Dr. Seuss

by Janeen R. Adil

Traces the life and career of the children's author who wrote forty-four books over his lifetime, including "The Cat in the Hat" and "How the Grinch stole Christmas."

32 pages, Library Binding

First published June 1, 2004

Reviews

[Destiny Valenzano · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dr. Seuss is an amazing writer. It just didn’t happen over night for him. He started writing when he was and just keep going with it. Dr. Seuss Great Story Tell will give you so much information about him. This book is informational, but also just a great book to read.
The impression of the book is that it can give hope to anyone who wants to start becoming a writer. It is telling the reader that if they want to become a great storyteller that they just need to go for it. That all the information about Dr. Seuss is to help a new writer come along.
The book is good for a young child who needs to do a book report on an author. I don’t see many kids just reading it for fun. The author could of made it a little more fun for kids to read,like make it like a Dr. Seuss book.
The book give good information about Dr. Seuss. The book is broken up into different chapter for a big part in Dr. Seuss’s life. The pictures of the real Dr. Seuss make it more interesting for the kids to see who he really was and to see what he looks like. Showing the books that he wrote helps the kids connect who he was.

[Rochetta G · Rating 4 out of 5]

Since we celebrated Dr. Seuss’ birthday last month, I though it only fitting that I read more about the influential writer of children’s literature. His real name is Theodore Geisel. He began writing while he and his wife were on a cruise to Europe. The boat made these strange sounds for extend periods of time, he couldn’t get the sound out of his head so he began writing to the beat of the ships engine. Theodore learned the value of hard work. He drew all his own characters. He wanted to make these the words and pictures where just right. He wrote 44 children’s books over his lifetime. From his books you can tell his imagination ran wild when writing. The illustrator in this book used actual photographs of Theodore, his family and different accomplishments. This book is unattractive and screams boring, but it was actually a good read and very informative, without the 200 page synopsis. This book is recommended for intermediate readers.