CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATION

Donald Pease, English professor at Dartmouth University, recounts the life of Theodor Geisel
Today, May 29th at 11am (ET)and at 11pm (ET)

Today celebrates the 105th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Seuss.

A collection of forty-three mostly out-of-print stories, poems, comic strips, primers, for children, edited by Julia Mickenberg and Philip Nel.

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I guess movie theaters could order these commercials. I found this ad at saturdaymorn.blogspot.com:

You can go on skates. You can go on skis. ... You can go in an old blue shoe.
Just go, go, GO!

THE POLITICAL DR. SEUSS

This Dr. Seuss Beer TrayThis jpeg is lifted from David Goldin's archives, where you can see David'swonderful work, and read about the day that David met the Dr.

via The Children's Picturebook Price Guide:
"As a child, I loved the story A Fish Out Of Water. It was, and remains, one of my favorite Beginner Books.

Written by Helen Palmer, the wife of Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, A Fish Out Of Water has a ‘preposterous-ness’ one associates with a Dr. Seuss story. Then it’s not surprising to discover the story is virtually identical to Seuss’s Gustav The Goldfish, which was published a decade earlier in the June 1950 Redbook Magazine!" Go to 1stedition.net to see more side by side comparisons.
Thank you, Linda & Stan Zielinski!

Anyone wanting to know just how an easy reader/picture book classic is made will be interested in seeing this Newsweek article about the upcoming Annotated Cat In the Hat.

...it took him a year and a half to write and draw the book, an experience that he once described as like “being lost with a witch in a tunnel of love.”

I love seeing the sketches paired with the final illustrations.

(Thanks, Fuse. By the way, siding with the fish doesn't make a person bad or uptight. That loose cannon Cat is scary.)

From monstersinmotion.com --Price: $125.

In 1938 Dr. Seuss and his publisher sold wall trophies "From the BOBO ISLES." Price: $3.75 to $15. For "the Walls of your Game-Room, Nursery or Bar!” How’s that for versatility? Thanks to Charles D. Cohen, author of "Seuss, The Whole Seuss and Nothing but the Seuss"