Happy Seuss Day!

[primsong]

It is the birthday of Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Suess - which in my case means I get to give a presentation about his life to the first and second grade classes about an hour from now. I wrote up a biography for him at about their level of understanding and get to do a Q & A on him and his life. What an interesting man he was. :-)

My favorite thing was the way he kept a closet full of crazy hats in the observatory he used for a studio. Whenever writers block loomed, he would put on a silly hat to get back in the mood. That and how cranky he would get when well-meaning printers would "correct" his colors to make the trees green instead of pink, etc... Heh.

Wear a bow tie and read a few rhyming tongue-twisters today. Enjoy!

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[primsong.livejournal.com]

Thanks - it went well. I spent about half an hour with each class in their classrooms, talking about him and answering questions. It's fun when they all exclaim with excited recognition when I would talk about how he wrote this title or that one. He wrote some pretty good stuff for adults too - smart man.

I know what you mean about the Lorax - and then there were those "green pants with nobody inside them" that scared the tar out of me when I was very small. What a gift he had.