Celebrating Green Eggs and Ham Mar14

Celebrating Green Eggs and Ham

I have been seriously remiss with regard to my promise a week or two ago to write a bit more about Theodor Seuss Geisel, the beloved author better known as Dr. Suess. But while I won’t fulfill that promise in full, I will share just a bit about one of his most famous creations. Geisel, as you may know, thought that children’s books – particularly those designed to encourage reading – where a bit of a travesty: dull, unimaginative, boring. (And if you ever had to sit down with the “Dick and Jane” stories you’ll know what he meant!). And so he set out to rectify matters by taking a basic set of 225 vocabulary words that were the...

Too Many Daves Mar01

Too Many Daves

Tomorrow is the birthday of one of my all-time favorite writers, Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. I’ll be posting more about dear Theodor on Monday, but for now I wanted to share one of his poem-stories that appeared as part of his wonderful book The Sneetches and Other Stories....