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Theodor Seuss Geisel
At work on a drawing of the grinch for "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (1957)
Born	March 2, 1904 Springfield, Massachusetts USA
Died	September 24, 1991 (aged 87) La Jolla, California, USA

Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) was a famous American writer and cartoonist best known for his classic children's books under the pen name Dr. Seuss, including The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. His books have become staples for many children and their parents. Seuss' trademarks were his rhyming text and his outlandish creatures. He wrote and illustrated 44 children's books.

1 Life and career
2 Poetic meters
3 Artwork
- 3.1 Recurring images
4 Adaptations of Seuss's work
5 Trivia
6 Best-Selling Books
7 List of books
- 7.1 Omnibus volumes
- 7.2 Writing as Theo. LeSieg
- 7.3 Writing as Rosetta Stone
8 Film, television, and theater adaptations
9 Further reading
10 Beginner books and audio cassettes
11 Footnotes
12 External links

Life and career

Theodor Seuss Geisel was born on March 2, 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts to Henrietta Seuss and Theodor P. Geisel.^[1] He also had two sisters. His father was a parks superintendent in charge of Forest Park (Springfield), a huge park that included within its borders a zoo and was located three blocks from a library. Both Geisel's father and grandfather were also brewmasters in Springfield, which may have influenced his views on Prohibition. As a freshman member of the Dartmouth College class of 1925, he joined the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern as his primary activity throughout college, eventually rising to the rank of editor-in-chief. (He took over the post from his close friend, author Norman MacLean.) However, after Geisel was caught throwing a drinking party (and thereby violating Prohibition), the school insisted that he resign from all extra-curricular activities. In order to continue his work on the Jack-O-Lantern without the administration's knowledge, Geisel began signing his work with the pen name "Seuss" (which was both his middle name and his mother's maiden name). His first work signed as "Dr. Seuss" appeared after he graduated, six months into his work for The Judge (a humor magazine). Being an immigrant from Germany, the name "Seuss" would have been pronounced "zoice", the standard pronunciation in German (according to census, Geisel's mother was born in Massachusetts, and it was her parents who were the immigrants). Alexander Liang, who served with Geisel on the staff of the Jack-O- Lantern and was later a professor at Dartmouth, illustrated this point.

Though Geisel himself has been quoted as saying "Seuss -- rhymes with voice", the name is almost universally pronounced in English with an initial s sound and rhyming with "juice".^[2] Geisel also used the pen name Theo. LeSieg (Geisel spelled backwards) for books he wrote but others illustrated.

He entered Lincoln College, Oxford, intending to earn a Ph.D in literature. At Oxford he met Helen Palmer Geisel, married her in 1927, and went to the United States without earning the degree. The "Dr." in his pen name is an acknowledgment of his father's unfulfilled hopes that Seuss would earn a doctorate at Oxford.

He began submitting humorous articles and illustrations to Judge, The Saturday Evening Post, Life, Vanity Fair, and Liberty. One notable "Technocracy Number" made fun of the Technocracy movement and featured satirical rhymes at the expense of Frederick Soddy. He became nationally famous from his advertisements for Flit, a common insecticide at the time. His slogan, "Quick, Henry, the Flit!" became a popular catchphrase. Geisel supported himself and his wife through the Great Depression by drawing advertising for General Electric, NBC, Standard Oil, and many other companies. He also wrote and drew a short-lived comic strip called Hejji in 1935.

In 1937, while Seuss was returning from an ocean voyage to Europe, the rhythm of the ship's engines inspired the poem that became his first book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. Seuss wrote three more children's books before World War II (see list of works below), two of which are, atypically for him, in prose.

