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Home › Politics

Politics | 03/02/2009 10:10 am

wOw Celebrates Dr. Seuss's Birthday!

By The Staff at wowOwow.com
Google

It’s Dr. Seuss birthday today. If he were alive today, Suess, born Theodor Geisel, would be 105. Shame he’s not still with us!

By the time the good "doctor" died in 1991, at the age of 87, he had written and illustrated 44 children’s books including the classics Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat and How the Grinch Stole Christmas!.

The master children’s author never had children of his own.

Dr. Seuss will always be remembered for his imaginative use of rhyme and whimsical illustrations to make books fun for teaching young children basic reading skills.

In honor of his birthday, events across the country are being held encouraging young ones to read. Visit Seussville.com to find events near you. If you haven’t noticed yet, the search engine Google is celebrating the wise doctor’s birthday with their traditional logo modification. wowOwow is celebrating Dr. Seuss’s birthday by encouraging wOwers to recite their favorite Dr. Seuss work. We’ll start:

Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches / Had bellies with stars. / The Plain-Belly Sneetches / Had none upon thars. (From The Sneetches and Other Stories.)

 

 

 

Read more about: Books, Children, Culture, Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Literature, Seussville, The Cat in the Hat, Theodor Geisel

6 Reader Comments (so far…) Sign In or Register to comment

Barbara Pflughaupt

"I meant what I said and I said what I meant - an elephant’s faitful one hudred percent! " 

Can’t help it — one more please -

"A person’s a person no matter how small!"

By Barbara Pflughaupt on 03/02/2009 10:28 am
Murphy Mac

Barbara,

You took my favorite quote "A person’s a person no matter how small!"

My son loved One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. He still remembers it and he’s 29 now!

By Murphy Mac on 03/02/2009 7:33 pm
Barbara Pflughaupt
Ah.. Margaret — there are SO many that are truly wonderful :)!
By Barbara Pflughaupt on 03/03/2009 10:40 am
Sharyn Essman

"Sighed Maizie, a lazy bird hatching an egg: / ‘I’m tired, and I’m sore, and I’ve kinks in my leg / From sitting, just sitting here, day after day / It’s work.  How I hate it! / I’d much rather play. / If I could find someone to sit on my nest / I’d take a vacation — fly off for a rest. / If I could find someone, I’d fly away — free!’ / Then, Horton the elephant passed by her tree."

Thank you.  Thank you very much.

By Sharyn Essman on 03/02/2009 10:51 am
Belinda Joy
My favorite line from Dr. Seuss: Be who you are and say what you feel because… those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
By Belinda Joy on 03/02/2009 3:01 pm
Green Tears

To anyone who feels anxious about speaking in public: grab a copy of Fox in Socks and read aloud. After tripping over it a few times, you will have smiled, laughed and be able to read anything in front of anyone.

Please,sir. I don’t like this trick,sir.

My tongue isn’t quick or slick, sir.

I get all those ticks and clocks, sir,

mixed up with the chicks and tocks, sir.

By Green Tears on 03/02/2009 3:57 pm