Seussology

1. Seussology Presented by Rhonda Mueller Mother, Grandmother, Teacher and Self-Proclaimed Seussologist

2. Who Was Theodore Giesel

3. Not the Cat in the Hat • Theo LeSieg • Rosetta Stone • Dr. Seuss - to please his father, did eventually earn a doctorate from Dartmouth

4. German Family in Springfield Mass. • Brewers • Zooers • Gymnast and Swimmers • Shooters • Bakers • Great great Grossvater

5. Artist and avid reader at an early age

6. Read the same book over and over again

7. Made friends by creating humorous drawings and writing

8. Art Teacher Not Impressed • Never break the rules

9. Early Years • Wrote and edited for newspapers • The Mikado • Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night • Wrote his own play • Jazz musician • Director • Dartmouth • Oxford • Edited humor magazine

10. Dartmouth • Jewish - prejudice • Least likely to succeed

11. England • Helen • Draw

12. Cartoonist

13. Boredom - not busy enough • Wrote his first children’s book - an ABC book with unusual animals.

14. And To Think I Saw It On Mulberry Street - 1936 • Ship trip • Chance meeting • Vanguard • Loved writing for children and Gus

15. Kindergarten and First Grade • What would you see on Elliott Street?

16. Hats on the train

17. Infamous for Making Up Stories About Story Ideas • Stories came in many ways • Puzzling his puzzler • Thinking cap • Left field • Arizona desert • Why is it always rain ? Soldier in France • Horton, from Mulberry street, which came first the Who or the Egg?

18. Generating Ideas

19. McElligot’s Pool • Found his own look • Expensive to print • Caldecott

20. Finding Own Style

21. Bartholomew • One color • Caldecott

22. If I Ran the Zoo • Caldecott

23. Gerald McBoing-Boing • Animated • Oscar • CBS 13 episodes • Overall films a flop • Writing and illustrating

24. From LaJolla • Sneetches • Africa, think please • Horton Hears Who • Oh, The Thinks You Can Think • May 1954, Life article, illiterate adults, TV and comics partly to blame

25. The year of the Grinch • 12 years • One week

26. One Work Through Time Grinch

27. Grinch

28. Grinch

29. Grinch

30. Grinch

31. Year of the Cat • 1957 - new era in children’s books • Life magazine criticized Dick and Jane • Friend’s suggestion • 223 easy to read words • First two words on the list • Schools didn’t buy

32. Beginner Books • LeSieg didn’t author • 50 dollar challenge

33. First Priority • Funny • Dictionary of animals helped in many books • Rhyme and His toughest Audience • FEAR of Public Speaking

34. WWII, laughing and training

35. Always a Jokester • Fishing with Vater • Class clown • Naval Officer • Biggest Joke, His own children, Chrysanthemum-Pearl

36. Pulitzer 1984 • Best Seller for Adults • 2 titles • Butter Battle • Your Only Old Once

37. WW III • Mouth cancer • Butter Battle Book, 1984 • Test and treatments, Obsolete children • Gone is the yellow-faced Chinaman • 1990 New York Times Best Seller, for adults again

38. Other Famous Works • Cat in the Hat • Audrey is UPSET • Zax - political hardliner • Horton Hears a Who - Atomic Bomb

39. Post-humous • My Many Colored Days • Diffendoofer

40. Using Seuss in the classroom • Lists of Made Up Rhyming Words • Alliteration • Difference Between Real and Make-Believe • Bullying, Prejudice, Environmental Issues at an Appropriate Level • Seussianary • Thinks • Glunks • Increasing Comprehension • Increasing Fluency

41. AT hats • Gross grub on green - Green Eggs • Daisy Hats • Star Art • Finishing the Lorax - what happens to the seed • I Won’t Be a Star Bellied Sneetch • Not on any Beach • If I Ran the Zoo - imaginanimals • Seussanary • Tantilizing Tongue Twisters

42. More Uses - Even for Older Students • Poetic Style • Moral of the Story • Underlying/Implied Meanings • Visual Implications • Accessing Imagination • Generating Ideas • Model For Own Writing • Inspiration

43. High School • Yertle the Turtle - Sympathy for the underdog, Yertle is Hitler • Sneetches - tolerance, civil rights • Lorax - ecological awareness • Butter Battle - nuclear arms race

44. Using Seuss at home • Read • Teach • Learn • Laugh • Imagine • Play - YES PLAY, with words

45. Dr. Seuss Language • “Here” • “You can’t be here, I am here. You are there!” • Playing with language

46. BUT don’t Underestimate the BEST Reasons to Use Dr. Seuss • JUST FOR FUN

47. University of California San Diego

48. Accomplishments • 48 books • More than 200 million copies • 20 different languages • Postage stamps • Movies of his books • Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden • Geisel Library in LaJolla • Oscar • Pulitzer • Caldecott

49. Greatest Gift • W all need fun and laughter • Your children hear what you say, what can be better than saying it in an enjoyable setting? • Hold onto the magic of childhood

50. Words of Wisdom left • “Whenever things are a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself: ‘You can do better than this.’ The best slogan I can think of to leave with the U.S.A. would be: ‘We can do and we’ve got to do better than this.’”