Dr. Seuss' infectious rhymes, his blue-tufted, strong-willed
creatures, and his knack for pithy, roundabout plots have been
entertaining children and adults for decades. And as Donald Pease
shows in this marvelous biography, the seemingly haphazard
trajectory of Theodor Geisel's life bears a close resemblance to
the zigzag plot lines of his children's books. Here is an engaging
look at a man who indeed lived a zigzag life, by turns a
cartoonist, ad agency artist (for Flit bug killer), author,
caricaturist, documentary-film writer and producer, political
cartoonist, and editor. Pease follows Geisel's life from his
childhood in Massachusetts, to his sacking from the editorship of
Dartmouth's humor magazine, to the publication of And to Think That
I Saw It on Mulberry Street-after 17 rejections-which finally
launched him on the career for which he is best known. It was a
career marked by whimsy. Geisel began work on Green Eggs and Ham,
for instance, only after Bennett Cerf, his editor at Random House,
wagered that he could not write a children's book that used no more
than fifty different words. Geisel won, and the result was a series
of works over the next ten years-How the Grinch Stole Christmas!,
Yertle the Turtle, The Sneetches and Other Stories, Hop on Pop-that
changed the way children everywhere learned to read. Given
unprecedented access to Dartmouth's extensive Geisel holdings,
Pease captures this life in full as he offers fresh insights into
the sources of Geisel's creativity, from his surreal images to his
anti-authoritarian stance and slapstick humor. Readers are treated
to many lesser-known illustrations, such as his censored creations
during college, insecticide ads, and wartime political cartoons-all
of which offer a glimpse of his early artistic style and the visual
origins of the more famous creatures that later populated his
children's books.
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