ipl-logo

Dr. Seuss Accomplishments

575 Words3 Pages

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. (Dr.Seuss)” Dr.Seuss had looked at the world through a different perspective and wrote his stories in that world. He brightened lives with his creation from his world while facing issues in the real world. Dr.Seuss made books that inspired people of all ages, and made stories that got children into reading. In 1954 Houghton Miffin and Random House asked Dr. Seuss (Dr.Seuss Biography, 2015) to write a book with 220 vocabulary words for children to raise reading levels for children. The result was The Cat in The Hat, which extremly helped kids learn to read. Over time the book became very popular over time and became his most popular book. The books he wrote also had many wise words included in them like, “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.(Dr.Seuss) (Dr.Seuss Quotes, 2015)” Along with that one quote there were many more in his stories that have changed many. Dr. Seuss’s books had also had …show more content…

Seuss had some some really big challenges to deal with during his life. Growing up, because of the fact that Dr.Seuss was german he wasn’t the most loved person. This was because world war II had just ended (All About Dr.Seuss, 2004). After illustrating comics for a while Dr.Seuss to respond with wonderment and awe at books. Not too soon after Dr.Seuss wrote and illustrated his first book, And to Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street (All About Dr.Seuss, 2004). The issue was no one would publish it, but after persisting he got it published. The books he wrote had a large amount of creativity, imagination, innovation, and wisdom. His books did all of this even though in the beginning he could barely get someone to publish him. Included with the fact that he was looked at differently because he was german, he had changed a

Show More
Related
880 Words | 4 Pages

Seuss never though he would become a children book writer, he always want to be a professor but life had different plan for Dr. Seuss. When he returns to America back in 1927, Dr. Seuss decided to pursue cartooning a full- time career. His articles and illustrations were published in big times magazines such as; LIFE and Vanity Fair. Dr. Seuss published a cartoon in July 1927 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, his first using the pen name “Seuss,” landed him a staff position at the New York weekly Judge. For 15 years he worked for Standard Oil in the advertising department.

Read More
1268 Words | 6 Pages

He was denied multiple times because many were afraid of having legal liability of the book and getting sued by the meat packing companies. Publishers have even been accused of changing information

Read More
218 Words | 1 Pages

Dr. Seuss’s is a well- known and influential American writer whose books staple in homes and elementary schools today. Dr. Seuss's books had an influence on me because they always gave me a sense of imagination. Dr. Seuss's books were an easy read and constantly getting stuck in my head. As a young girl I used to quote Green Eggs and Ham all the time around my house. Even during the holiday season (Christmas time) Dr. Seuss’s book The Grinch who stole Christmas is constantly being read internationally in commemoration of Christmas spirit.

Read More
871 Words | 4 Pages

He has done much research and his book is to enlighten people on the misbeliefs in some very important matters throughout history, specifically

Read More
728 Words | 3 Pages

Paragraph One The book starts off with the crew and their Captain Marlow on the boat called Nellie, They are very civil and play board games to pass time. Once you go farther down the river the people turn to savages and they kill people for fun. These people lived in the Jungle for their lives and have gone insane, Not people you want to talk to. “Sandbanks, marshes, forests, savages,—precious little to eat fit for a civilized man, nothing but Thames water to drink.”

Read More
877 Words | 4 Pages

In the essays, “Reading to Write” by Stephen King, “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie, “Learning to Read” Malcolm X, and “Learning to Write” by Frederick Douglas have three things in common. In each essay Reading has contributed towards the authors life leading to benefit from learning to read, allowing them to leave a legacy behind. In each essay the authors has thought their self how unlike Frederick Douglass. For Stephen King, reading has done a lot for him. King stated, “Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones” (221).

Read More
1751 Words | 8 Pages

The Impact of Dr. Seuss on American Culture “ Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing (Dr. Seuss).” When Theodor Seuss Geisel was born, life was not as easy as it is today. From war to civil rights movements, Seuss endured many influential american “battles”. Theodor Seuss Geisel grew up in a large German community where his family lived and worked.

