"on before his death. In 1989, the special was originally released as a VHS videocassette on the CBS/Fox Video label's Playhouse Video imprint. In the mid 1990s, it was later released as part of the ""Dr. Seuss Sing-Along Classics"" release from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment with CBS Video and Fox Kids Video. On October 7, 2003, it was later released on DVD by Universal Studios Home Entertainment. On June 26, 2012, Warner Home Video released the special on a special edition Blu-ray and DVD. Dr. Seuss on the Loose Dr. Seuss on the Loose (titled Green Eggs and Ham"
"as they set out on individual quests for ""horse truths"", which turn out to be well-known sayings involving horses. Seuss reportedly had misgivings about ""The Seven Lady Godivas"" before its publication; the drawing on the endpaper contains a small bucket of sap labeled ""Bennett Cerf,"" the name of Seuss's publisher at Random House. Seuss, by calling Cerf a sap, was apparently implying that Cerf was being too nice in allowing the book to be published. The initial 1939 publishing had a print run of 10,000 copies, but only around 2,500 sold. (One authority states that only 50 were sold.) Seuss"
"Beginner Books Beginner Books is the Random House imprint for young children ages 3–9, co-founded by Phyllis Cerf with Ted Geisel, more often known as Dr. Seuss, and his wife Helen Palmer Geisel. Their first book was Dr. Seuss's ""The Cat in the Hat"" (1957). Cerf compiled a list of 379 words as the basic vocabulary for young readers, along with another twenty slightly harder ""emergency"" words. No more than 200 words were taken from that list to write ""The Cat in the Hat"". Subsequent books in the series were modeled on the same requirement. Beginner Books had only four"
"'surely' in their minds instead of my having to say it."" The use of the word ""burp""—""plain little Mack did a plain little thing. ""He burped!""""—was also an issue before publication. According to Seuss, the publishers at Random House, including the president, had to meet to decide whether or not they could use ""burp"" because ""nobody had ever burped before on the pages of a children's book"". However, despite the publishers' initial worries, it eventually proved to be a hit—in 2001, ""Publishers Weekly"" reported that it was 125th on the list of best-selling hardcover children's books in the United States,"
"only $50 and Heinlein realized he could do better selling ""his"" 7,000-word unpublished story to ""Astounding Science Fiction"" for a penny a word, or $70. Years later, Bester interviewed Heinlein for ""Publishers Weekly"" and the latter told of changing his mind for ""Astounding"". Bester says that he replied (in jest), ""You sonofabitch. I won that ""Thrilling Wonder"" contest, and you beat me by twenty dollars."" However, as Bester was the winner of the contest, Mort Weisinger also ""introduced me to the informal luncheon gatherings of the working science fiction authors of the late thirties."" He met Henry Kuttner, Edmond Hamilton,"
"Dr. Seuss Theodor Seuss Geisel (; March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) was an American children's author, political cartoonist, poet, animator, screenwriter, filmmaker, and artist, best known for his work writing and illustrating more than 60 books under the pen name Doctor Seuss (abbreviated Dr. Seuss) (). His work includes many of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death. Geisel adopted the name ""Dr. Seuss"" as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College and as a graduate student at the University"
"one simple day. And he also says that there's one more left to go just before one's done: There he is, holding beneath his umbrella, in a thunderstorm when the raindrops start pouring, and when it stops, so does the storm. Oh Say Can You Say? Oh Say Can You Say? is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss, and published in 1979 by Random House. It is a collection of 25 tongue-twisters such as ""Oh my brothers! Oh my sisters! These are Terrible Tongue Twisters!"" It was Dr. Seuss's last beginner"
"Dr. Seuss Collection. Dr. Seuss bibliography Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, published over 60 children's books over the course of his long career. Though most were published under his well-known pseudonym, Dr. Seuss, he also authored over a dozen books as Theo. LeSieg and one as Rosetta Stone. As one of the most popular children's authors of all time, Geisel's books have topped many bestseller lists, sold over 222 million copies, and been translated into more than 15 languages. In 2000, when ""Publishers Weekly"" compiled their list of the best-selling children's books of all time; 16 of"
