First Edition, First Printing (White dots on the Today is your Birthday page). Describes a birthday celebration in Katroo presided over by the Birthday Bird. Geisel's birthday, March 2, has been adopted as the National Read Across America Day. Collect colorful presents along the way like birthday cake, rockets, flowers. It was not uncommon for him to throw out 95% of his material until he settled on a theme for his book. Wake up to the Birthday Bird and travel with him to the wonderful places of Katroo. During World War II, he worked in an animation department of the United States Army, where he wrote Design for Death, a film that later won the 1947 Academy Award for Documentary Feature.

Geisel also worked as an illustrator for advertising campaigns, most notably for Flit and Standard Oil, and as a political cartoonist for PM, a New York City newspaper.

He won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958 for Horton Hatches the Egg and again in 1961 for And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. His works have spawned numerous adaptations, including 11 television specials, four feature films, a Broadway musical and four television series. His most-celebrated books include Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, The Lorax, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, Fox in Socks, The King's Stilts, Horton Hatches the Egg, Horton Hears a Who!, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. Geisel published 44 children's books, often characterized by imaginative characters, rhyme, and frequent use of anapestic meter. Theophrastus Seuss in college and later used Theo LeSieg and Rosetta Stone. He was most widely known for his children's books written and illustrated as Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991) was an American writer, poet, and cartoonist.

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