Today's Photo of the Week is from 1959 and depicts a librarian reading a book to children. But not just any book because today is March 2 and that is the birthday of Mr. Theodor Seuss Geisel - or as he's better known, Dr. Seuss. I suspect this is a copy of The Lorax but it's hard to tell.
Mr. Geisel was born March 2, 1904, in Springfield Massachusetts to Theodor Robert Geisel and Henrietta Seuss Geisel. He attended Dartmouth College where he was the editor of the Jack-O-Lantern humor magazine. After graduating he moved to England to attend Oxford where he met his future wife, Helen Palmer. They returned to the United States and in 1927 he published his first cartoon in the Saturday Evening Post. By December 21, 1937 "And To Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street" was published by Vanguard Press after over 20 rejections. By 1957 he wrote The Cat in the Hat - one of his most popular works - using only 236 words. Green Eggs and Ham followed using only 50 words.
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