As World War II began, Dr. Seuss turned to political cartoons, drawing over 400 in two years as editorial cartoonist for the left-wing New York City daily newspaper, PM. Dr. Seuss's political cartoons, later published in Dr. Seuss Goes to War, opposed the viciousness of Hitler and Mussolini and were highly critical of isolationists, most notably Charles Lindbergh, who opposed American entry into the war. Some cartoons depicted all Japanese Americans as latent traitors or fifth-columnists, while at the same time other cartoons deplored the racism at home against Jews and blacks that harmed the war effort. His cartoons were strongly supportive of President Roosevelt's conduct of the war, combining the usual exhortations to ration and contribute to the war effort with frequent attacks on Congress (especially the Republican Party), parts of the press (such as the New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune), and others for criticism of Roosevelt, criticism of aid to the Soviet Union, investigation of suspected Communists, and other offenses that he depicted as leading to disunity and helping the Nazis, intentionally or inadvertently. In 1942, Dr. Seuss turned his energies to direct support of the U.S. war effort. First, he worked drawing posters for the Treasury Department and the War Production Board. Then, in 1943, he joined the Army and was commander of the Animation Dept of the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces, where he wrote films that included Your Job in Germany, a 1945 propaganda film about peace in Europe after World War II, Design for Death, a study of Japanese culture that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1947, and the Private Snafu series of adult army training films. While in the Army, he was awarded the Legion of Merit. Dr. Seuss's non-military films from around this time were also well-received; Gerald McBoing-Boing won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Animated) in 1950.

Despite his numerous awards, Dr. Seuss never won the Caldecott Medal nor the Newbery. Three of his titles were chosen as Caldecott runners-up (now referred to as Caldecott Honor books): McElligot's Pool (1947), Bartholomew and the Oobleck (1949), and If I Ran the Zoo (1950).

After the war, Dr. Seuss and his wife moved to La Jolla, California. Returning to children's books, he wrote what many consider to be his finest works, including such favorites as If I Ran the Zoo, (1950), Scrambled Eggs Super! (1953), On Beyond Zebra! (1955), If I Ran the Circus (1956), and How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957).

At the same time, an important development occurred that influenced much of Seuss's later work. In May 1954, Life magazine published a report on illiteracy among school children, which concluded that children were not learning to read because their books were boring. Accordingly, Seuss's publisher made up a list of 400 words he felt were important and asked Dr. Seuss to cut the list to 250 words and write a book using only those words. Nine months later, Seuss, using 220 of the words given to him, completed The Cat in the Hat. This book was a tour de force—it retained the drawing style, verse rhythms, and all the imaginative power of Seuss's earlier works, but because of its simplified vocabulary could be read by beginning readers. A rumor exists, that in 1960, Bennett Cerf bet Dr. Seuss $50 that he couldn't write an entire book using only fifty words. The result was supposedly Green Eggs and Ham. The additional rumor that Cerf never paid Seuss the $50 has never been proven and is most likely untrue. These books achieved significant international success and remain very popular.

Dr. Seuss went on to write many other children's books, both in his new simplified-vocabulary manner (sold as "Beginner Books") and in his older, more elaborate style. In 1982 Dr. Seuss wrote "Hunches in Bunches". The Beginner Books were not easy for Seuss, and reportedly he labored for months crafting them.

At various times Seuss also wrote books for adults that used the same style of verse and pictures: The Seven Lady Godivas; Oh, The Places You'll Go!; and You're Only Old Once.

During a very difficult illness, Dr. Seuss' wife, Helen Palmer Geisel committed suicide on October 23, 1967. Seuss married Audrey Stone Dimond on June 21, 1968. Seuss himself died, following several years of illness, in La Jolla, California on September 23, 1991.

In 2002, the Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden opened in his birthplace of Springfield, Massachusetts; it features sculptures of Dr. Seuss and of many of his characters.

Though he devoted most of his life to writing children's books, he never had any children himself.

Poetic meters

Dr. Seuss wrote most of his books in a verse form that in the terminology of metrics would be characterized as anapestic tetrameter, a meter employed also by Lord Byron and other poets of the English literary canon. (It is also the meter of the famous Christmas poem A Visit From St. Nicholas, more familiarly known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas".)

Anapestic tetrameter consists of four rhythmic units (anapests), each composed of two weak beats followed by one strong, schematized below:

x x X x x X x x X x x X

Often, the first weak syllable is omitted, and/or an additional weak syllable is added at the end. A typical line (the first line of If I Ran the Circus) is:

In ALL the whole TOWN the most WONderful SPOT

Seuss generally maintained this meter quite strictly, until late in his career, when he was no longer able to maintain strict rhythm in all lines. The consistency of his meter was one of his hallmarks; the many imitators and parodists of Seuss are often unable to write in strict anapestic tetrameter, or are unaware that they should, and thus sound clumsy in comparison with the original.

