Fifty Years of 'The Cat in the Hat'

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<li>I occasionally called my kids Thing One and Thing Two.</li>
<li>Sad dad bad had…</li>
<li>Mr. Brown is out of town…</li>
<li>And On Beyond Zebra meant everything to little Alumother who was much better at reading books than playing with other kids:). The alphabet is, in fact, infinite.</li>
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<p>I thought all kids were called Thing one, Thing two, etc.</p>

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<p>btw - The library at UCSD is called the ‘Geisel Library’ thanks to contributions from ‘Dr. Seuss’ who was a La Jolla resident. There are some large ‘Cat in the Hat’ sculptures out in front of the building and the library has a large collection of original Dr. Seuss material so if you’re a Seuss fan and are in the area, you might want to check it out.</p>

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<p>I like almost all the Seuss books and characters except the cat in the hat- I never liked what he did, but still exposed my son to those books. I think I had the most fun with the fox in socks- as fast as I could go.</p>

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<p>There’s also The Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden at the Springfield Museums in Springfield, Massachusetts, the city where Theodor Seuss Geisel was born. It would bring out the kid in anyone.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.catinthehat.org/memorial.htm[/url]”>http://www.catinthehat.org/memorial.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p><a href=“http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/103-7649790-8967015?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=dr.+seuss+horton&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/103-7649790-8967015?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=dr.+seuss+horton&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Our favorite Dr. Seuss book is “There’s a Wocket in My Pocket.” At Dartmouth, they have green eggs and ham at the end of DOC (freshman orientation camping trip.) Here’s more:

I think he’s someone I’d love to have known.</p>

<p>Check this out… <a href=“http://www.dartmouth.edu/~drseuss/[/url]”>http://www.dartmouth.edu/~drseuss/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>My favorite was always “If I Ran the Zoo by Gerald McGrew”. </p>

<p>Cat in the Hat, Grinch, and Green Eggs are now available in Latin. My son got Latin Green Eggs for Christmas.</p>

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<p>I received the first edition of The Cat in the Hat for my fifth or sixth birthday. I still have it, tattered and well-read.</p>

<p>My mom was a kindergarten teacher for 30+ years, and she often did author/illustrator studies with her classes. One year she focused on Dr. Seuss and had her class paint a huge McElligot’s Pool full of fish. She packaged the artwork up with a class letter and sent it off to Dr. Seuss. He sent them back an autographed photograph and an original poem rhyming McElligot’s Pool with the name of their school. The school secretary called my mom on the intercom and told her to send someone down to the office quickly because there was a package from Dr. Seuss! My mother still has the framed photo and poem on her wall many years later, at age 77.</p>

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<p>yes, well. hmmm.
Thing 1 and Thing 2.
Universal if you think about it…</p>