Dr. Seuss Research Paper
Ciera Irvin
Mrs. Allen
4/29/12
English 9B
Dr. Seuss Research essay Did you know that Dr. Seuss books has been translated into more than 15 different languages and has sold over 200 million copies in the world? Theodor Seuss Geisel was born March 2, 1904 on Howard Street in Springfield, Massachusetts and died September 24, 1991. He graduated Dartmouth College in 1925 and went to Oxford University for a doctorate in literature. He began working on a magazine called Judge; it was a humor magazine in America after submitting the humorous articles he started submitting cartoons to life which gained noticed and led him to contract to draw comic ads for …show more content…
Seuss created the book “The Cat In The Hat” on may 25, 1954 it all started when Spaulding gave Dr. Seuss a challenge to write a book with 225 words that every six year old should know. Nine months later he created the book The Cat In Hat using 223 words from the list and 13 words that wasn’t from the list. The story is 1629 words in length and uses a vocabulary of only 236 distinct words, 54 occurred once and 33 twice. He had an interview he gave in Arizona magazine in June 1981, Dr Seuss said that the book took nine months to complete because of the difficulty of writing a book from the 223 selected words. He also said that he made the title rhyme from the words that was also in the …show more content…
Seuss $50 that he couldn’t write a book with only 50 words and they all had to be different words. So Dr. Seuss created the book Green Eggs And Ham, that became a picture book classic but publisher Bennette Cert never paid up like he said he was. Green Eggs And Ham was marked the apex of Seuss’s minimalist-vocabulary period, and it was impressive also it was the fourth best-selling English-language children book of all time. The 50 are: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, and
Mrs. Allen
4/29/12
English 9B
Dr. Seuss Research essay Did you know that Dr. Seuss books has been translated into more than 15 different languages and has sold over 200 million copies in the world? Theodor Seuss Geisel was born March 2, 1904 on Howard Street in Springfield, Massachusetts and died September 24, 1991. He graduated Dartmouth College in 1925 and went to Oxford University for a doctorate in literature. He began working on a magazine called Judge; it was a humor magazine in America after submitting the humorous articles he started submitting cartoons to life which gained noticed and led him to contract to draw comic ads for …show more content…
Seuss created the book “The Cat In The Hat” on may 25, 1954 it all started when Spaulding gave Dr. Seuss a challenge to write a book with 225 words that every six year old should know. Nine months later he created the book The Cat In Hat using 223 words from the list and 13 words that wasn’t from the list. The story is 1629 words in length and uses a vocabulary of only 236 distinct words, 54 occurred once and 33 twice. He had an interview he gave in Arizona magazine in June 1981, Dr Seuss said that the book took nine months to complete because of the difficulty of writing a book from the 223 selected words. He also said that he made the title rhyme from the words that was also in the …show more content…
Seuss $50 that he couldn’t write a book with only 50 words and they all had to be different words. So Dr. Seuss created the book Green Eggs And Ham, that became a picture book classic but publisher Bennette Cert never paid up like he said he was. Green Eggs And Ham was marked the apex of Seuss’s minimalist-vocabulary period, and it was impressive also it was the fourth best-selling English-language children book of all time. The 50 are: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, and