Dr. Seuss: Young Author and Artist.Dr. Seuss Noun 1. Dr. Seuss - United States writer of children's books (1904-1991) Geisel, Theodor Seuss Geisel : Young Author and Artist. Kathleen Kudlinski. New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2005. Illus., softcover soft·cov·er adj. Not bound between hard covers: softcover books; a softcover edition. , 184 pp., $4.99. This straightforward biography covers Geisel's life from his happy, early childhood in a Massachusetts home with his German parents through the unhappy World War I years and horrors of the flu pandemic pandemic /pan·dem·ic/ (pan-dem´ik) 1. a widespread epidemic of a disease. 2. widely epidemic. pan·dem·ic adj. Epidemic over a wide geographic area. n. , and on to high school where an English teacher encouraged a freshly discovered writing talent. There he also sharpened an innate urge for creating inventive creatures and producing cartoons. Travel and filmmaking and luck eventually produced Dr. Seuss and his best-selling To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street The following streets are named Mulberry Street:
Mulberry Street (film) . Kudlinski links together anecdotes and imagined conversations in a very readable fashion that offers insights into Seuss's creative process as well as his emotional struggles and his efforts to make the world a kinder, more moral place. She makes a good case for his global popularity and for the many awards, including a Pulitzer. The book would have been even more useful had it included examples of his art. |
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