![]() Thidwick (Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose)Ī bighearted moose who-at last-decides to put himself first. The Lorax speaks for the tree and the message is, “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. “My tricks are not bad,” said the Cat in the Hat. The Cat in the Hat (The Cat in the Hat, The Cat in the Hat Comes Back)Ī cat with house-wrecking tricks up his sleeves. An elephant’s faithful, one hundred percent!”ģ. “I meant what I said and I said what I meant. Horton the elephant (Horton Hears a Who, Horton Hatches an Egg) ![]() The Grinch (How the Grinch Stole Christmas)ĭo you hate Christmas? Not as much as the Grinch!Ģ. ![]() Geisel’s and Palmer’s story wasn’t a ‘happy ever after’ because by October 1967, Geisel was having an affair with the couple’s longtime friend Audrey Stone Dimond, and cancer-stricken Palmer decided to end the emotional pain caused by an affair by committing suicide. His works also won Geisel numerous awards, including a Pulitzer in 1984, three Emmys, three Grammys, and an Academy Award. Several of Geisel’s books were adapted into animated films during his lifetime and posthumously. The couple later returned to America and Geisel decided to become a full-time writer and cartoonist, working for several institutions including LIFE and Vanity Fair, Saturday Evening Post, the New York Weekly Judge, Standard Oil, and Viking Press, among others. Geisel married Helen Palmer, a lady he met while studying at Oxford. Geisel later attended the University of Oxford in England but he dropped out. (Image credit: Greg Williams on Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 2.5) While at Dartmouth College, he became the editor-in-chief of its humor magazine, Jack-O-Lantern which later dropped him after a drinking misdemeanor but managed to contribute to the magazine using the pseudonym “Seuss.” Dr Seuss cartoon. Seuss published over 60 books, the first of which was a children’s book called And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, which was published in 1937.Īs a young man, Geisel’s life had already started following a trajectory that’d eventually lead him to fame as a writer. Seuss was his pen name and it’s way more famous than his real name. His father’s name is Theodor Robert Geisel and his mother was Henrietta Seuss Geisel. Seuss was born Theodor Seuss Geisel on March 2, 1904, in Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S. Seuss’ 5 most memorable characters and the man who created them: Dr.
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