Dr. Seuss

“I look at the world through the wrong end of a telescope.”

"A person's a person, no matter how small," Theodor Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, would say. "Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained and delighted."

Brilliant, playful, and always respectful of children, Dr. Seuss charmed his way into the consciousness of four generations of youngsters and parents. In the process, he helped millions of children learn to read.

Theodor Seuss Geisel – better known to millions of his fans as Dr. Seuss – was born the son of a brewer and park superintendent in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1904. After studying at Dartmouth College, in New Hampshire, and later at Oxford University in England (where he met his first wife Helen Palmer), he became a magazine humorist and cartoonist and an advertising man. He soon turned his many talents to writing children`s books and his first book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street was published in 1937.

His greatest claim to fame was the one and only The Cat in the Hat, published in 1957, the first of a hugely successful range of early learning books collectively known as Beginner Books. In all Dr. Seuss wrote more than 40 children’s books during a career that spanned over 50 years, picking up numerous awards, including two Emmy awards for television and a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation along the way.

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Featured Books, with extracts by Dr. Seuss

The Cat In The Hat
Dr. Seuss
Classic and best-selling, the rhyming verse story of The Cat in the Hat remains as fresh as when it was first published. Arriving announced and uninvited the exuberant Cat shocks Sally and her brother with the total mayhem he causes....
Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2010
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The Cat In The Hat
Dr. Seuss
Classic and best-selling, the rhyming verse story of The Cat in the Hat remains as fresh as when it was first published. Arriving announced and uninvited the exuberant Cat shocks Sally and her brother with the total mayhem he causes....
Featured in: 5+ readers | Bookshelf Essentials
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/03/2007
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Dr. Seuss A Classic Treasury
Dr. Seuss
This is one of the most perfect books to give a young child this Christmas as parent and child can share it with equal enthusiasm.  Seuss has created the most entertaining rhyming text that is both clever and laugh out...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/11/2006
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Green Eggs and Ham
Dr. Seuss
Hilarious and with a memorable rhyming text, this is the perfect advocate for the adage, you don’t know if you like something until you’ve tried it. Sam won’t eat green eggs and ham. However they are disguised the list of...
Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 19/04/2004
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Hop on Pop
Dr. Seuss
Dr Seuss’ original combination of humour and simplicity makes his books perfect for early readers. Hop and Pop, Cup and Pup, Mouse and Mouse – Dr Seuss shows how simply words are constructed and therefore how they can be broken...
Featured in: 5+ readers | Reluctant Readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2003
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