no you’re do the Grinch the Lorax the
Cat in the Hat we owe them all to the
best-selling children’s author of all
time
Theodore Geisel welcome to watchmojo.com
ting down the top-5 most interesting and
surprising facts about dr. Seuss so will
the real Ted Geisel please stand up
number 5 he didn’t like children that
much dr. Seuss wrote for kids and the
kids love to read but kids of his own he
said no not for me
oh gosh oh those guys died noise not
only did he have no children of his own
but dr. Seuss wasn’t especially fond of
kids . his widow audrey diamond and his
former secretary julie olfe
even went so far as to say he was
slightly afraid of them ted was afraid
of children i felt because he had had
almost no experience with him according
to audrey Seuss was always worried about
what they do or say next so he struggled
to spend any notable time with the
millions of children he’d made happy
with his writing when asked about
children and parenthood Geisel is
reported to have once said you make him
I’ll amuse him well that worked on
fleshly but he does seem to have had a
certain reverence for them as well of
writing for grownups he once said adults
are just obsolete children and the hell
with them done that
Plan B cut your losses and ditched the
kids that could work
number 4 he invented the nerd Seuss
could write day and night making up
unknown words but one word we know best
and that word well it’s nerd Lois let’s
go Seuss was both a master and a maker
of words and although many of his unique
utterances have yet to fully establish
themselves in everyday speech the word
nerd can actually be traced back to a
1950 Seuss story called
if I ran the zoo in the book a kid is
busy listing lots of fantastical
creatures for his own hypothetical zoo
when he names an Urkel a nerd and a
seersucker – now in this instance it’s
highly unlikely that the nerd in
question was dressed in geek chic and
had an impressive IQ but even so Seuss
had unknowingly coined the collective
term for today’s more intelligent folk
and if that’s not clever we don’t know
what is know number three he wrote adult
books to dr. Seuss he’s for kids yes
you’re right but you’re wrong
there’s also books for bigs for adults –
singsong every who down in Whoville the
tall and the small and close together
Seuss will always be a children’s writer
first and foremost but he could and did
entertain an older audience as well
during the Great Depression to make ends
meet Geisel made ads for the likes of
General Electric NBC and Standard Oil
and there are two expressly adult
entries in his otherwise charmingly
child-friendly bibliography in 1939 he
published the seven lady Godiva’s
a retelling of the popular legend which
actually featured nude illustrations the
good faux doctor considered the 80 page
clunker to be his biggest failure and
never liked the ridiculous way he drew
the naked sisters it’s not a dress it’s
a kilt at all
47 years later when Geisel was 82 he
released you’re only old once
unlike his first non children’s book it
was received very well it reached number
one on the New York Times bestseller
list and spent over 60 weeks in the
chart
number two his rhymes were often
political when Horton heard who it was
more than just that Seuss’s rhymes made
a point a well-versed diplomat and he
heard it again just a very faint Yelp as
if some tiny person will calling for
help
sometimes even Seuss’s so-called kids
books have a more mature latent meaning
and the playful pen Smith often made his
political point known during World War
two Geisel was tasked with creating war
propaganda cartoons and writing films
for American troops and citizens private
snafu
is perhaps his most well known invention
a bumbling GI designed to teach new
recruits how to be a good soldier blow
your brains out
many of Seuss’s later stories also
served as allegories for other things
such as horton hears a who which is
about America’s treatment of post-war
Japan I won’t ever let you down you’re a
person after all and a person is a
person no matter how small and yertle
the turtle which is based on Adolphe
Hitler his most controversial work
however is probably the butter battle
book the cold war-era book depicts the
escalating conflict between the Yuke’s
and the zooks
and their eventual stalemate when they
both acquire a weapon called the bitsy
big boy boomer ooh hey easy oh gee who’s
gonna drop it for you or he it’s
basically a thinly veiled allegory of
the nuclear arms race
number one green eggs and ham was
written on a dare but 50 words I’m
allowed no problem I can do said Seuss
to his boss then he made Sam for you do
you like green eggs and ham I do not
like them sam-i-am I do not like green
eggs and ham
it’s one of Seuss’s best-known tales but
green eggs and ham was only ever written
because Geisel took up a seemingly
ridiculous bet in 1960 Seuss’s editor
Bennett Cerf challenged the author to
write a book using only 50 words
sam-i-am cyclical story was what he came
up with the picky eater character is one
most children or at least most parents
recognize and Sam’s determination to
convert his friends culinary tastes is a
life lesson in itself sue set out to
make learning to read more exciting for
children and the Cat in the Hat is often
credited with killing off old school
Dick and Jane stories which were
increasingly seen as boring only two
hundred and twenty different words were
required for the Cat in the Hat but Sam
Iams half-century of wordsmith Rhee is a
wonder in itself I like green eggs and
ham I do I like them sam-i-am
so which of these facts surprised you
but how can you prove it just what can
you do and what’s your favorite dr.
