christmas, he got himself a license plate for his
car that said Grinch. Have you read this book or
seen this movie? It is about the Who's who lived
down in Whoville and like Christmas a lot, but the Grinch,
who lived just north of Whoville did not. This story
(08:06):
from nineteen fifty seven is about how the Who's teach
the Grinch to love the spirit of Christmas and teaches
us all about the importance of doing good deeds. It
was made into a movie in nineteen sixty six and
is still one of the most popular Christmas shows. Some
of doctor Seuss's other books that you may have read
(08:27):
include One Fish, Two Fish, Redfish, Bluefish, Horton hears a Who,
and Fox and Socks. Doctor Seuss's wife ran the business
side of his book publishing company during their life together. Unfortunately,
she died in nineteen sixty seven. Doctor Seuss married again,
(08:49):
this time to a woman named Audrey, who was a
film producer. A film producer is someone who makes movies,
and Audrey later helped make some of doctor Seuss's books
into movies, include The Loris and Horton hears a Who.
Doctor Seuss won many awards for his books, including a
(09:10):
Pulitzer Prize in nineteen eighty four and an Academy Award.
The Pulitzer Prize was given to him for his special
contribution over nearly half a century to the education and
enjoyment of America's children and their parents. He was the
first person to win the Pulitzer Prize for writing children's books.
(09:32):
Throughout his career, cartoonist and writer, Doctor Seuss published over
sixty books One of the most famous quotes from his
book says, the more that you read, the more things
you will know. The more that you learn, the more
places you'll go. It is important to always read as
much as you can. Doctor Seuss learned to be a
(09:53):
good writer and to make funny stories and pictures from
his love of reading and drawing when he was a child,
and the children around the world to be inspired to
love reading the way that he did. So he made
books that he thought they would find funny and would
be easy for them to read. In nineteen ninety one,
(10:15):
when doctor Seuss was eighty seven years old, he died
in La Jolla, California. Today, his books are still extremely
popular and his drawings and artwork hang in galleries around
the world, next to some of the most famous painters
of all time. Doctor Seuss had great success in life
because he was very dedicated to his writing and drawing.
(10:37):
Dedicated means to be focused on something important to you
and to work very hard at it. Doctor Seuss also
showed a lot of resilience. Even though his first book
was rejected twenty seven times, he continued to try and
try again to get it published until it eventually was successful.
Doctor Seuss was also not afraid to be himself. His
(10:59):
writing was fun and different than what other people were
writing at the time, but he continued to be himself
and let his personality shine, and that led to his
great success in storytelling. One of his books has a
great quote to remember about being yourself today. You are you.
That is truer than true. There is no one alive
(11:19):
who is youer than you. Think about the things that
make you special and that you enjoy. Do you like
riding or drying? Do you like making funny stories, comics,
telling jokes or rhymes. There are many ways to be creative,
and all of them can be equally fun. The important
thing is to find creative hobbies that you enjoy, and
(11:41):
if there's something you would like to be good at,
to practice as much as you can. By practicing, you
can get better and better at what you do, and
it is how all great art is made. You can
be and do whatever creative thing you like, if you
just put your mind to it and keep practicing.
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