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Dr. Seuss. What would we do without him?. One of the most famous authors of all times is Dr. Seuss!. Dr. Seuss was born in 1904. He died in 1991 when he was 87 years old. If he was still living, this year he would have 105 candles on his birthday cake. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Dr. Seuss
What would we do without him?
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One of the most famous authors of all
times isDr. Seuss!
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Dr. Seuss was born in 1904. He died in 1991 when he was 87 years old. If he was still living, this year he would have 105 candles on his birthday cake.
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Dr. Seuss’s real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel. His friends called him Ted, or Mr. Geisel. Seuss was his middle name. The doctor part he made up!
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Ted also wrote under another pen-name or pseudonym…Theo LeSieg.
LeSieg is Ted’s real last name… spelled backwards!!!
LeSieg = Geisel
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When Ted went tocollege, he drew cartoons for theschool newspaper.He was the classclown, a practicaljoker, and was votedthe least likely to succeed in his class.
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After college and travel,Ted Geisel went into the advertising business in New York City. Life was tough until he got a job to draw ads for Flit, a company that made bug spray.
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Dr. Seuss thought of his firstidea for a children’s book in 1936 while on a vacation cruise. The rhythm of the ship’s engine helped him thinkof the rhyme of his first book.Can you guess which one ?
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This is Dr. Seuss’s very first book. He tried very hard to get it made into a book - but forty three different book companies didn’t like it! Finally a friend who was a book publisher decided to give it a try. Now it is famous.
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The next books he wrote were The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, The King’s Stilts, and Bartholomew and the Oobleck.
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One day Dr. Seuss was sitting in his office with the windows open. A breeze lifted a piece of paper with an elephant sketched on it and laid it down on another drawing of a tree. “All I had to do was figure out what that elephant was doing in that tree.”That story became …
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In 1941, Dr. Seuss took a break from writing books. He cared about politics and during World War II drew many cartoons for a magazine. He also joined the United States Army and helped to make movies for the soldiers.
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Dr. Seuss kept writing. He wrote McElligot’s Pool, and Thidwick the Big Hearted Moose, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
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In 1950 a man named John Hersey studied how kids learn to read. He found out that children were having a hard time learning to read because their books were boring!
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One of Dr. Seuss’s friends told him he should write a funny book with only a few easy words in it, for kids who were learning to read. It took Dr. Seuss 9 months and he used only 220 easy words. Everybody loved it! That book was…
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A few years later a friend gave him another challenge. Could Dr. Seuss write a book with only 50 different words in it? It was difficult, but Dr. Seuss wrote another great story. Later he said, “It is the only book I wrote that still makes me laugh.”Can you guess the title?
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In one survey,kids said this was one of theirfavorite books.It has sold morecopies than anyother title -
over 6,000,000 !!!
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Dr. Seuss also created his own book company to produce a series of books called BEGINNER BOOKS that used
pictures and words to get kids to read! Anytime you see this icon…you know this is
a book by Dr. Seuss’s book company!
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This beginner book was one of the first books Mrs. DeFrank learned to read. Even
though it was not written by Dr. Seuss, it was published by BEGINNER BOOKS!
This is still one of Mrs. DeFrank’s all-time
favorites!
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When Dr. Seuss was a boy his father worked at a zoo. He was a zookeeper. This is another famous book Dr. Seuss wrote.
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Dr. Seuss is different from many writers because most of his books are written in rhyme. To make his rhymes, he would often make up new words, like the Sneetches, the Lorax, and Zizzer-zazzer-zuzz.
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Dr. Seuss’s books were fun to read but they taught kids about life too.
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A person’s a person, no matter how small! Horton Hears a Who!
Dr. Seuss helps us care about others.
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Dr. Seuss teaches us to care for ourselves.
Come on! Open your mouth and sound off at the sky.
Shout loud at the top of your voice, I AM I !!!!!
ME! I am I! And I may not know why
But I know that I like it. Three cheers!!
I AM I !!!
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Dr. Seuss teaches us to be true to ourselves.
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.You can steer yourselfAny direction you choose.You’re on your own.And you know what you know.And YOU are the guyWho’ll decide where to go.
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Dr. Seuss can teach us to be fair and treat people equally.
I know up on top you are seeing great sights,
But down at the bottom we, too, have rights.
And the turtles, of course Yertle the Turtle All the turtles are free As turtles, and maybe, all creatures should be.
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Dr. Seuss wrote The Sneetches to address how different groups of people didn’t like each other during World War II.
I’m quite happy to say that the Sneetches got really smart on that day.
The day they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches.
And no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches.
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Dr Seuss books canteach us aboutdiversity.We see them come.We see them go.Some are fast.And some are slow.Not one of themIs like another.Don’t ask why.Go ask your mother.
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Dr. Seuss wrote books with messages about getting along, and pollution.
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This book was made from a movie Dr. Seuss wrote. He lovedHollywood and film-making. Many of his bookswere turned into made- for -TV specials..
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All together Dr. Seuss wrote 44 different books. They have been published in many different languages, like English, French, German, Chinese, Polish and Russian. More than 100 million copies have been sold all over the world.
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Dr. Seuss was still writing books when he died on Sept. 24,1991 at the age of 87. His wife and his friends finished his last book, Daisy-Head Mayzie.
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In 1997, schools all over the United States chose March 2, Dr. Seuss’s
birthday, as a day to celebrate reading. We want people to know
that reading is important and lots of fun!
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Now at schools around the country we celebrate Dr. Seuss’s Birthday.
Miss Headrick’s Kindergarten
2000-2001
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Special readers share some great stories.
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We’ll dress up like the Cat!
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Kids love green eggs & ham!
Eat green eggs & ham
on March 2nd!
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Kids love Dr. Seuss!
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• Bullock Kids
love Read Across
America!
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The more that you read,The more things you will know,The more that you learn,The more places you’ll go.
Dr. Seuss
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To learn more about Dr. Seuss, read these books from the library…
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Sources:
• Dr. Seuss by Jill C. Wheeler, Abdo & Daughters, 1992
• On the Loose With Dr. Seuss by Shirley Cook, Incentive Publications, 1994
• The Life of Dr. Seuss NJEA Review, February 1998
• Book images from Amazon.com
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• By Karen E. DeFrank and Tony Pope• Library Media Specialists from Glassboro, New
Jersey and Rome, Georgia• 2004