Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

[CafeMom Team]

There are still many places I shall go. 

And it's thanks to you, I hope you know.

That reference to Dr. Seuss's "Oh The Places You'll Go!" is our attempt at honoring him the best way we know how -- by imitation. 

Today is Dr. Seuss's birthday, and we're celebrating the occasion with some fun stuff happening throughout CafeMom.

Visit the Babies group and enter the Favorite Dr. Seuss Contest to win a Dr. Seuss Book Collection.  While you're there, play some of their fun Dr. Seuss games. 

Speaking of babies and fun gifts for them, join in the fun and games at the March Baby Shower, taking place in the Pregnancy group.

Then head over to the Baby Buzz and read what our blogger will be reading to her twins tonight.

Now...

5 Fun Facts About Dr. Seuss

1.  Dr. Seuss's full name is Theodor ("Ted") Seuss Geisel.

2.  He first used the "Seuss" moniker when he got in trouble at Dartmouth and was stripped of his editor-in-chief position at the university's humor magazine.  He kept writing for the magazine as Seuss -- it was an easy way to slip his work past the university officials.

3.  He never had any children of his own.

4.  His editor bet him that he couldn't write a book using 50 words or less.  He won the bet with "Green Eggs and Ham." 
The fifty words used: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you.

5.  "Oh The Places You'll Go" sells almost 300,000 copies a year because it's given as a gift to college and high school graduates.  It's also the last book Dr. Seuss published before he died.

Bonus Fact:  He started using the "Dr." before Seuss in acknowledgement of his dad wanting him to get his Ph.D. from Oxford.  

/// The CafeMom Team 

[countryspun]

Mar. 2, 2010 at 10:41 AM

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss.

[morningglory1]

Mar. 2, 2010 at 10:41 AM

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Dr.Seuss!!!! I grew up with Dr. Seuss and so did my kids! I love Dr. Seuss!!!

[rose4607]

Mar. 2, 2010 at 10:54 AM

Happy b-day Dr. Seuss, my son's school is celebrating all week with mon-hat day, tues.-bed,white and blue day, weds.-mismatch day, thurs.- animal print day, and fri.- wear as much green as you can and they are going to have green eggs and ham for lunch! How fun we love Dr Seuss at my house!

[RaggedyAnne]

Mar. 2, 2010 at 10:58 AM

[Bekah062205]

Mar. 2, 2010 at 11:08 AM

i love all the books!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!

[Amy625]

Mar. 2, 2010 at 11:09 AM

Happy B-day Dr. Seuss! It's my B-day too!

[C_Kight]

Mar. 2, 2010 at 11:26 AM

I love Dr. Seuss books. I just bought the Horton Hears a Who movie for my boys and it arrieved in the mail today. I have just about all of the Dr. Seuss books.

[FIVEHAPPYHEARTS]

Mar. 2, 2010 at 11:34 AM

I LOVE GREEN EGGS AND HAM

[Lb128f]

Mar. 2, 2010 at 11:35 AM

[PinkSodaPop]

Mar. 2, 2010 at 11:45 AM

One fish, two fish... Red FiSh  BLue FiSh!

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Thank goodness for Dr. Suess --- Inspiring creativity, learning, and rhyming for all of eternity!