That effort grew out of a challenge to Seuss posed by a publisher:īack in 1954, Life magazine published an article entitled "Why Do Students Bog Down on First R? A Local Committee Sheds Light on a National Problem: Reading." That article was quite critical of school primers, essentially claiming that the books schools used to teach children to read – and to love reading once they mastered the basic mechanics of it – were boring, and that the children featured in them were not relatable. In 1957, Seuss produced his classic children's tale The Cat in the Hat, which used only 236 different words, all of them taken from an average first-grader's vocabulary list. Bartholomew and the Oobleck, If I Ran the Zoo, Horton Hears a Who!, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and many other books involving Seuss' trademark "ludicrous situations pursued with relentless logic" have formed the core of many a child's personal library. Multiple generations of children have now grown up enjoying the wildly imaginative rhyming works written and illustrated by Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr.
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