<p>I love today’s Google splash page.</p>
<p>Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss</p>
<p>Very cool - thanks for posting!</p>
<p>It’s adorable.</p>
<p>I’m wearing my Cat in the Hat hat today to work!</p>
<p>One fish
Two fish
Red fish
Blue fish !!</p>
<p>I’m a program director for a literacy program - we are celebrating Dr. Seuss all day!!!</p>
<p>(though honestly, I’ve never been a fan of alot of his books!!!)</p>
<p>I saw that early this morning and just had to smile. I love Seuss!!</p>
<p>Cute!</p>
<p>There was an article in NYTimes online about those geniuses at Google and what they have come up with. Did you know the search engine is also a calculator? Just type in your equation. You can find movie times by typing movies: (your actual 5 digit zip) </p>
<p>Someone at Google reasoned that when people are home sick, they search for info on illness, so they used this data to pinpoint outbreaks of flu, in some cases 2 weeks before the NIH!</p>
<p>I never much liked his illustrations, but the first book I ever remember owning is *Green Eggs and Ham. *</p>
<pre><code>I would not, could not, in a box.
I could not, would not, with a fox.
I will not eat them with a mouse.
I will not eat them in a house.
I will not eat them here or there.
I will not eat them anywhere.
I do not eat green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
</code></pre>
<p>One of my favorite stories I like to share when I train professionals or parents:</p>
<p>Like lots of kids, young Theodore Geisel used to sit in school and doodle strange little drawings. He took an art class in high school. The teacher told Theodore not to plan to make a living from drawing. Youre never going to make it.</p>
<p>After high school, Theodore went to Dartmouth College, the prestigious Ivy League school and took a class on writing because he thought maybe he could become a writer. Again he heard a teacher encourage him to find another calling. You dont have what it takes.</p>
<p>Theodores fraternity voted him least likely to succeed. No matter. He kept drawing the strange characters and writing funny stories. He sent them to twenty-seven publishers, and twenty-seven publishers turned him down, saying there was no market.</p>
<p>The twenty-eighth publisher proved them all wrong, and Dr. Seuss was born. Theodore Geisel, the doodling student without a future in art and writing, wrote forty-eight books translated into twenty languages that sold over two hundred million copies.</p>
<p>Lots of people called Theodore Geisel a failure. At times he must have thought he was. But someone saw something that other people didnt see and he became a success.</p>
<p>Author, Christian Youth News</p>
<p>I have to share my Dr. Seuss experience.</p>
<p>I am convinced that Hop on Pop taught both my sons to read. It was the one book that both of them (3 years apart) asked me to read over and over and over again. I swear I’ve read it out loud 1,000 times in my life.</p>
<p>After awhile, they would just read it themselves (each at the age of 3). Big deal, I thought, they’ve memorized the book.</p>
<p>But out of curiosity, I would give them a different Dr. Seuss book (one they had never seen) and, while they didn’t know every word, they would just start reading aloud! </p>
<p>Personally, growing up, my favorite was One Fish… I loved the part where everyone in the book had to get a hair cut everyday.</p>
<p>Go DOG Go was what our DS1 was obsessed with. DS2 was One Fish. He was adorable because evrytime I would say fish, he would put his finger to his mouth (i.e. hush style) and say fish throwing his finger out…the only problem was one day at church he noticed the stained glass of fishes and from there on out all he would say was ! Fish Two Fish in the middle of mass as I hushed him…he was @18 mos old.</p>
<p>When my son was in third grade, they had Dr. Seuss Day. It was a marvelous day with each kid having a hat and moving from activity to activity that was related to Dr. Seuss. Each class had put together their own book in his style and they were amazing. Because it was so labor intensive, lots of parents got to volunteer. It was a lot of fun. We still have the hat. If memory serves correctly, lunch was…green eggs and ham.</p>
<p>Dr. Seuss was a Dartmouth alum and Dartmouth students are fed green eggs and ham on their freshmen trips.</p>
<p>I read Dr. Seuss books endlessly to my kids and really enjoyed them.</p>
<p>There are some nice Cat in the Hat sculptures outside of the ‘Geisel library’ at UCSD along with other Dr. Seuss memorabilia inside.</p>
<p>One of the first books I remember is “Horton Hatches the Egg”–and it came up on the Jeopardy qualifying test!</p>
<p>Ah, but have you read The Seven Lady Godivas?</p>
<p>: )</p>
<p>I think Dr. Seuss was a genius. His character creations were unique. His use of simple language in creative ways is also unique. And then his children’s stories have many deeper meanings and layers. </p>
<p>abasket, thanks for that story…it is an inspiring one, particularly for young people. </p>
<p>My daughter has portrayed Sam I Am in several venues across the country.</p>
<p>Foot Book was the first book <em>each</em> of my kids read <em>on his own</em>. I could recite it right now. . . (“Left foot left foot left foot right, Feet in the morning, Feet at night. . .”)</p>
<p>It is adorable. Seeing it made me smile. :)</p>
<p>The story you shared was interesting, abasket. Thanks for sharing.</p>