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“We looked then we saw him
step on the mat, we looked
and we saw The Cat In The
Hat.”
The Cat in the Hat
by Dr Seuss”
He developed a connection with his Mum’s
nursery rhymes and his hometown environment.
This inspired him to write kids’ books. When he
was a child it was hard for him because of WWI
and his Mum and Dad being German. After the
war his childhood became a happier time.
Theodor Seuss Geisel more
common known as Dr Seuss
was born in 1904 in Howard
Street, Springfield
Massachusetts in America.
During his time in Dartmouth College, he got caught drinking during the prohibition and had to use a pseudonym to write in a magazine. This was Dr Seuss. Theodor went to Oxford in England, meeting his first wife there. He was bored at Uni and dropped out touring Europe instead.
He got in to drawing cartoons for another author. This lead to his first book: And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street, followed by The Cat In The Hat which was the way he became famous. He wrote over 60 children books and some are turned into movies.
Dr Seuss won many awards including 2 Academy
Awards, 2 Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award and a
Pulitzer Prize. Dr Seuss is well remembered for his
achievements, eventually dying at the age of 87 in 1991.
His stories, however, will continue to delight children all
over the world.