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Showing posts with label Dr. Seuss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dr. Seuss. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

It's a Dr. Seuss Giveaway!!!

One lucky winner will receive a Can You? Combo of Dr. Seuss books sure to please any little tot.

 Horton Hears a Who! Can You? comes with a plush hand puppet.

This Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? is the board book version for little hands.

All you have to do to win this set of Can You? books for your tot is leave a comment sharing something you love about Dr. Seuss, or what your favorite Dr. Seuss book was as a kid, or even your child's favorite Dr. Seuss story.

You can earn an extra entry by sharing this giveaway on your blog, facebook, or twitter. If you blog it, please leave a link in your comment, so we can browse your blog.

Giveaway closes Monday, March 7th.

(For a little history about the man behind the name, take a look at this short read. Or print this Green Eggs on a Plate game and have some fun with the kidlets.)

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Trivia question of the day!

Who is this? And what is he doing on my blog?

Hints:

You probably know his characters more than him.

He is a household name.

Even very young children quickly recognize his name and his work.

Your parents loved him. You loved him. Your children love him.

They call him Dr., but was he really a Dr.?

If it weren't for this man, Cindy-Lou would not dear our hearts at Christmas.

Figured it out yet? That's right! It's Dr. Seuss.

This one man has been entertaining children since 1937, when he first published And to Think I Saw It On Mulberry Street. (Did you know this manuscript was rejected 29 times before he found a publisher?) He wrote some 40-50 books. His last being Oh, The Places You'll Go! published in 1990.

Dr. Seuss' real name is actually Theodor Seuss Geisel. He was born in 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts. To attempt to fulfill his father's wishes, he traveled to England to attend Oxford University, but soon tired of studying and took to touring Europe. Upon returning to the States, he began to his career as a cartoonist. During World War II, he joined the U.S. Army, serving in Frank Capra's Signal Corp, making training movies.

His interest in children's literature started when he was asked to illustrate a collection of children's sayings, Boners. After getting great reviews for his illustrative work, he began work on his first book, And to think I saw it Mulberry Street. And the rest is history.

If Ted Geisel were still alive today, he would be 107 years old.

In honor of this great man and his impact on childhoods everywhere, feel free to download the Green Eggs on a Plate Game, and party with the kidlets!

{While you're there, you might want to check out some of the other printables I put up over the weekend.} --Yes, that was a shameless plug. ha ha ha.