Seuss also wrote verse in trochaic tetrameter, an arrangement of four units each with a strong followed by a weak beat:

X x X x X x X x

An example is the title (and first line) of One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. The formula for trochaic meter permits the final weak position in the line to be omitted, which facilitates the construction of rhymes.

Seuss generally maintained trochaic meter only for brief passages, and for longer stretches typically mixed it with iambic tetrameter:

x X x X x X x X

which is easier to write. Thus, for example, the magicians in Bartholomew and the Oobleck make their first appearance chanting in trochees (thus resembling the witches of Shakespeare's Macbeth):

SHUFFle, DUFFle, MUZZle, MUFF

then switch to iambs for the oobleck spell:

Go MAKE the OOBleck TUMBle DOWN

On EVery STREET, in EVery TOWN!

In Green Eggs and Ham, Sam-I-Am generally speaks in trochees, and the exasperated character he proselytizes replies in iambs.

While most of Seuss's books are either uniformly anapestic or iambic-trochaic, a few mix triple and double rhythms. Thus, for instance, Happy Birthday to You is generally written in anapestic tetrameter, but breaks into iambo-trochaic meter for the "Dr. Derring's singing herrings" and "Who-Bubs" episodes.

Artwork

Seuss's earlier artwork often employed the shaded texture of pencil drawings or watercolors, but in children's books of the postwar period he generally employed the starker medium of pen and ink, normally using just black, white, and one or two colors. Later books such as The Lorax used more colours.

Seuss's figures are often rounded and somewhat droopy. This is true, for instance, of the faces of the Grinch and of the Cat in the Hat. It is also true of virtually all buildings and machinery that Seuss drew: although these objects abound in straight lines in real life, Seuss carefully avoided straight lines in drawing them (in fact, he never drew a completely straight line at any part of any of his works)^{[citation needed]}. For buildings, this could be accomplished in part through choice of architecture. For machines, for example, If I Ran the Circus includes a droopy hoisting crane and a droopy steam calliope.

Seuss evidently enjoyed drawing architecturally elaborate objects. His endlessly varied (but never rectilinear) palaces, ramps, platforms, and free-standing stairways are among his most evocative creations. Seuss also drew elaborate imaginary machines, of which the Audio-Telly-O-Tally-O-Count, from Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book, is one example. Seuss also liked drawing outlandish arrangements of feathers or fur, for example, the 500th hat of Bartholomew Cubbins, the tail of Gertrude McFuzz, and the pet for girls who like to brush and comb, in One Fish Two Fish.

Seuss's images often convey motion vividly. He was fond of a sort of "voilà" gesture, in which the hand flips outward, spreading the fingers slightly backward with the thumb up; this is done by Ish, for instance, in One Fish Two Fish when he creates fish (who perform the gesture themselves with their fins), in the introduction of the various acts of If I Ran the Circus, and in the introduction of the Little Cats in The Cat in the Hat Comes Back. He was also fond of drawing hands with interlocked fingers, which looked as though the character was twiddling their thumbs.

Seuss also follows the cartoon tradition of showing motion with lines, for instance in the sweeping lines that accompany Sneelock's final dive in If I Ran the Circus. Cartoonist's lines are also used to illustrate the action of the senses (sight, smell, and hearing) in The Big Brag and even of thought, as in the moment when the Grinch conceives his awful idea.

Recurring images

Seuss's early work in advertising and editorial cartooning produced sketches that received more perfect realization later on in the children's books. Often, the expressive use to which Seuss put an image later on was quite different from the original. The examples below are from the website of the Mandeville Special Collections Library of the University of California, San Diego.

An editorial cartoon of July 16, 1941 depicts a whale resting on the top of a mountain, as a parody of American isolationists, especially Charles Lindbergh. This was later rendered (with no apparent political content) as the Wumbus of On Beyond Zebra (1955). Seussian whales (cheerful and balloon-shaped, with long eyelashes) also occur in McElligot's Pool, If I Ran the Circus, and other books.

Another editorial cartoon from 1941 shows a long cow with many legs and udders, representing the conquered nations of Europe being milked by Adolf Hitler. This later became the Umbus of On Beyond Zebra.

