“The
problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like
you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you
can do it, it helps tremendously because it's a thing that forces kids to read
on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.”
– Dr. Seuss
Today is the 113th
anniversary of the birth of Theodor Seuss Geisel, known around the globe and
probably for all eternity as Dr. Seuss.
Writer, cartoonist, animator, book publisher, and artist, his work
includes several of the most popular children's books of all time and all-told
(to date) they have been translated into more than 20 languages and sold over
600 million copies. You would be
hard-pressed to say “Cat in the Hat” anywhere in the world and not get a
positive reaction and smile.
Four of his books also have been
wildly popular animated films, led by Cat in the Hat and How The Grinch Stole
Christmas – also made into a live action movie.
Those four films have now done gross box office sales of $1.2 billion – and counting.
While he thought 
his career would be
in cartooning (he sold his first one to The
Saturday Evening Post in 1927), it
was his writing in verse, primarily for kids, that led to his worldwide
success. “Fantasy is a necessary
ingredient in living,” he once wrote.
“It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and
that enables you to laugh at life's realities.” He also noted, that “I like nonsense; it
wakes up the brain cells.”
his career would be
in cartooning (he sold his first one to The
Saturday Evening Post in 1927), it
was his writing in verse, primarily for kids, that led to his worldwide
success. “Fantasy is a necessary
ingredient in living,” he once wrote.
“It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and
that enables you to laugh at life's realities.” He also noted, that “I like nonsense; it
wakes up the brain cells.”
“Don't cry because it's over,”
Geisel advised shortly before his death from cancer in 1991. “Smile because it happened.“
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