As a huge fan of Dr. Seuss, I was rather interested in this blog post by Chuck Miller: Don’t cry because you thought he said it. Smile because he didn’t. It dispels the myth that Dr. Seuss had uttered some trite thing, for which he had been attributed, just like pictures of late Andy Rooney and Ronald Reagan are posted all over Facebook with pithy quotes that they did not say.
There are plenty of things he DID say that are worthwhile. So much so that, even though my daughter seems to have outgrown Yertle the Turtle, I most assuredly have not. While we let her cull her book collection, the Wife and I have reclaimed some of the books that she’s given a pass on. Maybe she’ll rediscover them; maybe not. Oh, and that copy of Bartholomew and the Oobleck was MINE in the first place!
I invite you to:
Listen to Neil Gaiman read “Green Eggs and Ham, plus read about The Weird Strategy Dr. Seuss Used to Create His Greatest Work (And Why You Should Use It, Too).
Read some Brainy Quotes.
Listen to a sixth grade student reading The Lorax.
Watch Dr. Seuss and Social Issues. CSPAN, March 2013
Theodore Geisel would have been 110 today.