The tower of turtles in this editorial cartoon from 1941 prefigures a similar tower in Yertle the Turtle. This theme also appeared in a Judge cartoon as one letter of a hieroglypic message, and in Seuss's short-lived comic strip Hejji. Seuss once stated that Yertle the Turtle was Adolf Hitler.^[3]
Little cats A B and C (as well as the rest of the alphabet) who spring from each other's hats appeared in a Ford ad.
The connected beards in "Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?" crop up all over the place in Seuss's work, most notably in Hejii, which featured two goats joined at the beard, "The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T," which featured two roller-skating guards joined at the beard, and a political cartoon in which Nazism and the America First movement are portrayed as "the men with the Siamese Beard."

Seuss's earliest elephants were for advertising and had somewhat wrinkly ears, much as real elephants do. With And to Think that I Saw it on Mulberry Street (1937) and Horton Hatches the Egg (1940), the ears became more stylized, somewhat like angel wings and thus appropriate to the saintly Horton. During World War II, the elephant image appeared as an emblem for India in four editorial cartoons. Horton and similar elephants appear frequently in the postwar children's books.

While drawing advertisements for Flit, Seuss became adept at drawing insects with huge stingers, shaped like a gentle S-curve and with a sharp end that included a rearward-pointing barb on its lower side. Their facial expressions depict gleeful malevolence. These insects were later rendered in an editorial cartoon as a swarm of Allied aircraft (1942), and later still as the Sneedle of On Beyond Zebra.

Adaptations of Seuss's work

For most of his career, Dr. Seuss was reluctant to have his characters marketed in contexts outside of his own books. However, he did allow a few animated cartoons, an art form in which he himself had gained experience during the Second World War.

Seuss's first cartoon adaptation was Horton Hatches the Egg in 1942. It was animated at Warner Brothers, the same studio for which he co-created Private Snafu. Directed by Robert Clampett Horton was presented as part of the Looney Tunes series and included a number of gags not present in the original narrative, such as a fish committing suicide and the lead antagonist's affinity for Katharine Hepburn.

In 1966, Seuss authorized the eminent cartoon artist Chuck Jones, his friend and former colleague from the war, to make a cartoon version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. Seuss, as "Ted Geisel", is credited as a co-producer along with Jones. This cartoon was very faithful to the original book. It is considered a classic by many to this day, and is in the large catalog of annual Christmas television specials. Several more animated specials based on Seuss' work followed, including cartoon versions of Horton Hears a Who!, The Lorax and The Cat in the Hat in 1971, but the latter was considered less successful.

Toward the end of his life, Seuss seems to have relaxed his policy, and several other cartoons and toys were made featuring his characters, usually the Cat in the Hat and the Grinch. A Soviet paint-on-glass-animated short film called Welcome was made in 1986; an adaptation of Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose. When Seuss died of cancer at the age of 87 in 1991, his widow Audrey Geisel was placed in charge of all licensing matters. She approved a live-action film version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas starring Jim Carrey, as well as a Seuss-themed Broadway musical called Seussical (both released in 2000)."The Grinch" is now in a limited engagement run on Broadway. A live-action film based on The Cat in the Hat was released in 2003, featuring Mike Myers as the title character. Audrey Geisel was said to have been very vocal in her dislike of the film, and is believed to have said there would be no further live-action adaptations of Seuss' books.^[4]

Dr. Seuss' books and characters also now appear in an amusement park: the Seuss Landing 'island' at the Islands of Adventure theme park in Orlando, Florida. Product tie-ins (cereal boxes, and so on) have also been implemented. To stay true to the books, there is not one single straight line in all of Seuss Landing: everything curves around.

