Dr. Seuss Research Paper

Ciera Irvin
Mrs. Allen
4/29/12
English 9B

Dr. Seuss Research essay Did you know that Dr. Seuss books has been translated into more than 15 different languages and has sold over 200 million copies in the world? Theodor Seuss Geisel was born March 2, 1904 on Howard Street in Springfield, Massachusetts and died September 24, 1991. He graduated Dartmouth College in 1925 and went to Oxford University for a doctorate in literature. He began working on a magazine called Judge; it was a humor magazine in America after submitting the humorous articles he started submitting cartoons to life which gained noticed and led him to contract to draw comic ads for
Flit. It lasted 17 years it gained him national exposure then he came up with “And To Think I Saw It On mullberry Street.” Which was rejected by 28 publishers but then got published by his friend and it went on to modern success.
This essay is based on Dr. Seuss to inform the readers how his career of writing books started, What made him want to rhyme in all of his books, How he came up with the most selling book “The cat In The Hat”, What was his first book, and what inspired him to write it also how did he come up with a book with only 50 words. The pieces of evidence can be supported through his adult lifetime and careers he had. Dr. Seuss was an American writer, poet and cartoonist known for writing children books and published 46 children books characterized by imaginative characters and rhymes. He has 11 television cartoon specials, four feature films, a Broadway musical and four televisions series. His stories march forward at an incantatory, rhythmic pace, and are full of tongue-twisters, word play, and highly inventive vocabulary. He worked as a political cartoonist, an advertising illustrator, and a documentary filmmaker. Dr. Seuss most famous book was the “Cat and the hat” which is a story about two children who find themselves home alone which a hat wearing feline who is a study of bad behavior. With only 22 vocabulary words and much repetition. Dr. Seuss books began between the depression and the start of WWII Dr. Seuss began writing children’s. His first book “And To Think That I saw It On Mullberry Street” was rejected 28 times. Dr. Seuss drawled posters for the war department and in 1943 he joined the army becoming commander of the First Motion Picture unit of the Army Air Forces. After the war he returned to writing children books. William Spaulding handed a list to Dr. Seuss challenging him to write a book using 250 of the words that was on there to write a children’s book that would impossible to put down. He accepted the challenge and wrote the book “Cat In The Hat” using 238 words from Spaulding’s list. Dr Seuss is one of the most quoted authors in history. Dr.
Seuss created the book “The Cat In The Hat” on may 25, 1954 it all started when Spaulding gave Dr. Seuss a challenge to write a book with 225 words that every six year old should know. Nine months later he created the book The Cat In Hat using 223 words from the list and 13 words that wasn’t from the list. The story is 1629 words in length and uses a vocabulary of only 236 distinct words, 54 occurred once and 33 twice. He had an interview he gave in Arizona magazine in June 1981, Dr Seuss said that the book took nine months to complete because of the difficulty of writing a book from the 223 selected words. He also said that he made the title rhyme from the words that was also in the
list. Dr. Seuss rhymes in all of his books to catch the children attention so that the books can be even more fun to read it’s a creative idea to me for example, “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who'll decide where to go...” ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go! Another example of a creative rhyme is “I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!” Dr. Seuss has a lot of creative rhymes in his books. Publisher Bennette Cert bet Dr.
Seuss $50 that he couldn’t write a book with only 50 words and they all had to be different words. So Dr. Seuss created the book Green Eggs And Ham, that became a picture book classic but publisher Bennette Cert never paid up like he said he was. Green Eggs And Ham was marked the apex of Seuss’s minimalist-vocabulary period, and it was impressive also it was the fourth best-selling English-language children book of all time. The 50 are: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, and
you. In all Dr. Seuss wrote 44 books in his lifetime but now it’s over 200 million books from him his work have provided the source for eleven children’s television specials, and a Broadway musical and a feature-length motion picture. Many honors and awards were given to Dr. Seuss including an honorary doctorate of humane letters from his alma mater, Dartmouth. In addition to six other honorary doctorates.