"of ""Redbook"" magazine. Dr. Seuss began work on ""How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"" a couple of years later, around the beginning of 1957. He had recently completed ""The Cat in the Hat"" and was in the midst of founding Beginner Books with Phyllis and Bennett Cerf and his wife, Helen Palmer Geisel. Helen, who had ongoing medical problems and had suffered a small stroke in April 1957, nevertheless acted as an unofficial editor, as she had with previous Dr. Seuss books. Dr. Seuss wrote the book quickly and was mostly finished with it within a few weeks. Biographers Judith and"
"Random House. It used as its logo a little house drawn by Cerf's friend and fellow Columbia alumnus Rockwell Kent. Cerf's talent in building and maintaining relationships brought contracts with such writers as William Faulkner, John O'Hara, Eugene O'Neill, James Michener, Truman Capote, Theodor Seuss Geisel, and others. He published ""Atlas Shrugged,"" written by Ayn Rand, even though he vehemently disagreed with her philosophy of Objectivism. He admired her ""sincerity"" and ""brillian[ce],"" and the two became lifelong friends. In 1933, Cerf won ""United States v. One Book Called Ulysses,"" a landmark court case against government censorship, and thereafter he published"
"Saw It on Mulberry Street"". It was immediately successful, and Seuss followed up with ""The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins"" in 1938, followed by ""The King's Stilts"" in 1939, and ""Horton Hatches the Egg"" in 1940, all published by Random House. From 1947 to 1956 Seuss had twelve children's picture books published. Dr. Seuss created ""The Cat in the Hat"" in reaction to a Life magazine article by John Hersey in lamenting the unrealistic children in school primers books. Seuss rigidly limited himself to a small set of words from an elementary school vocabulary list, then crafted a story based"
"Dr. Seuss bibliography Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, published over 60 children's books over the course of his long career. Though most were published under his well-known pseudonym, Dr. Seuss, he also authored over a dozen books as Theo. LeSieg and one as Rosetta Stone. As one of the most popular children's authors of all time, Geisel's books have topped many bestseller lists, sold over 222 million copies, and been translated into more than 15 languages. In 2000, when ""Publishers Weekly"" compiled their list of the best-selling children's books of all time; 16 of the top 100"
"If I Ran the Zoo If I Ran the Zoo is a children's book written by Dr. Seuss in 1950. The book is written in anapestic tetrameter, Seuss's usual verse type, and illustrated in Seuss's pen-and-ink style. It tells the story of a child named Gerald McGrew who, when visiting a zoo, finds that the exotic animals are ""not good enough"". He says that if he ran the zoo, he would let all of the current animals free and find new, more bizarre and exotic ones. Throughout the book he lists these creatures, starting with a lion with ten feet"
"moral and humor. Charlotte Jackson of the ""San Francisco Chronicle"" called the book ""wonderful fantasy, in the true Dr. Seuss manner, with pictures in the Christmas colors."" Some writers, including Dr. Seuss himself, have made a connection between the Grinch and Dr. Seuss. In the story, the Grinch laments that he has had to put up with the Whos' celebration of Christmas for 53 years. As both Thomas Fensch and Charles Cohen note, Dr. Seuss was 53 when he wrote and published the book. Dr. Seuss himself asserted the connection in an article in the December 1957 edition of ""Redbook"":"
"1992. If I Ran the Zoo If I Ran the Zoo is a children's book written by Dr. Seuss in 1950. The book is written in anapestic tetrameter, Seuss's usual verse type, and illustrated in Seuss's pen-and-ink style. It tells the story of a child named Gerald McGrew who, when visiting a zoo, finds that the exotic animals are ""not good enough"". He says that if he ran the zoo, he would let all of the current animals free and find new, more bizarre and exotic ones. Throughout the book he lists these creatures, starting with a lion with ten"
"I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories is a children's story book written by Dr. Seuss and first published in 1969. According to the inside cover, the stories concern The Cat in the Hat's son/childhood, daughter/sister, and great-great-grandfather. The title story concerns The Cat in the Hat's son/childhood, who brags that he can fight 30 tigers and win. He makes excuse after excuse, finally disqualifying all the tigers until he must fight no tigers at all. The illustrations are notable for their use of gouache and brush strokes rather"
"The Sneetches and Other Stories The Sneetches and Other Stories is a collection of stories by American author Dr. Seuss, published in 1953. It is composed of four separate stories with themes of tolerance, diversity, and compromise: ""The Sneetches"", ""The Zax"", ""Too Many Daves"", and ""What Was I Scared Of?"". Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association named the book one of its ""Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children."" In 2012 it was ranked number 63 among the ""Top 100 Picture Books"" in a survey published by ""School Library Journal"" – the fifth of five Dr. Seuss"