Trivia

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On the season premiere of Saturday Night Live following Dr. Seuss' death, the Reverend Jesse Jackson was a guest and declared that "Tonight, rather than read from First or Second Samuel, I read from 'Sam I Am.' Quoting the Latter Day Saint Seuss," whereupon he read Green Eggs and Ham in the style of a preacher giving an impassioned sermon.
On December 1, 1995, The University Library Building at the University of California, San Diego was renamed Geisel Library in honor of Audrey and Theodor Geisel. The Geisels were long-time residents of La Jolla, where UC San Diego is located. A sculpture of Dr. Seuss decorates the grounds of the library. Its Mandeville Special Collections Library contains many of his papers.
Dr Seuss was frequently confused, by the US Postal Service among others, with Dr Suess (cf Hans Suess) his contemporary living in the same locality, La Jolla. Both names have been posthumously linked together: The personal papers of Hans Suess are housed in the Geisel Library at UCSD [1].
Dr. Seuss was a friend and drinking partner of crime author Raymond Chandler, who was also a resident of La Jolla.
The National Education Association celebrates March 2, Dr. Seuss' Birthday, as Read Across America Day. Also known as some version of 'Read Dr. Seuss Day', some adopt the civic as well as fun responsibility to read a Dr. Seuss book to another.
In November 2004, an edition of MAD Magazine (Mad #447) featured a cover story in which lines from Seuss' books were compared with supposedly similar lines from speeches made by George W. Bush. It was titled "The Strange Similarities Between the Bush Administration and the World of Dr. Seuss." The cover drawing was of a Cat in the Hat that resembled Bush.
An episode of My Life As a Teenage Robot, "Daydream Believer," is an homage to Dr Seuss cartoons.
Is often attributed with inventing the word 'nerd'.^{[citation needed]}
The 2001 film I Am Sam , a homage to the title of the book Green Eggs and Ham references the book several times.

Best-Selling Books

In 2000, Publishers Weekly compiled a list of the best-selling children's books of all time (hardcover and softcover lists were printed separately).

No.	Book	First published	All-time rank for hardcover children's books	Notes
1	Green Eggs and Ham	1960	#4
2	The Cat in the Hat	1957	#9	approximately 7.2 million copies sold as of 2000
3	One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish	1960	#13
4	Hop on Pop	1963	#16
5	Oh, the Places You'll Go!	1990	#17
6	Dr. Seuss's ABC	1960	#18
7	The Cat in the Hat Comes Back	1958	#26
8	Fox in Socks	1965	#31
9	How the Grinch Stole Christmas	1957	#35
10	My Book about ME	1969	#40	Illustrated by Roy McKie
11	I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!	1978	#58
12	Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!	1975	#65
13	Oh Say Can You Say?	1979	#85
14	There's a Wocket in My Pocket!	1974	#93
15	Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?	1996	#98	board book
16	Dr. Seuss's ABC	1996	#99	board book
17	Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?	1970	#101
18	Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories	1958	#125
19	The Sneetches and Other Stories	1961	#129
20	Ten Apples up on Top!	1961	#130	listed as Theo. LeSieg; illustrated by Roy McKie
21	I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today!	1987	#135	illustrated by James Stevenson
22	Horton Hatches the Egg	1940	#138
23	Happy Birthday to You!	1959	#139
24	Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book	1962	#140

