Dr. Seuss by Sarah Lilly

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Dr. Seussby Sarah Lilly
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• One of the most famous authors of all times is
  Dr. Seuss.

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• Dr. Seuss was born in 1904. He died in 1991 when
  he was 87 years old. If he was still living, this
  year he would have 100 candles on his cake.

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• Dr. Seusss real name was Theodore Seuss Geisel.
  His friends called him Ted, or Mr. Geisel. Seuss
  was his middle name. The doctor part he made up!

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• The first book Dr. Seuss wrote was called And to
  Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street. Forty
  three different book companies rejected this
  book! Finally one of Mr. Geisels friends who
  was a book publisher decided to make it into a
  book.

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• The next books he wrote were, The 500 Hats of
  Bartholomew Cubbins, The Kings Stilts, and
  Bartholomew and the Oobleck.

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One day Dr. Seuss was sitting in his office with
the windows open. A breeze lifted a piece of
paper with an elephant sketched on it and laid it
down on another drawing of a tree. All I had to
do was figure out what that elephant was doing
in that tree. That story became
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• Dr. Seuss kept writing. He wrote McElligots
  Pool, Thidwick the BigHearted Moose, and How the
  Grinch Stole Christmas.

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• In 1950, a man named John Hersey studied how
  kids learn to read. He wrote a report about what
  he had learned. His report said that children
  were having a hard time learning to read because
  their books were boring!

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• One of Dr. Seusss friends read Mr. Herseys
  report. He called up Dr. Seuss and told him he
  should write a funny book with only a few easy
  words in it, for kids who were learning to read.
  It took Dr. Seuss nine months to write it and he
  used only 220 easy words. Everybody loved it!
  That book was

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• A friend said that Dr. Seuss couldnt write a
  book using 50 words or less, so he set out to
  prove him wrong. He did it and the book became
  very popular. Dr. Seuss said that, It was the
  only book I wrote that still makes me laugh. The
  book was

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• Another book Dr. Seuss wrote is called If I Ran
  the Zoo. He got the idea for this book from his
  father, who once was a zoo keeper.

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• Dr. Seuss is different from many writers because
  all of his books are written in rhyme. To make
  his rhymes, he would often make up new words,
  like the Sneetches, the Lorax, and
  Zizzer-zazzer-zuzz.

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• All together he wrote 44 different books. They
  have been published in 20 different languages,
  like French, German, Italian, Swedish, Swahili,
  Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. More than 100
  million copies have been sold all over the world.

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• In 1997, schools all over the United States chose
  March 2, Dr. Seusss birthday, as a day to
  celebrate reading. We want people to know that
  reading is important and lots of fun!

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Happy 100th Birthday Dr. Seuss!