WISDOM OF DR.SEUSS

GERALD McBOING BOING

Sid — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:18:00 +0000

“This is the story of Gerald McCloy
and the strange thing that happened to that little boy
They say it all happened when Gerald was two
that’s the age most kids start talking..
well at least most of them do
When he started talking
you know what he said
He didn’t talk words
he went Boing! Boing! instead”

Gerald McBoing Boing tells the story of a small boy who when he first tries to talk can only utter sound effects like ‘Boing! Boing! His parents are shocked and call in a doctor who says he has no cure for the noises.

Gerald soon goes to school but is sent home because he goes ‘Cuckoo! He is rejected by the other kids because of the sounds he makes and his parents are annoyed so he runs away from home in despair.

He then comes across the head of the ‘Bong! Bong! Bong! radio station who hires Gerald as his entire sound effects department. Gerald parents are now proud of him, and he becomes rich and famous because he doesn’t speak words, he goes ‘Boing! Boing! instead.

HOW LUCKY YOU ARE !

Sid — Sat, 29 May 2010 01:36:11 +0000

You think you’ve got it bad? asks Dr. Seuss. Consider then Gucky Gown or the Green-bearded Schlottz or the Brothers Ba-zoo, who all are “muchly much-much more unlucky than you!” Believe it; Dr. Seuss introduces a whole company of unluckies–from humans to Irish ducks to left socks–all in shimmeringly hapless circumstances.

GREEN EGGS AND HAM

Sid — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 22:48:30 +0000

Dr. Seuss turns 50 simple words into magic in this time-honored classic.

Sam-I-am won’t give up! He keeps trying to get the grumpy grown-up in the story to taste green eggs and ham.

No matter how Sam-I-am presents the green eggs and ham (in a box, with a fox, in the rain, on a train), the stubborn grouch refuses to try them.

Finally, Sam-I-am’s pesky persistence pays off. A crowd of open-mouthed onlookers watch in suspense as the old grouch takes a bite. And?

…SAY! The old sourpuss’s face is wreathed in smiles as he gratefully acknowledges, “I do so like green eggs and ham. Thank you, thank you, Sam-I-am!”Sam I am

I am Sam
Sam I am
That Sam-I-am!
That Sam-I-am!
I do not like that Sam-I-am!

Do you like
green eggs and ham?
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
I do not like
green eggs and ham.

Would you like them
here or there?

I would not like them
here or there.
I would not like them anywhere.

I do not like
green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.

Would you like them in a house?
Would you like them with a mouse?

I do not like them
in a house.
I do not like them
with a mouse.
I do not like them
here or there.
I do not like them
anywhere.
I do not like
green eggs and ham.
I do not like them,
Sam-I-am.

Would you eat them
in a box?
Would you eat them
with a fox?

Not in a box.
Not with a fox.
Not in a house.
Not with a mouse.
I would not eat them
here or there.
I would not eat them anywhere.
I would not eat green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.

BIOGRAPHY-DR.SEUSS CHILDHOOD

Sid — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:01:04 +0000

” A person is a person, no matter how small!”

Words fascinated Ted at an early age, a fascination aided,and incited by his family. His sister, Margaretha, called herself Marnie Mecca Ding Ding Guy. His grandfather owned a brewery which was called Come Back and Guzzle by the locals. Ted’s father told Ted him he must always strive for excellence, that “if you don’t, you end up with schlock.”

Ted’s father was a park commissioner in charge of a huge park that included within its borders a zoo. This became one of young Ted’s favorite haunts, and he loved to hear his father tell stories about the animals. Ted drew the animals that he saw and heard about. His parents encouraged his drawing despite the fact that the animals never quite looked like what they started out to be. One of his mother’s favorites, drawn on the wall, was a Wynnmph with ears three yards long.

Ted learned to read while still very young. By six years of age, he was already reading Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson. His favorite early book, however, was The Hole, a riotous book about a gun that is shot in the house whose bullet pierces the water heater and, as the house filled with water, the bullet keeps going, piercing everything in its path, through walls and furniture and doors until, in the kitchen, it hits a cake that was so hard it stops the bullet.

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”

IF I RAN THE CIRCUS

Sid — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:13:04 +0000

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 dead tree, and the old cars, nothing would prevent him from using the lot for the amazing, world-beating, Circus McGurkus. The more elaborate Morris’ dreams about the circus become, the more they depend on the sleepy-looking and innocent Sneelock, who stands outside his ramshackle store sucking on a pipe, oblivious to the fate that awaits him in the depths of Morris’s imagination. He doesn’t yet know that he’ll have to dispense 500 gallons of lemonade, be lassoed by a Wily Walloo, wrestle a Grizzly-Ghastly, and ski down a slope dotted with giant cacti. But if his performance is up to McGurkian expectations, then “Why, ladies and gentlemen, youngsters and oldsters, your heads will quite likely spin right off your shouldsters!”

YOU’RE ONLY OLD ONCE

Sid — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:58:46 +0000

You’re Only Old Once! A Book for Obsolete Children is a 1986 picture book for adults by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel). Released on Geisel’s eighty-second birthday, the book follows an elderly man on a visit to the Golden Years Clinic, where he endures long waits and bizarre medical tests.

