Theodor Seuss Geisel timeline
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Dr. Seuss is Born
Theodor Seuss Geisel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts to Henrietta Seuss and Theodor Robert Geisel. His father, the son of German immigrants,... Read more
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Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) Attends Dartmouth College
Despite the fact that he had made no overtures to any of the fraternities, Ted was nonetheless surprised to not be invited by any of them to... Read more
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Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) Marries Helen Palmer
Dr. Seuss was born Theodor Geisel in Springfield, Massachusetts, on March 2, 1904. After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1925, he went to... Read more
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Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) Creates Artwork for the 'Flit' Ad Campaign
In 1928 Flit, then marketed by a newly formed subsidiary of Jersey Standard, Stanco Incorporated, became the subject of a very successful long... Read more
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'The Pocket Book of Boners' is Published
The Pocket Book of Boners is a book illustrated by Dr. Seuss, originally published as four separate books in 1931 by The Viking Press. In 1941,... Read more
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Theodore Seuss Geisel's 'Hejji' is Published
Hejji was an early creation of Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) and his only venture into the sunday comics pages. Hejji was a young apprentice Genie... Read more
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'And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street' is Published
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" is a book written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss and Robert Carington. Originally published in 1937,... Read more
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'The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins' is Published
Set in feudal times, the story begins in the Kingdom of Didd, when King Derwin is riding through a street past Bartholomew Cubbins, a poor boy in... Read more
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'The Seven Lady Godivas: The True Facts Concerning History's Barest Family' is Published
Mr. Geisel began using his middle name as a pen name for his cartoons because he hoped to use his surname as a novelist one day. But when he got... Read more
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'The King's Stilts' is Published
King Birtram’s order of business every day was to keep a watchful eye over the Kingdom of Binn. The kingdom was protected by the giant, knotted... Read more
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'Horton Hatches the Egg' is Published
I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent. Read more
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Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) Draws Political Cartoons for PM Magazine
These cartoons rail against isolationism, racism, and ant-Semitism with a conviction and fervor lacking in most other American editorial pages of... Read more
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Theodor Seuss Geisel Joins the Army
In 1942, Geisel turned his energies to direct support of the U.S. war effort. First, he worked drawing posters for the Treasury Department and the... Read more
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'Design For Death' is Released
An Academy Award winner for best documentary, the film opens with a notice that..."Exhibition of confiscated Japanese film material authorized by... Read more
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'McElligot's Pool' is Published
McElligot’s Pool is the delightfully told and illustrated story of a very patient young boy who fishes at McElligot’s Pool, despite being told by a... Read more
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'Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose' is Published
True to the title, Thidwick is a big hearted moose who has a hard time saying the word “no” when anyone imposes on his generosity. His inability to... Read more
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'Bartholomew and the Oobleck' is Published
Tired of snow, fog, rain, and sunshine, the king wants something new to fall from the sky. What he gets are green, gooey globs of oobleck that... Read more
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'If I Ran The Zoo' is Published
In 1950, Dr. Seuss published a book called “If I Ran the Zoo.” It contained the sentence: “I’ll sail to Ka-Troo, and bring back an IT-KUTCH, a... Read more
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'Gerald McBoing-Boing' is Released
This cartoon was directed by Robert "Bobe" Cannon, and appeared as part of UPA's "Jolly Frolics" series. What made it stand out from the UPA crowd... Read more
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'Scrambled Eggs Super' is Published
"And so," he informs his friend Liz, "I decided that, just for a change, I'd scramble a new kind of egg on the range." We're off on an epic journey... Read more
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'The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T.' is Released
Because here's a film, now more than 50 years old, that deserves just as much praise as Pixar, one every bit as magical as Up, albeit far, far... Read more
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'Horton Hears A Who' is Published
I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent. Read more
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'On Beyond Zebra' is Published
In his ceaseless quest to inspire readers to push their imaginations as far as possible, Dr. Seuss uses On Beyond Zebra to question the possibility... Read more
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'If I Ran the Circus' is Published
Behind Mr. Sneelock's ramshackle store, there's an empty lot. Little Morris McGurk is convinced that if he could just clear out the rusty cans, the... Read more
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Theodor Seuss Geisel Founds Beginner Books
By 1939, she realized acting was not her future, so she moved to New York, joined the advertising agency of McCann Erickson and began writing radio... Read more