Theodor Seuss: Yertle The Turtle, How The Grinch Stole Christmas

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Dr. Seuss Throughout Dr. Seuss’s life, he has written dozens of books with over one hundred million copies sold, and still being produced to this day. Theodor Seuss Geisel is a well-known author that had many inspirations for his works that are still read by millions today, such as Yertle the Turtle, The Sneeches, How the Grinch Stole Christmas. His inevitable fame and fortune came with a lot of pressure; pressure of his readers as well as pressure of his producers.
Dr. Seuss was born in Springfield, MA on March 2, 1904 as Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss At Work). He attended Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. He did his undergraduate work at Dartmouth; postgraduate, Oxford and Sorbonne( SV DO or C; S, DO or C) (Geisel, Theodor Seuss). Seuss became the editor-in-chief for Dartmouth’s Jack-o-lantern, the college’s humor magazine. It was now when he started signing his works with the pseudonym, Dr. Seuss. After his studies became too much to handle, he quit college and toured around Europe. When he returned home he began pursuing a career in cartooning (All About Dr. Seuss). He illustrated a collection of children’s saying called Boners. These sayings were not a huge success. He pushed for …show more content…

Even though he couldn’t draw very well, he always carried a notebook with him. His book Horton Hatches the Egg was a result of his doodling accidentally overlapping. His drawing of an elephant, later to be named Horton, was lying atop a sketch of a tree. “That’s a hell of situation. An elephant in a tree!” Seuss made multiple rough drafts before any of his work was published (Dr. Seuss at Work). Before he could get any of his works published, he had to get his name known. He created advertising for Standard Oil, Schaefer Bock Beer, Ford, and NBC (Moje, E.B., Shyo). He founded Beginner Book Inc. in 1958, which became a division of Random House Books (Geisel, Theodor

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