"a new thing to find in a Dr. Seuss book, but it doesn't much interfere with the hilarity with which he juggles an elephant up a tree. To an adult the tale seems a little forced compared to his first grand yarns, less inevitable in its nonsense, but neither young nor old are going to quibble with the fantastic comedy of his pictures."" The book also found early success with book buyers and the general public. It sold 6,000 copies in its first year and 1,600 in its second. Frances Chrystie, the juvenile buyer for FAO Schwarz, wrote to Bennett"
"himself called it his ""greatest failure"" and ""a book that nobody bought"". To another interviewer he said ""It was all full of naked women, and I can't draw convincing naked women. I put their knees in the wrong places."" It became one of only two Dr Seuss books, along with ""The Cat in the Hat Songbook"", to be allowed to go out of print. The remaining copies were remaindered in the chain of Schulte's Cigar Stores for twenty-five cents, though original editions now have been reported as selling at prices as high as $300. The book's initial failure has been"
"the International Spy Museum. According to a postwar study of the ""Snafu"" cartoons, the wartime experiences of authors Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), Philip D. Eastman, and Munro Leaf shaped their successful postwar children's books, especially the use of simple language, and some of the themes. Dr. Seuss wrote ""The Cat in the Hat"" (1957) because Geisel believed the widely used Dick and Jane primers were too boring to encourage children to read. Geisel, Eastman, and Leaf authored books designed to promote personal responsibility, conservation, and respect for multiculturalism, while teaching and accepting the reality of sex differences. Some racial characterisations"
"its entirety did not do so: [W]hilst in many places the effect of ""Ulysses"" on the reader undoubtedly is somewhat emetic, nowhere does it tend to be an aphrodisiac. Consequently, ""Ulysses"" was not obscene, and could be admitted into the United States. Within minutes of hearing of the decision, Bennett Cerf of Random House instructed the typesetters to start work on the book. One hundred copies were published in January 1934 to obtain U.S. copyright. This was the first legal publication of the work in any English-speaking nation. On the same day the judge released his decision the news was"
"In 1965, Hunt published a book called ""Bennett Cerf's Pop-Up Riddles"", which was sold as a product promotion for $1.00 and two Maxwell House coffee labels. Cerf was the president of Random House at the time, and by 1967, Hunt had 30 pop-up books in production for Random House. In the late 1960s, Hallmark bought Graphics International, and Hunt next founded Intervisual Books to produce pop-up and movable books. Hunt became known as the ""King of the Pop-Ups,"" and was considered by many to be ""the father of the modern pop-up book industry"" for his work in pioneering pop-up interactive"
"The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins is a children's book, written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and published by Vanguard Press in 1938. Unlike the majority of Geisel's books, it is written in prose rather than rhyming and metered verse. Geisel, who collected hats, got the idea for the story on a commuter train from New York to New England while he was sitting behind a businessman wearing a hat; the passenger was so stiff and formal that Geisel idly wondered what would happen if Geisel took his"
"Wacky Wednesday (book) Wacky Wednesday is a book for young readers, written by Dr. Seuss as Theo. LeSieg and illustrated by George Booth. It has forty-eight pages, and is based around a world of progressively wackier occurrences where kids can point out that there's a palm tree growing in the toilet, an earthworm chasing a bird, a plane flying backward, and a tiger chauffeur, as a few examples. The main character, a child, wakes up to find a shoe on the wall; then he looks up to find one on the ceiling as well. With each new page the number"
"of Dr. Seuss. Except for ""Great Day for Up!"", ""My Book about ME"" and ""I Am Not Going to Get Up Today!"", these books were illustrated and written by Geisel. Note only first edition information is given. Geisel also wrote several books that were posthumously published under his most recognizable pen name, Dr. Seuss. Geisel also authored several books under the pen name Theo. LeSieg (Geisel spelled backward) and one book under the name Rosetta Stone. These books were written but not illustrated by Geisel. While Geisel was most famous for his literary works, he helped write several propaganda films,"
