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Fun Facts about Dr. Seuss
- Dr Seuss’s real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel but his friends
and family called him ‘Ted’.
- Theodor Seuss Geisel was born on 2 March 1904 in Springfield,
Massachusetts.
- Ted worked as a cartoonist and then in advertising in the 1930s
and 1940s but started contributing weekly political cartoons to a
magazine called PM as the war approached.
- The first book that was both written and illustrated by Theodor
Seuss Geisel was And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.
The book was rejected 27 times before being published in 1937.
- The Cat in the Hat was written as a result of a 1954 report
published in Life magazine about illiteracy among school children.
A text-book editor at a publishing company was concerned about
the report and commissioned Ted to write a book which would
appeal to children learning to read, using only 250 words given to
him by the editor.
- Ted was fascinated by research into how babies develop in the
womb and whether they can hear and respond to the voices of
their parents. He was delighted to find that The Cat in the Hat had
been chosen by researchers to be read by parents to their babies
while the babies were still in utero.
- Writing as Dr Seuss, Theodor Seuss Geisel wrote and illustrated
44 children's books. and These books have been translated into
more than 15 languages and have sold over 200 million copies
around the world.
And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street (1937)
The 500 Hats Of Bartholomew Cubbins (1938)
The King's Stilts (1939)
Horton Hatches the Egg (1940)
McElligot's Pool (1947)
Thidwick The Big-Hearted Moose (1948)
Bartholomew And The Oobleck (1949)
If I Ran the Zoo (1950)
Scrambled Eggs Super! (1953)
Horton Hears A Who! (1954)
On Beyond Zebra (1955)
If I Ran The Circus (1956)
The Cat in the Hat (1957)
How The Grinch Stole Christmas (1957)
Yertle The Turtle And Other Stories (1958)
The Cat In The Hat Comes Back! (1958)
Happy Birthday To You! (1959)
Complete List of Dr Seuss Books
Great Day For Up (1974)
There's a Wocket in my Pocket! (1974)
Oh, The Thinks You Can Think! (1975)
I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! (1978)
Oh Say Can You Say? (1979)
Hunches In Bunches (1982)
The Butter Battle Book (1984)
You're Only Old Once! (1986)
I am Not Going to Get Up Today (1987)
Oh, The Places You'll Go! (1990)
You might read in other places that there are many more
than just the 44 books on this list of Dr Seuss books.
This is true, in a way, because Dr Seuss did write more books which were illustrated by other people.
Other books which are published as Dr Seuss books were actually written after his death by other people, based on Dr Seuss's own notes and drawings.
Dr Seuss, whose real name was Ted Geisel, died in 1991. The following books were published after his death:
Daisy-Head Mayzie (1994) was written after Ted's death, based on his sketches and notes.
My Many Colored Days (1996) was written by Dr Seuss in 1973, well before he died. For some reason (I haven't been able to find out why) it was only published for the first time after his death.
Hooray For Diffendoofer Day! (1998) was written after Ted's death, based on his sketches and notes.
