Who was Dr. Seuss?

Dr. Seuss was born on March 2, 1904. His real name was Theodore (Ted) Seuss Geisel.Dr. Seuss was his “pen” name.Maybe he used Seuss because it was his middle name and added the “Dr.” just for fun.

This is a picture of Dr. Seuss and his wife Helen which he met while in collegeat Dartmouth.

The first book he wrote for children was called And To Think I Saw It On Mulberry Street.

The Cat in the Hat is Dr. Seuss’ most famous book. He wrote it as a school reader and it was instantly loved by children and teachers.

Dr. Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham after a friend bet him that he could not write a book with only using 50 words.

Another of Dr. Seuss’ most famous stories is a holiday book called How the Grinch

Stole Christmas.

Dr. Seuss loved to writes stories with a rhyming pattern. If he needed to, he would make up a word to help him rhyme his story. This makes his stories fun to read!

How many rhyming words can you think of that rhyme with cat?

Are all of the words you named real?

Can you read all the words that rhyme with cat? How do

we know that these words rhyme?

Cat bat dat gat fat hat jat kat lat mat

Nat pat qat rat sat tat vat wat xat yat

zat

Dr. Seuss wrote and illustrated 46 wonderful children’s stories. He died at the age of 87 in 1991.

Dr. Seuss was an amazing author and illustrator whose work is still very popular today. His books and characters are apart of our everyday lives.