List of books

All of his books were by Random House

And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street New York: Beginner Books, Vanguard Press, Random House, 1937 1983 B-Extra 1
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins New York: Beginner Books, Vanguard Press, Random House, 1938 1984 B-Extra 2
The King's Stilts New York: Random House, 1939
The Seven Lady Godivas New York: Random House, 1939
Horton Hatches the Egg New York: Random House, 1940
McElligot's Pool New York: Random House, 1947. Caldecott Honor Book
Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose New York: Random House, 1948
Bartholomew and the Oobleck New York: Random House, 1949. Caldecott Honor Book
If I Ran the Zoo New York: Random House, 1950. Caldecott Honor Book
Scrambled Eggs Super! New York: Random House, 1953
Horton Hears a Who! New York: Random House, 1954
On Beyond Zebra! New York: Random House, 1955
If I Ran the Circus New York: Random House, 1956
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! New York: Random House, 1957
The Cat in the Hat New York: Beginner Books, Random House, 1957 1985 B-1
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back New York: Beginner Books, Random House, 1958 1986 B-2
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories New York: Random House, 1958
Happy Birthday to You! New York: Random House, 1959
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish New York: Beginner Books, Random House, 1960 1988 B-13
Green Eggs and Ham New York: Beginner Books, Random House, 1960 1988 B-16
The Sneetches and Other Stories New York: Random House, 1961
Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book New York: Random House, 1962
Dr. Seuss's ABC New York: Beginner Books, Random House, 1963 1991 B-30
Hop on Pop New York: Beginner Books, Random House, 1963 1991 B-29
Fox in Socks New York: Beginner Books, Random House, 1965 1993 B-38
I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew New York: Random House, 1965
The Cat in the Hat Song Book New York: Beginner Books, Random House, 1967 1994 B-Extra 3
The Foot Book New York: Bright & Early Books, Random House, 1968 1996 BE-1
I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories New York: Random House, 1969
My Book about ME New York: Beginner Books, Random House, 1970 - Roy McKie 1995 B-Extra 4
I Can Draw It Myself New York: Beginner Books, Random House, 1970 1996 B-Extra 5
Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?: Dr. Seuss's Book of Wonderful Noises! New York: Bright & Early Books, Random House, 1970 1996 BE-7
The Lorax New York: Random House, 1971. National Council for the Social Studies Notable Children's Trade Book / Social Studies
Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! New York: Bright & Early Books, Random House, 1972 1997 BE-13
Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? New York: Random House 1973
The Shape of Me and Other Stuff New York: Bright & Early Books, Random House, 1973 1997 BE-16
There's a Wocket in My Pocket! New York: Bright & Early Books, Random House, 1974 1997 BE-18
Great Day for Up! New York: Bright & Early Books, Random House, 1974 - (Pictures by Quentin Blake) 1998 BE-19
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! New York: Beginner Books, Random House, 1975. (Story and Pictures by Dr. Seuss) 1996 B-62
The Cat's Quizzer New York: Beginner Books, Random House, 1976 1993 B-63
I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! New York: Beginner Books, Random House, 1978 1996 B-64
Oh Say Can You Say? New York: Beginner Books, Random House, 1979 1996 B-65
Hunches in Bunches New York: Beginner Books, Random House, 1982 1996 B-Extra 6
The Butter Battle Book New York: Random House, 1984
You're Only Old Once! : A Book for Obsolete Children New York: Random House, 1986.
I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! New York: Random House, 1987 - (illustrated by James Stevenson) 1996 B-74
Oh, the Places You'll Go! New York: Random House, 1990
Daisy-Head Mayzie New York: Beginner Books, Random House 1995 1997 B-Extra 7
Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. By Dr. Seuss with some help from Jack Prelutsky & Lane Smith (posthumous)
My Many Colored Days New York : Alfred A. Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1996. by Dr. Seuss, paintings by Steve Johnson with Lou Fancher (posthumous)
Gerald McBoing-Boing New York: Random House, 2000 (posthumous)

Omnibus volumes

A Hatful of Seuss: Five Favorite Dr. Seuss Stories
- Bartholomew and the Oobleck (1949), If I Ran the Zoo (1950), Horton Hears a Who! (1954), The Sneetches and Other Stories (1961), and Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book (1962)
Your Favorite Seuss : A Baker's Dozen by the One and Only Dr. Seuss Molly Leach (Designer)
- And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, Horton Hears a Who!, McElligot's Pool, If I Ran the Zoo, Happy Birthday to You!, Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book, Yertle the Turtle, The Cat in the Hat, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Green Eggs and Ham, The Lorax, The Sneetches, and Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Six By Seuss: A Treasury of Dr. Seuss Classics
- And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, Horton Hatches the Egg, Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Lorax

Writing as Theo. LeSieg

LeSieg is Geisel spelled backwards.

The Tooth Book. Illustrated by Joe Mathieu/Roy McKie. 2000/1989, BE-25
The Eye Book. Illustrated by Joe Mathieu/Roy McKie. 1999/1996, BE-2
I Wish that I Had Duck Feet. 1994–2007, B-40
Please Try to Remember the First of Octember!. Illustrated by Art Cummings. 1977, 1997–1999, B-75
The Many Mice of Mr. Brice. (A pop-up book) BE-15
I Can Write. Illustrated by Roy McKie. BE-Extra 2

Writing as Rosetta Stone

Because a Little Bug Went Ka-choo, illustrated by Michael Frith. New York: Beginner Books, 1975 1996 B-61

Film, television, and theater adaptations

The Grinch in the title screen of the Emmy-winning "Halloween is Grinch Night".

The Grinch in the more famous Chuck Jones adapdation of the book.