Seuss book why mush stop Christmas from
coming
how four mourner chol nerd and
seersucker top tens and Bitsey big-boy
top fives be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com and i would eat them in a
boat and i would eat them with a goat
and i will eat them in the rain and in
the dark and on a tree
Cat in the Hat we owe them all to the
best-selling children’s author of all
time
Theodore Geisel welcome to watchmojo.com
ting down the top-5 most interesting and
surprising facts about dr. Seuss so will
the real Ted Geisel please stand up
number 5 he didn’t like children that
much dr. Seuss wrote for kids and the
kids love to read but kids of his own he
said no not for me
oh gosh oh those guys died noise not
only did he have no children of his own
but dr. Seuss wasn’t especially fond of
kids . his widow audrey diamond and his
former secretary julie olfe
even went so far as to say he was
slightly afraid of them ted was afraid
of children i felt because he had had
almost no experience with him according
to audrey Seuss was always worried about
what they do or say next so he struggled
to spend any notable time with the
millions of children he’d made happy
with his writing when asked about
children and parenthood Geisel is
reported to have once said you make him
I’ll amuse him well that worked on
fleshly but he does seem to have had a
certain reverence for them as well of
writing for grownups he once said adults
are just obsolete children and the hell
with them done that
Plan B cut your losses and ditched the
kids that could work
number 4 he invented the nerd Seuss
could write day and night making up
unknown words but one word we know best
and that word well it’s nerd Lois let’s
go Seuss was both a master and a maker
of words and although many of his unique
utterances have yet to fully establish
themselves in everyday speech the word
nerd can actually be traced back to a
1950 Seuss story called
if I ran the zoo in the book a kid is
busy listing lots of fantastical
creatures for his own hypothetical zoo
when he names an Urkel a nerd and a
seersucker – now in this instance it’s
highly unlikely that the nerd in
question was dressed in geek chic and
had an impressive IQ but even so Seuss
had unknowingly coined the collective
term for today’s more intelligent folk
and if that’s not clever we don’t know
what is know number three he wrote adult
books to dr. Seuss he’s for kids yes
you’re right but you’re wrong
there’s also books for bigs for adults –
singsong every who down in Whoville the
tall and the small and close together
Seuss will always be a children’s writer
first and foremost but he could and did
entertain an older audience as well
during the Great Depression to make ends
meet Geisel made ads for the likes of
General Electric NBC and Standard Oil
and there are two expressly adult
entries in his otherwise charmingly
child-friendly bibliography in 1939 he
published the seven lady Godiva’s
a retelling of the popular legend which
actually featured nude illustrations the
good faux doctor considered the 80 page
clunker to be his biggest failure and
never liked the ridiculous way he drew
the naked sisters it’s not a dress it’s
a kilt at all
47 years later when Geisel was 82 he
released you’re only old once
unlike his first non children’s book it
was received very well it reached number
one on the New York Times bestseller
list and spent over 60 weeks in the
chart
number two his rhymes were often
political when Horton heard who it was
more than just that Seuss’s rhymes made
a point a well-versed diplomat and he
heard it again just a very faint Yelp as
if some tiny person will calling for
help
sometimes even Seuss’s so-called kids
books have a more mature latent meaning
and the playful pen Smith often made his
political point known during World War
two Geisel was tasked with creating war
propaganda cartoons and writing films
for American troops and citizens private
snafu
is perhaps his most well known invention
a bumbling GI designed to teach new
recruits how to be a good soldier blow
your brains out
many of Seuss’s later stories also
served as allegories for other things
such as horton hears a who which is
about America’s treatment of post-war
Japan I won’t ever let you down you’re a
person after all and a person is a
person no matter how small and yertle
the turtle which is based on Adolphe
Hitler his most controversial work
however is probably the butter battle
book the cold war-era book depicts the
escalating conflict between the Yuke’s
and the zooks
and their eventual stalemate when they
both acquire a weapon called the bitsy
big boy boomer ooh hey easy oh gee who’s
gonna drop it for you or he it’s
basically a thinly veiled allegory of
the nuclear arms race
number one green eggs and ham was
written on a dare but 50 words I’m
allowed no problem I can do said Seuss
to his boss then he made Sam for you do
you like green eggs and ham I do not
like them sam-i-am I do not like green
eggs and ham
it’s one of Seuss’s best-known tales but
green eggs and ham was only ever written
because Geisel took up a seemingly
ridiculous bet in 1960 Seuss’s editor
Bennett Cerf challenged the author to
write a book using only 50 words
sam-i-am cyclical story was what he came
up with the picky eater character is one
most children or at least most parents
recognize and Sam’s determination to
convert his friends culinary tastes is a
life lesson in itself sue set out to
make learning to read more exciting for
children and the Cat in the Hat is often
credited with killing off old school
Dick and Jane stories which were
increasingly seen as boring only two
hundred and twenty different words were
required for the Cat in the Hat but Sam
Iams half-century of wordsmith Rhee is a
wonder in itself I like green eggs and
ham I do I like them sam-i-am
so which of these facts surprised you
but how can you prove it just what can
you do and what’s your favorite dr.
Seuss book why mush stop Christmas from
coming
how four mourner chol nerd and
seersucker top tens and Bitsey big-boy
top fives be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com and i would eat them in a
boat and i would eat them with a goat
and i will eat them in the rain and in
the dark and on a tree
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