Dr. Seuss

by Jill C. Wheeler, Rosemary Wallner (Editor)

Often an entertainer will capture a child's imagination and spark life-long interests. With this series, readers get to know favorite authors and entertainers. R.L. Stine, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Dr. Seuss, and others are profiled in these informative biographies.
-- Excellent resource for reports, research, and reference
-- Supports language, reading, and social studies curriculum
-- Large, easy-to-read text

32 pages, Library Binding

First published September 1, 1992

Reviews

[Barb Keltner · Rating 3 out of 5]

Getting ready to talk to my younger library classes about Dr. Seuss since his birthday is this week. I didn't realize that several of his books have very political messages; I'll have to remember to read "Lorax" to a class during Earth Week. He started writing children's books in the 1950's because children were having trouble learning to read -- in part because the books that were available to them were so boring; that was Dick and Jane time! He got a list of 250 words that were most important for first graders to learn to read and started writing -- always in rhyme! "Green Eggs and Ham" has only 50 words in it, written on a $50 bet from his publisher, Bennett Cerf -- who never paid up on the bet! This biography of him said he would receive 20,000 birthday cards from children each year so his Post Office grew to dread March 2 -- and the packages with things such as broken green eggs oozing out!

[Lisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was great. It really honored Theodor Geisel, "Dr. Seuss".

[Kylie Hodgson · Rating 4 out of 5]

This author did a great job creating a book that accurately represented his life in a way that is different from the previous biography that I read. In this biography the author tells his story chronologically and uses events in his personal life to outline the subsections. I personally enjoyed the pictures that the author chose to accompany the text. The pictures are big enough so that the children that are reading this book are able to really see them as they take up one to two pages of the text.

[Zenia Rivera]

For this biography it speaks about the life of the very famous Dr. Seuss. It talks about where he first started off, escalating from being a child who had a large imagination to a writer who had written the best children's literature. He had always been a lover of drawing ever since he was a kid, even in college he had studied at Oxford and majored in Literature and yet his job was drawing images for newspapers. Unfortunately he had suffered much rejection when it came to him trying to publish his own books, but that did not stop him as one of his friends had published it for him which had become a success. In this book it is revealed that many of his notable books are based on events that had happened in his life as well as trying to spread important messages. This story also talks about how his most popular books were written in the first place as well as how long it had taken him to write them. He had written and illustrated books because during the time kids did not enjoy reading due to the fact the books were very boring. Another thing is that many students were not learning the vocabulary as fast as they were supposed to. Dr. Seuss had changed the way children's literature was written from then on.

What I liked about this books was that it was extremely informative on Dr. Seuss' background on his books and what inspired him to write the stories that he did as well as what was going on in his life during that time. I loved the images provided to give a better visual insight on who he was and what his life was like. It also showed pictures of people he was associated with which is also very helpful because it give us an idea of who that person was instead of trying to figure out for ourselves who these people were in his life. I love Dr. Seuss books because of how much I loved reading them when I was a kid and even until this day there has not been another writer/ illustrator like him and I do not think that there ever will be. This book really made me see what kind of impact that he had in his lifetime and even after his lifetime. I know that his legacy will forever live on and children will remain loving and chis books just like I had when I was a kid.