Horton Hatches the Egg: a 1942 Warner Brothers cartoon, an early Seuss adaptation, which includes the elephant (and his son, at the end) singing a popular nonsense tune of that time, "The Hut-Sut Song" [2].
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street and Another Story a 2007 Pupetoon film by George Pal.
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T: a 1953 feature-length live-action movie, with sets that look like classic Seuss drawings and screenplay by Dr. Seuss.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas: a 1966 animated television special directed by Chuck Jones for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Horton Hears a Who!: a 1970 animated television special directed by Chuck Jones for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
The Cat in the Hat: a 1971 animated television special directed by Hawley Pratt for DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and CBS.
The Lorax: a 1972 animated television special directed by Hawley Pratt for DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and CBS.
Dr. Seuss on the Loose: a 1973 animated television special and Movie directed by Hawley Pratt for DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and CBS, Dr. Seuss; this special was hosted by the The Cat in the Hat and included the stories The Sneetches, The Zax, and Green Eggs and Ham.
The Hoober-Bloob Highway: a 1975 animated television special directed by Alan Zaslove for DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and CBS.
- Nominated for Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less)
Yertle the Turtle a 1977 tv special.
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back and Other Stories: 1 2006 animation television special by The Ink Tank
Halloween is Grinch Night: a 1977 animated television special directed by Gerard Baldwin for DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and ABC.
- Won Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less)
Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You?: a 1980 animated television special directed by Gerard Baldwin for DePatie-Freleng Enterprises.
- Nominated for Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less)
The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat: a 1982 animated television special directed by Bill Perez for DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, Marvel Productions
- Won Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less)
Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose as Welcome: a 1986 Soviet paint-on-glass-animated short film. Winner of Grand Prix at the Ottawa International Animation Festival in 1988 and in Los Angeles.
The Butter Battle Book: a 1989 animated television special by Ralph Bakshi for Turner Entertainment.
Dr. Seuss's ABC and Other Stories: a 2007 television special by The Ink Tank
If I Ran the Circus a 1992 cosmic.
In Search of Dr. Seuss: a 1994 television biopic outlining Seuss's life along with his books.
Daisy - Head Mayzie: a 1995 animated television special by Christopher O'Hare for Hanna-Barbera Productions (posthumous)
- Nominated for Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less)
The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss: a 1996 live-action/puppet TV series that featured many Dr. Seuss characters including Horton the Elephant, Mr. Fox & Mr. Knox, and of course the Cat in the Hat.
Kids for Character: a 1996 animated television special by Character Counts!
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!: a 2000 live-action film (posthumous)
Seussical: a 2001 Broadway musical (posthumous)
The Cat in the Hat: a 2003 live-action film (posthumous)
Hop on Pop and Other Stories: a 2007 live-action animated television special by The Ink Tank and JWL Enterainment Productions
Veggietales: A Snoodle's Tale: inspired by Dr. Seuss: a 2004 live-action animated television special by Big Idea and DKP Studios
The Zax a 2006 2 minute CGI movie
Summertime: a 2007 live-action film by The Ink Tank and JWL Entertainment Productions, Thamas Entertianment and Prism Entertainment
Horton Hears a Who!: a 2008 CGI film (posthumous)

Beginner books and audio cassettes

The Cat in the Hat
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
Green Eggs and Ham
Dr. Seuss's ABC
Hop on Pop
Fox in Socks
My Book about ME
I Can Draw It Myself
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!
The Cat's Quizzer
I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
Oh Say Can You Say?
I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today!

Footnotes

^ http://www.wargs.com/other/geisel.html
^ Pronouncing German Words in English 2
^ CNN.com article, October 17, 1999. "Serious Seuss: Children's author as political cartoonist". Retrieved March 23, 2007.
^ MS-NBC "Seussentenial: 100 years of Dr. Seuss Geisel's widow continues to nutures writer's cast of characters" Updated: 11:42 a.m. PT February 26, 2004

Miller, Chris. The Real Animal House. pg. 202. Little, Brown Company. New York. 2006

Brief biography of Dr. Seuss (UC San Diego)

The Advertising Artwork of Dr. Seuss (UC San Diego)

The complete Dr. Seuss editorial cartoons (UC San Diego)

Dr. Seuss at the Internet Movie Database

Biographical resources dedicated to Dr. Seuss