You’re Only Old Once was written shortly after Geisel had suffered through a series of illnesses, during which he spent a considerable amount of time in hospital waiting rooms. To pass the time, he began sketching images of hospital machines and scenes of medical procedures. He later began to work those ideas into a book. Geisel quipped that he was “fed up with a social life consisting entirely of doctors”.

You’re Only Old Once was Seuss’s first adult book since The Seven Lady Godivas was published in 1939. The Seven Lady Godivas sold less than 500 copies when it was first released,but You’re Only Old Once remained on the New York Times Best Sellers List for over 60 weeks

WOCKET IN MY POCKET

Sid — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:54:22 +0000

‘There’s a Wocket in my Pocket’, first published in 1974 for the ‘early reader’. The story is about an unfortunate boy who is worryingly accepting of the furry green Wocket protruding from the back pocket of his trousers, faces the daily trauma of having a Noothgrush on his toothbrush and a Quimney up his chimney with a bravery that is second to none, only to be faced by an extravaganza of beasts when he unwittingly discovers no less than a Teller, a Nellar, a Gellar, a Dellar, a Bellar, a Wellar, and, who’d have believed it, a gangling great Zellar, all in the basement of his brightly decorated, art nouveau house.

“THE CAT IN THE HAT COMES BACK”

Sid — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:41:28 +0000

The Cat in the Hat Comes Back

The Cat in the Hat made a return appearance in this 1958 sequel. On this occasion, he leaves Thing One and Thing Two at home, but does bring along Little Cat A, nested inside his hat. Little Cat A doffs his hat to reveal Little Cat B, who in turn reveals C, and so on down to the microscopic Little Cat Z, who turns out to be the key to the plot. The crisis involves a pink bathtub ring and other pink residue left by the Cat after he snacks on a cake in the bathtub with the water running. Preliminary attempts to clean it up fail as they only spread the mess elsewhere, including a dress, the wall, a pair of ten dollar shoes, the bed, and then eventually outside where a “spot killing” war takes place between the mess, the Cat, Little Cats A through V, and an arsenal of primitive weapons including pop guns, bats, and a lawnmower. Unfortunately, the initial battle to rid the mess only makes it into an entire yard-covering spot. But then Little Cats V, W, X, and Y take off their hats to uncover Little Cat Z, who takes his hat off and unleashes a “Voom” which cleans up the back yard and puts all of the other Little Cats back into the Cat in the Hat’s hat.

The book ends in a burst of flamboyant versification, with the full list of little cats arranged into a metrically-perfect rhymed quatrain, designed to teach the reader the alphabet.

“THE CAT IN THE HAT”

Sid — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:51:13 +0000

The Cat in the Hat, was written by Dr. Seuss in 1957. The story is of two children and there cynical talking goldfish who are left alone in the house when their parents leave. It is raining so the kids are left inside with nothing to do. The Cat in the Hat comes along with thing one and thing two and proceeds to try to entertain the children with a large amount of chaos resulting.

The book itself is considered an impressive feat of skill as Dr.Seuss editor required him to use a list of words no longer than 223 words, but he decided to write the book because he felt there were not enough entertaining stories being used to teach children.

“We looked!
Then we saw him
step in on the mat!
We looked!
And we saw him!
The Cat in the Hat!”

“I know it is wet
And the sun is not sunny.
But we can have
Lots of good fun
that is funny!”

“Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me NOW!
It is fun to have fun
But you have
to know how.”

“’Have no fear, little fish,’
Said the Cat in the Hat.
‘These Things are
good Things.’
And he gave them a pat”

“I know some good games we could play,”
Said the cat.
“I know some new tricks,”
Said the Cat in the Hat.
“A lot of good tricks.
I will show them to you.
Your mother
Will not mind at all if I do”

“Then our mother came in
And she said to us two,
‘Did you have any fun?
Tell me. What did
you do?”
And Sally and I did not
know what to say.
Should we tell her
The things that went on
there that day?”

“Well…what would YOU do
If your mother asked you?”

POETRY BY DR.SEUSS

Sid — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:58:01 +0000

When I was a teacher of 4th graders,there was no more favorite time for them and me,then to read one of Dr. Seuss’ books…even now I have very pleasant and vivid memories of those experiences.

How did it get so late so soon?
It’s night before it’s afternoon.
December is here before it’s June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?
~Dr. Seuss

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You’re on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.
~Dr. Seuss

Waiting for the fish to bit
Or waiting for wind to fly a kite.
Or waiting around for Friday night
Or waiting perhaps for their UncleJake
Or a pot to boil or a better break
Or a string of pearls or a pair of pants
Or a wig with curls or another chance.
Everyone is just waiting.
~Dr. Seuss

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead and some come from behind.
But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready you see.
Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
~Dr. Seuss

Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCave
Had twenty-three sons, and she named them all Dave?
Well, she did. And that wasn’t a smart thing to do.
You see, when she wants one, and calls out “Yoo-Hoo!
Come into the house, Dave!” she doesn’t get one.
All twenty-three Daves of hers come on the run!
This makes things quite difficult at the McCaves’
As you can imagine, with so many Daves.
And often she wishes that, when they were born,
She had named one of them Bodkin Van Horn.
And one of them Hoos-Foos. And one of them Snimm.
And one of them Hot-Shot. And one Sunny Jim.
Another one Putt-Putt. Another one Moon Face.
Another one Marvin O’Gravel Balloon Face.
And one of them Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate…
But she didn’t do it. And now it’s too late.~Dr. Seuss