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For Diana, whom I often see
on the other Mulberry StreetJP

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Text copyright 2011 by Janet B. Pascal. Illustrations copyright 2011 by Nancy Harrison. All rights reserved. Published by Grosset & Dunlap, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group, 345 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014. GROSSET & DUNLAP is a trademark of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Printed in the U.S.A.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Pascal, Janet B.

Who was Dr. Seuss? / by Janet Pascal ; illustrated by Nancy Harrison.

p. cm.(Who was...?)

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN : 978-1-101-53543-1

1. Seuss, Dr.Juvenile literature. 2. Authors, American20th centuryBiographyJuvenile literature. 3. IllustratorsUnited StatesBiographyJuvenile literature. 4. Childrens literatureAuthorshipJuvenile literature.

I. Harrison, Nancy, 1963- ill. II. Title.

PS3513.E2Z793 2011

813.52dc22

[B]

2010041738

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Who Was Dr. Seuss?

In 1985, Princeton University awarded honorary degrees to six people. An honorary degree is given to a person who has done something important for the world. The students were most excited about one of the people being honored. When a tall, thin man with a gray beard stood up, they all leaped to their feet. I am Sam, they chanted. Sam-I-am. Then they recited, from memory, all of Green Eggs and Ham. It was a special way to show Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, how much his books meant to them.

Among the Princeton students that year was Michelle Robinson. Many years later, she married Barack Obama and became the First Lady of the United States. In 2010 she chose another Dr. Seuss book, The Cat in the Hat, to read aloud to the nations schoolchildren. The First Lady knew that books for beginning readers used to be solemn and boring. Then Dr. Seuss appeared with his bouncy rhymes and wild and crazy characters like the Cat in the Hat, Horton, and the Grinch. Learning to read was never the same again.

Chapter 1

Goofy Machines

Theodor Seuss Geisel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on March 2, 1904. Springfield was full of factories turning out cars, guns, bicycles, tires, and toys. One of the factories was a brewery that Teds grandfather had started called Kalmbach and Geisel. Teds father became the president of the company. Its beer was so popular that the people of Springfield nicknamed the business Come Back and Guzzle.

Ted grew up in a family that loved wordplay. His mothers family owned a bakery. As a child, she made up rhymes listing the pie flavors. Later, she sang her children to sleep with the same rhymes. Ted believed that his love of verse came from his memories of those pie poems.

His sister, two years older, was named Margaretha. But she nicknamed herself Marnie Mecca Ding Ding Guy.

His father, also named Theodor, liked to dream up goofy, complicated inventions in his spare time. Teds favorite was a Silk-Stocking-Back-Seam-Wrong-Detecting Mirror.

Young Ted loved to hang around the zoo. He got special treatment because his father helped run the zoo. Sometimes, he said, theyd let me in the cage with the small lions and the small tigers, and I got chewed up every once in a while. (He was famous for exaggerating when he told stories.)

After a visit to the zoo, Ted would rush home and draw animals on the walls of his room. Somehow the animals never ended up looking quite like what he had seen, so he would make up names for them. One of his mothers favorites was a creature with ears that were nine feet long. He called it a Wynnmph.

Like many people in Springfield, the Geisels came from Germany. Ted grew up speaking both German and English. In 1914, World War I started in Europe. Many countries were fighting against Germany. The United States was not in the war yet. (That didnt happen until 1917.) But Germans were becoming very unpopular in America.

At school, German American children were often bullied. Sometimes kids would throw rocks at Ted. The Geisel family tried hard to prove that they were patriotic Americans. Teds Boy Scout troop had a contest to see who could sell the most Liberty bondsa way to help the government support the war effort. Teds grandfather bought one thousand dollars worth. This made Ted one of the winners.

At the awards ceremony, medals were given out by former president Theodore Roosevelt. But someone in the Boy Scouts had made a mistake. There were ten winners, yet Roosevelt had only nine medals. When he ran out of medals, Ted was left standing alone onstage. Roosevelt bellowed, Whats this little boy doing here? No one explained that Ted was a winner, too. Ted slunk away.

From then on, it was very hard for Ted to get up in front of people. Even after he was famous, he refused to give speeches. When he tried to appear on a television talk show, he was so scared that he couldnt say a word.

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