Theodor Seuss Geisel March 3, 1904 Springfield, Massachusetts September 24, 1991

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Theodor Seuss GeiselMarch 3, 1904 Springfield,
MassachusettsSeptember 24, 1991

• Biography project
• Kathrine Crawford

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Life Information

• His father was a German-immigrant who ran a
  brewery
• As a child he liked to read
• comic strips, write humorous poems, and drawl
  cartoons
• He attended Dartmouth college and Oxford
  University

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Career Information

• He began his career in advertising after college
  drawling many cartoons that appeared in leading
  American magazines.
• His first childrens book came out in 1937, And
  to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street.
• Over the span of his career as a writer, he was
  the author and illustrator of 44 childrens books

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Book Information

• Cat in the Hat by Dr. Suess
• And To Think That I Saw it On Mulberry Street
• Green Eggs and Ham

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Works Cited

• www.seussville.com
• www.catinthehat.org
• www.nea.org
• www.seuss.org