Read More
728 Words | 3 Pages

Seuss. Growing up as the son of a German immigrant in Springfield, Massachusetts, Theodor Geisel enjoyed reading, drawing ,and exploring the world around him. As a child, Geisel saw everyday things in a different way ,and was consistently intrigued by anything he saw. Whenever his family came across intersections, he would stay behind because he would look at the details of everything happening like “barking dogs chasing after children on their bicycles, the procession of horse-drawn vehicles---unwieldy ice wagons leaking torrents of water from their tailgates; grocers’ delivery vans laden with crates of lettuce, corn, and rhubarb, all making their way along the cobblestone streets”(Pease 12). Taking in details as little as these shows how Geisel developed his creative mind only as a child.

Read More
1432 Words | 6 Pages

Many of these authors were not only novelists but also scientists. Without this very crucial publicity, both of these groups would have failed to make a living and would have had a harder time advancing in their respective fields. This may have made it more financially viable to recount one’s beliefs if they were Jewish and contributed to the Nazi’s desire for religious

Read More
1180 Words | 5 Pages

Seuss is unquestionably a creative man. One way to see Dr. Seuss as a creative person is by his books. Seuss writes his books with many rhymes, colorful pictures, and most importantly, just fun to read in general. In the article, “Dr. Seuss” the page wrote, “‘Looping, free-style [sic] drawings; clanging, infectious rhymes; and a relentless logic’” (Dr. Seuss).

Read More
625 Words | 3 Pages

For instance, when it says ,” That’s why, as a youth, I made watching my goal, watching Zooks for the Zook-Watching Border patrol!.”(Seuss pg 8)”. To conclude this was a very good children 's book and many people still know it today. (The Butter Battle Book, 1984) To conclude, Dr. Seuss’s life and books have been memorable to so many people and children which has inspired other writers in their work. But Seuss was also inspired by his very own parents, which is what made him want to begin writing.

Read More
918 Words | 4 Pages

His Books always have a theme or a moral to the story just like when he wrote “The Lorax” and “The Butter Battle Book”. I believe the shared moral between these two books is that humans tend to forget that everyone has an opinion and when we become immersed in power and wealth we tend to dominate and desecrate the environment. The Lorax is a book about a man his name is Once-ler, at first he was filled with excitement for these Tuffula Trees’ because they were softer than silk and could make a garment called a Thneed. Once-ler cut down the first tree the Lorax came out from the stump and tried to tell him to stop.

Read More
710 Words | 3 Pages

Plus, in an interview, he mentioned the book burnings in China, Germany and Russia. The book was published eight years after the World War II, not really far from the time when book-burnings were an important part of the national socialism in Germany(Interesting Literature, 2013). In the interview, he also talked about the book burnings in the McCarthy era. In that period, 30,000 books which were written by communist sympathizers or contained pro communist themes, were banned and removed from the shelves of public libraries. He was widely upset with this and said, “Anything that touches the library, touches me(YouTube, 2011).”

Read More
1189 Words | 5 Pages

Seuss and Personalities Dr. Seuss is known in American Literature as a children’s author. His imagination based stories define his career as childish. However, his work The Cat in the Hat has a deeper meaning. Seuss’ story coincides with the ideas of Dr. Sigmund Freud, a well-known psychologist. The Cat in the Hat, by Dr. Seuss, is more than a simplistic children’s story.

Read More
1715 Words | 7 Pages

Just a while later, in 1936, he decided to write his first book; A Little History of the World. He wrote this book to educate children and teenagers. Sadly, the book got banned by the German Nazi organization for peacemaking, which the Nazis didn’t want at that time period. But luckily, before the book got banned, he already fled to Britain in 1939. In Britain he managed to publish more of his texts, which included: The Story of Art (1950), Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960), Aby Warburg:

Read More

More about Dr. Seuss Accomplishments

Related Topics

Open Document