The Sour Kangaroo, her child, and the Wickersham Brothers also appear in The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, as well as Horton himself and his son Morton the Elephant-Bird from Horton Hatches the Egg.

Seuss himself called the short the most faithful adaptation of his work.

It was Seuss's first children's book, originally titled " A Story That No One Can Beat ," the manuscript was rejected by over 43 publishing companies ( precise numbers vary, even from Seuss himself, who counted 27 and 28 ) but was eventually published by Vanguard Press.

Seuss Landing is specially geared towards small children and is based on the works of author Dr. Seuss.

The small play area is located inside the area of the park known as Seuss Landing, and is themed in the Seussean way Dr. Seuss is famous for.

* Theodor Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss, wrote the well-known children's book Green Eggs and Ham using only 50 different words on a 50 dollar bet with Bennet Cerf.

Why should primers not have pictures that widen rather than narrow the associative richness the children give to the words they illustrate — drawings like those of the wonderfully imaginative geniuses among children ’ s illustrators, Tenniel, Howard Pyle, " Seuss ", Walt Disney?

Nine months later Dr. Seuss finished The Cat in the Hat, which used 223 words that appeared on the list plus 13 words that did not.

In an interview he gave in Arizona magazine in June 1981, Dr. Seuss claimed the book took nine months to complete due to the difficulty in writing a book from the 223 selected words.

The vocabulary of the text consists of just fifty different words and was the result of a bet between Seuss and Bennett Cerf ( Dr. Seuss's publisher ) that Seuss ( after completing The Cat in the Hat using 225 words ) could not complete an entire book using so few words.

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss comes close, averaging 5. 7 words per sentence and 1. 02 syllables per word, with a grade level of − 1. 3.

The text was excerpted by cartoonist Greg Williams from the Wikipedia article Dr. Seuss.

* Dr Seuss cartoons from WW2

They include the Newbery Medal for writing, Michael L. Printz Award for writing for teens, Caldecott Medal for illustration, Golden Kite Award in various categories from the SCBWI, Sibert Medal for informational, Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for beginning readers, Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for impact over time, Batchelder Award for works in translation, Coretta Scott King Award for work by an African-American writer, and the Belpre Medal for work by a Latino writer.

It was adapted by Phil Eastman and Bill Scott from a story by Dr. Seuss, directed by Robert Cannon, and produced by John Hubley.

This distinction was celebrated on Nov. 15, 2000, when a packed high school stadium read aloud from Dr. Seuss ’ The Cat in the Hat, as a Cat in the Hat balloon swayed overhead.

Some books by Dr. Seuss contain many lines written in amphibrachs, such as these from If I Ran the Circus:

Winchell provided the voices of Sam-I-Am and his unnamed friend in Green Eggs and Ham from the animated television special Dr. Seuss on the Loose in 1973.

Ravenscroft was also known, however uncredited, as the vocalist for the song " You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch " from the classic Christmas television special, Dr. Seuss ' How the Grinch Stole Christmas !.

It also features characters and scenarios from many other Seuss books, including the Butter Side Uppers / Downers from The Butter Battle Book, Gertrude McFuzz, and, in addition to a music number based on its original story, The Cat in the Hat also acts as " your host and MC " – sometimes being an outside observer, a narrator and devil's advocate throughout the show, briefly leaping into the action on several occasions to create conflict and keep the story moving.

Such instances include: several of the Wolves carrying weapons that resemble lightsabers and a " messenger robot " similar in demeanor to the android C-3PO from the Star Wars movies, with the look of an Isaac Asimov robot ; the Wolves themselves seeming to bear a physical resemblance to Doctor Doom from the Marvel Comics comic books, and flying grenades named " sneetches " that are stated as being from the " Harry Potter " product line ( a direct reference to the Golden Snitch from the J. K. Rowling books, and to the Dr. Seuss characters ).

One episode could resemble a book by Dr. Seuss when the next could involve Jack fleeing from a Demonic Horde.

Conried's inimitable growl and impeccable diction were perfectly suited to the roles he played, whether portraying the dim Professor Kopokin in the radio show My Friend Irma or portraying comic villains and other mock-sinister or cranky types, such as Captain Hook ( and Mr. Darling ) in Walt Disney's Peter Pan and The Grinch / Narrator from Dr. Seuss ' Halloween is Grinch Night.

The title character from the Dr. Seuss story " The Glunk That Got Thunk " is a tulpa.

* Chemical Seuss, from benmarcus. com

Trees and sculptures are decorated to look like various scenes and characters, including many from the works of Springfield native Dr. Seuss.

It is notable for its use of live puppets with digitally animated backgrounds, and in its first season, for refashioning characters and themes from the original Dr. Seuss books into new stories that often retained much of the flavor of Dr. Seuss's own works.

It derives its name from wubble, a type of unicycle mentioned in the Dr. Seuss book I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew.

A National Review article finds it plausible that the rejection of the book stemmed from Seuss ' promotion of a theme of " moral equivalence ," where the difference between the Soviet Union and the United States was equivalent to a disagreement over the proper side on which to butter bread, presumably in addition to the theme of the arms race and mutually assured destruction.

With the series of Beginner Books that The Cat inaugurated, Seuss promoted both his name and the cause of elementary literacy in the United States of America.

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.

Although the books are designed to entertain young children, they are not intended as " early readers ", as are, for example, the " Cat in the Hat " books by Doctor Seuss which have a very basic and largely phonic vocabulary.

On the children's list, Green Eggs and Ham was ranked third, just above another Dr. Seuss book, The Cat in the Hat ; teachers ranked it fourth.

'" He then carried forward his analogy hoping the impasse would be straightened out for " If you go back and read Dr. Seuss, the cat manages to clean up the mess.

In 1951, UPA scored another hit with Gerald McBoing-Boing, based on a story by Dr. Seuss.

His most famous special was How the Grinch Stole Christmas !, a 1966 CBS adaptation of the Dr. Seuss story that still remains popular and has been released on video and DVD several times.

The Berenstains ' first bear story, titled Freddy Bear's Spanking, arrived on the desk of Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, who had found phenomenal success in 1957 with The Cat in the Hat and was now editor of a Random House series called " Beginner Books ".

Peet eventually became known as a member of the children's story book triumvirate, including Maurice Sendak and Dr. Seuss.

Instead, they sketched and wrote additional ideas for the cartoon in Clampett's copy of Seuss ' book ( there is no story credit for this cartoon's original credits ).

The 5, 000 Fingers of Dr. T. ( 1953 ) is a musical fantasy film, the only feature film ever written by Theodor Seuss Geisel ( Dr. Seuss ), who was responsible for the story, screenplay and lyrics.

Each episode is a self contained story based on Dr. Seuss characters such as Yertle the Turtle and Horton the Elephant.

The Butter Battle Book is a rhyming story written by Dr. Seuss.

and Other Stories ( ISBN 0-394-80094-X ) is a children's story book written by Dr. Seuss and first published in 1969.

* The Cat In The Hat is a dark ride that takes guests through the Dr. Seuss story of the same name.

Dr. Seuss wrote the story as a commentary about how he felt adults stifled children's imaginations.

Though Seuss made a point of not beginning the writing of his stories with a moral in mind, stating that " kids can see a moral coming a mile off ", he was not against writing about issues ; he said " there's an inherent moral in any story " and remarked that he was " subversive as hell ".

The story was also turned into a dance number in the 1994 film In Search of Dr. Seuss.

The Grinch first appeared in the 1957 story How the Grinch Stole Christmas, written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss, published as both a Random House book and in an issue of Redbook magazine.