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Dr Seuss

Male : Children's writer and illustrator with German background
Nationality : American Place of Birth : Springfield, Massachusetts

Date of Birth : 1904 Date of Death : 1991 Age : 87

Pseudonyms : Theodor Seuss Geisel. Theo le Sieg

Other Work : Freelance cartoonist

Education : Dartmouth College & Lincoln College, Oxford
1931-1940
Boners
(1931 Viking, NY)
More Boners
(1931 Viking, NY)
Alexander ABINGDON : The Omnibus Boners
(1931 Blue Ribbon NY)
Secrets of the Deep or the Perfect Yachtsman
(1935 Esomarine Oils & Greases)
- by Old Capt Taylor.
And to Think That I saw it on Mulberry Street
(1937 Vanguard Press) (1939 Country Life)
The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins
(1938 Vanguard Press) (1940 OUP)
American editions by Random House & UK by Collins
The King's Stilts
(1939) (1942 Hamish Hamilton)
The Seven Lady Godivas
(1939 RH)
Horton Hatches the Egg
(1940) (1942 HH)

1941-1950
McElligot's Pool
(1947) (1975)
Thidwick, the Big-hearted Moose
(1948) (1968)
Bartholemew and the Oobleck
(1949 RH)
If I Ran the Zoo
(1950) (1969)

1951-1950
Scrambled Eggs Super !
(1953 RH)
Horton Hears a Who !
(1954) (1976)
On Beyond Zebra
(1955 RH)
If I Ran the Circus
(1956) (1969)
The Cat in the Hat
(1957) (1958 Hutchinson)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
(1957) (1973)
[Filmed in 2000]
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back !
(1958 Beginner Books, NY) (1961)
Yertle the Turtle & Other stories
(1958) (1963)
Happy Birthday to You !
(1959 RH)
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
(1960) (1962)
Green Eggs and Ham
(1960) (1962)

1961-1965
The Sneetches & Other Stories
(1961) (1965)
Sleep Book
(1962) (1964)
Hop on Pop
(1963) (1964)
ABC
(1963) (1964)
The Cat in the Hat Dictionary in French, by the Cat Himself
(1964) (1967) - with Philip D Eastman
Fox in Socks
(1965) (1966)
I Had Trouble in Getting Solla Sollew
(1965) (1967)

1966-1970
The Cat in the Hat Songbook
(1967) (1968)
The Foot Book
(1968) (1969)
My Book About Me
(1969) (1983) - Roy McKie
I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today & Other Stories
(1969) (1970)
I Can Draw it Myself
(1970) (1971)
Mr Brown Can Moo ! Can You ?
(1970) (1971)

1971-1975
The Lorax
(1971) (1972)
Marvin K Mooney, Will you Please Go Now ?
(1972) (1973)
Did I Ever Tell you How Lucky You Are ?
(1973) (1974)
The Shape of Me and Other stuff
(1973) (1974)
There's a Wocket in My Pocket !
(1974) (1975)
Great Day for Up !
(1974) (1975) - Quentin Blake
Oh, the Things You Can Think
(1975) (1976)
because a Little Bug Went Ka-Choo
(1975) (1976) - as Rosetta Stone

American editions by Random House & UK by Collins
After 1976
That Cat's Quizzer
(1976) (1977)
Hooper Humperdink ... ? Not Him !
(1976) (1977) - Charles Martin
I Can Read with My Eyes Shut !
(1978) (1979)
Oh Say Can You Say ?
(1979) (1980)
Hunches in Bunches
(1982) (1982)
The Butter Battle Book
(1984 Random House) - 500 de luxe
You're Only Old Once
(1986) (1986 Fontana Pb)
Beginner Book Dictionary
(1986) (1987)
Dr Seuss from Then and Now
(1986)
I'm Not Going to Get Up Today
(1987) (1988)
Oh, the Places You'll Go !
(1990) (1991)
Daisy head Mayzie
(1995) (1999)

VERSE BY 'THEO LE SIEG'
Ten Apples Up on Top
(1961) (1963) - Roy McKie
I Wish That I Had Duck Feet
(1965) (1967) - B Tobey
Come Over to My House
(1966) (1967) - Richard Erdoes
The Eye Book
(1968) (1969) - Richard Erdoes
In a People House
(1972) (1973) - Richard Erdoes
The Many Mice of Mr Brice
(1973) (1974) - Richard Erdoes
Wacky Wednesday
(1974) (1975) - George Booth
Would you Rather be a Bullfrog ?
(1975) (1976) - Richard Erdoes
Hooper Humperdink - ? Not Him !
(1976) (1977) - Charles E Martin
Please try to Remember the First of Octember
(1977) (1978) - Arthur Cummings
Maybe you Should fly a Jet ! Maybe you Should be a Vet !
(1980) (1981)
The Tooth Book
(1981) (1982) - Richard Erdoes

READING
Judith Morgan & Neil Morgan : Dr Seuss and Mr Geisel
(1996 Random House)
Richard H Minear : Dr Seuss Goes to War - The World War II Editorial Cartoons of
Theodor Seuss Geisel
(2000 The New Press £16.95)

Related Writers

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See also

Quentin Saxby Blake
Caldecott Award, 1938-1974