Show Though a raconteur with fiiends he was a pri- favorite-s-Yertk the Horde and Other vate man: Geisel shied from the limelight and Stories in 1958 both Green Egg and worked alone in a tower at his home in La Jolla Ham 2nd One Fish Two Ftsb Red Fish Calif “When he had a new idea he would kind of fikeHAin I960 and Hop on ftp three scuffle to wherever I was" says his widow Audrey yean after that “and he’d say I’ve got it I’ve got it’ I never asked Most readers probably had little him what ‘it1 was because he wouldn’t tell me” idea that the good doctor wu on his Sometimes an idea came first at other times a fourth career when his famous cat sketch "He was leaning back in his swhel chair holddebuted As an ad man in the ’30s he which the first the was Horton on conjuiedacampaignfor ing tracing paper placed” Audrey explains Tie held it up to the win- - an insecticide Its and there wasalowelypine outside And he saw ganQuickl Henry the theridiculosityofthe elephant Horton sitting in Flitl became a national the tree That’s how Horton hatched the egg” catchphrase During Worid Warn WHERE DOES SUCH GENIUS he jcaned an Army FROM The son of a Springfield forks supers paganda unit headed by AbewlafclNs and zookeeper TedGeisel attended film director Frank Capca and won ' the first of his three Oscars And "the city’s public schools then Prohibition-er- a tamp wH be on Mvdi2 imad Dartmouth College where he was caught drinking he spent two ye&rs drawing editoAudrey GoMCO and booted fromacampus magazine He rial cartoons for the culptor LarfcGrey bu’reoffto New York daiily PM snudt bock into print using his middle and San Edward Great Places! winning acclaim for name (and mother's maiden name): Seuss Kaimady in ' After his attacks fiadsm on graduating in 1925 Geisel atToday is your tended Bntain’s Oxford Unhenity While and America’s prewar isolationism day! Your hilled Geisel returned to social commenAtlantic the he his was crossing by mountain is ship’s engines He later recalled their tary in his children’s books for few were waiting Soget withoutamotaL Yerdetbeliadevman rhythm in the verse ofhis first book And wVxnk lbat I Saw It on Mulberry Street allegory on totalitarianism The home on your way!? for in and named 1937 conservation TbeSneettbei astteet published Ofc the Phew championed broached racial prejudice three blocks fiom his Springfield statue Yon'S Got “You almost sang the words” says "They all have a theme” Starr says “Goodness triumphs Bad people are put down And you Springfield newspaper executive David Geisel’s instruwas friend who can find km book after book after book There Starr a of was a ntimi to Seuss apd thenalvetf is that you mental in establishing the Dr Seuss Nation alMemoriaL “Parents when they’re reading it are really think that people are good and that the world themselves caught up in that cadence”: can be improved He was an optimist” A conspinuortoa Before 7leCMS&r Hat strolled Dr Seuss burst into America’s consciousness in 1957wkh7lCrfmrivHIn onto the scene children’s literature often featured characters such as Dick andjane stars ofa popular other successioncame quick - slo-do- w ' ‘ : PARAM FiaaiiABT IS 2004 i PAM I iiiiin Help celebrata the birthday of Dr Sauss on March 2 by taldng part In Raid Across America “the nation's biggest reading party" which wfll honor the author with events around the country You also can join Audrey Geisel for the festivities at The Theodor Seuss Geisel Ubrary at UC San Diega Or visit “The Art of Dr Seuss" exhibit at the Springfield Museum To find out more about these and other activities honoring Dr Sausa visit wwwperadecom on the Web : rr reading scries who were trapped in impossibly square lives The child characters in 7be Cot mrf Ha were built mote like Seuss1 readers— intelligent and imperfect prone to rempeariore They felt familiar thrills and fears reveled in anarchy and mulled the adult- - prescribed consequences oftheir errant ways As for young readers their chests tighten with anxiety as the Cat and his apprentice Things dear the house co pieces They lamentthat Sally and the boy will get into big trouble when Mom gets home And swept up in continued |