"He stated that he would ""rather write for kids"", who were more appreciative, and was no longer interested in writing for adults. Indeed, his general contempt for adults is evident in his oft-repeated quote: ""Adults are obsolete children, and the hell with them."" When he eventually did publish a second book aimed at adults (""You're Only Old Once!"", in 1986), it was subtitled ""A Book for Obsolete Children"". The Seven Lady Godivas The Seven Lady Godivas: The True Facts Concerning History's Barest Family is a picture book of the tale of Lady Godiva, written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss. One"
"The Lorax The Lorax is a children's book written by Dr. Seuss and first published in 1971. It chronicles the plight of the environment and the Lorax, who speaks for the trees against the Once-ler. As in most Dr. Seuss works, most of the creatures mentioned are original to the book. The book is commonly recognized as a fable concerning the danger corporate greed poses to nature, using the literary element of personification to give life to industry as the Once-ler and the environment as the Lorax. ""The Lorax"" was Dr. Seuss's personal favorite of his books. He was able"
"Cat in the Hat"" is the book that made Dr. Seuss famous. Without ""The Cat"", Seuss would have remained a minor light in the history of children's literature."" Donald Pease concurs, writing, """"The Cat in the Hat"" is the classic in the archive of Dr. Seuss stories for which it serves as a cornerstone and a linchpin. Before writing it Geisel was better known for the 'Quick, Henry, the Flit!' ad campaign than for his nine children's books."" The publication and popularity of the book thrust Geisel into the center of the United States literacy debate, what Pease called ""the"
"Political messages of Dr. Seuss The political messages of Theodor Seuss Geisel, best known as Dr. Seuss, are found in many of his books. Geisel, a cartoonist and author for children, was also a liberal and a moralist who expressed his views in his books through the use of ridicule, satire, wordplay, nonsense words, and wild drawings to take aim at bullies, hypocrites, and demagogues. Geisel's political ideas can be found in books such as: ""The Lorax"", ""Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!"", ""The Cat in the Hat"", ""Horton Hears a Who!"", ""Yertle the Turtle"", ""The Sneetches"", and"
"Neil Morgan wrote, ""It was the easiest book of his career to write, except for its conclusion."" According to Dr. Seuss, ""I got hung up getting the Grinch out of the mess. I got into a situation where I sounded like a second-rate preacher or some biblical truism... Finally in desperation... without making any statement whatever, I showed the Grinch and the Whos together at the table, and made a pun of the Grinch carving the 'roast beast.' ... I had gone through thousands of religious choices, and then after three months it came out like that."" By mid-May 1957,"
"Oh Say Can You Say? Oh Say Can You Say? is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss, and published in 1979 by Random House. It is a collection of 25 tongue-twisters such as ""Oh my brothers! Oh my sisters! These are Terrible Tongue Twisters!"" It was Dr. Seuss's last beginner book. This book was also used in the Beginner Book Video Series along with ""Hop on Pop"" and ""Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!"". It was read by Miranda Richardson for HarperCollins along with ""Scrambled Eggs Super!"", ""Horton Hatches"
"On Beyond Zebra! On Beyond Zebra! is an illustrated children's book by Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. In this boundary-pushing take on the genre of alphabet book, Seuss presents, instead of the twenty-six letters of the conventional English alphabet, twenty more letters that purportedly follow them. The young narrator, not content with the confines of the ordinary alphabet, reports on additional letters beyond Z, with a fantastic creature corresponding to each new letter. For example, the letter ""FLOOB"" corresponds to the Floob-Boober-Bab-Boober-Bubs, which have large buoyant heads and float serenely in the water. In order, the letters, followed"
"Soon after her arrival, she was introduced by ""The New Yorker"" editor Harold Ross to publishing magnate and Random House co-founder (and future ""What's My Line?"" panelist) Bennett Cerf, whom she married on September 17, 1940. They had two sons, Christopher Cerf, an author and composer-lyricist who has contributed numerous songs to ""Sesame Street"", and Jonathan Cerf, the author of ""Big Bird's Red Book"" and the 1980 world champion of Othello, the board game. She wrote ""The ABC and Counting Book"", a children's book, and co-founded Beginner Books, which is the Random House imprint for young children, along with Ted"