The Seven Lady Godivas Analysis

As time went on Geisel produced more children’s books and started working on a project that was called The Seven Lady Godivas. Its intention was to be an adult retelling of the Lady Godiva saga, but it ended up being one of the largest flops Geisel ever worked on. Geisel’s illustrations that were supposed to be adult content were childish and did not fit the adult theme. This was also created during the depression. The cost was two dollars, but in Geisel’s words, “‘Nobody had two dollars’” (qtd. in Fensch 78). He ends up working at a newspaper called the PM where another form of work of his comes into light, political comics. World War II started and Geisel was a strong advocate. He wanted people to know what was happening and encourage America to join the war. He illustrated Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota as a hours’s ass because he encouraged the
With his first being And To Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street (Cohen 152). Number eighteen in this list, written in 1960 is a book called, Green Eggs and Ham. Its page length, word choice and illustrations can be compared with one of his other well known work, The Cat and the Hat. (Fensch 136-138). Both were short stories which had a restricted word choice. He first made a list of 500 words then asked his editor to whittle the list down to 250. The reasoning behind this decision was to help children to read. The fewer words with repetition and rhyme helped children learn to read. The Christian Science Monitor states, “‘…he does seem to know exactly what children just beginning to read find unbearably funny’” (qtd. in Fensch 137). One difference between the Cat and the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham is that Geisel used only 50 to write Green Eggs and Ham. He did this because of a bet with his editor. The bet was 50 words for $50. Geisel worked long and hard to come up with rhyming words, but he did it, using exactly 50 words (Fensch