It's hard to imagine what growing up would be like without Dr. Seuss' works. He really did do more to encourage reading in children than anyone else. What a guy.
he cheated on his wife with cancer who then killed herself, then he married his mistress. also most of his writings were those of his late wife to which he never gave credit.
The Cat in the Hat was my first book. I read it at 8 after years of struggling. I was gifted at math and art. But my reading ability struggled to develop. In adulthood I learned that it was Autism. But I struggled for years, often crying because I couldn't read. The Cat in the Hat changed that. I'm now a large advocate for the Dr. Seuss books having bought a lot of used ones up to donate to libraries wherever I live.
I remember reading the Dr Suess books, and enjoying them immensely! Now I understand the author behind these books! Well done indeed again Simon and your team!
This is probably one of the most important and interesting historical stories you have told... Funny how a man who wanted to touch young hearts so much and did. But everyone else wanted him to focus on education where he wanted his stories to just be enjoyed ended up being instrumental in being a huge contributor to the literacy in our world. Thankyou I will remember this one fondly.
My uncle was the first officer on the scene to discover this wonderful writer dead in his home, in his bedroom beside his snoring pug dog. I learned that recently, though that is a severely summarized version. This is one of my favorite authors but it's always interesting to learn how everything is connected together in one way or another.
As an adult, I actually read a lot, between 10-15 novels a year. My mom read while we ate lunch when I was preschool age. I would get one of my Dr. Suess books and pretend to read too. I was probably only about 4 or 5 at the time. I still remember that. Great memory of time with my mom. This would have been early 70's. In my 20's I could read a Dr. Seuss book to my kids and not even actually read. I had read them so much I had them memorized. I would use different voices for each character. Makes me feel small to know that I will never affect that many people and thankful for the types of people. Thank you, Dr Seuss for this gift and I so enjoyed the fantasy. I was that kid whose mind wandered.
And to think it happened on mulberry st was my favourite childhood book. It's soo light hearted an imaginative. Amazing biographic episode as usual. Keep up the excellent work.
Great video there Simon and team. The last bit about how he never wanted his books into movies or stuffed animals. It reminds me of how Bill Watterson forbid or hated the idea of his Calvin and Hobbes comics printed as car stickers, t-shirts and stuffed animals.
What a shame. He cost himself and his publisher a hundred million dollars and lost a great portion of what could have been the Calvin and Hobbs legacy. And why? Seriously, why? Peripherals are just a normal part of business.
@@bretthess6376 It seems it wasn't about business for him, though. He just wanted to tell jokes and was an artist. I can definitely understand not wanting that simple goal to be milked to death to where the thing you created is now a bastardized version it once was. Yes, a living needs to be made, but he wasn't going for excess.
"One of Geisel's friends..." That friend was Bennett Cerf, founder of Random House. The bet was for 50 bucks and Cerf often talked about how that was the best $50 bet he ever lost. Cerf was a hell of a raconteur and a painfully unfunny teller of funny jokes. Now there's a great person for you to do a bio on. A relatively self-made man who gambled his entire fortune on buying up a random library of 100 titles and founding what became the largest book publisher in America, second only to Sears and Roebuck during his lifetime.
This is a wonderful channel!!! Would love to see about classical composers perhaps Shostakovich or Prokofiev. So many these guys have such interesting lives especially during the Cold war. Keep up the excellent work love the channel.
Jose one of the first ever uses of the word "nerd" was in that book so it could be possible that Dr. Seuss made that word since his background of making up random words.
0:40 - Chapter 1 - School days 4:35 - Chapter 2 - American propaganda & taking on hollywood 7:25 - Chapter 3 - A new purpose 9:35 - Chapter 4 - Personal life 15:15 - Chapter 5 - Legacy
I enjoyed this documentary very much!! It was very concise and informative, without “fluff”. The narrator did a wonderful job! You were easy to understand, spoke eloquently, yet simply! Very nice work! I will look forward to more from this channel! 👍😊
His first wife, Helen Palmer wrote most of the stories and he took all the credit. He even abused her and cheated on her while she was battling cancer.
Thanks for this story about Dr. Seuss. My kids had all the books when they were small. They loved them and I had to read them over and over again. The rhymes really made it fun. I never knew anything about his life, though, so I'm glad to have seen this video.
The more that you read, the more things you will know, The more that you learn , The more you places you’ll go. My mom used to say this to me every time I’d have a hard time with school. I still never really achieved much in school but boy did I read. Thanks mom ❤️
One of the things in life that gives me the most joy is being a kids Entertainer at Renaissance Faires. When you were talking about him feeling uncomfortable being around people the very first thing I thought was that's how I feel. Yet I'm a relatively popular figure at my local Ren Faire. If I can put on the character, kind of like an outfit, I have no problem being the center attention of a large crowd. But me... Laurie, I'm actually shy. Thank you for doing this one. His were the first books I remember reading alone and the first books I read to my daughter.
I always enjoy your videos not just because it's educational but I do believe you always try and give and unbiased view of things. I really appreciate how u handled the part about the death of his first wife keep up the great work and thank you so much
I still remember being in kindergarten when he died. We all gathered together in the library and they made us green eggs and ham (we got to add the dye to the eggs) and they read us our favorite Dr. Seuss books. In retrospect the teachers seemed more torn up than any of us kids. A rare moment of simple bliss in my early childhood, one indulged in without really understanding how it was the tragedy of losing a national hero and icon that beget it.
When he passed away I was shocked to learn that he had still been alive. I had assumed he was around forever but then when you find childrens books from the 50's you can see how he changed everything.
I really enjoyed this video all the way from the rhyme at the start to the end where Ted’s talent and money are still helping others. Thank you to everyone involved in this video.
thanks for this, I have always loved his books, and raised my kids on them, my son, in particular loved the cat in the hat and we read it so often, he knew it by heart by 4 and it could sight read it by 5 when his little sister came along he was 6, he promptly declared her "his" baby, except, of course at diaper change time, then it was an indignant "your baby stinks!" once she was 2 he would read it to her, sitting her on his lap just as he had sat on mine, it was the cutest thing ever
Wow. Great video sir. My kids are older now and one of my greatest memories is reading Fox in Sox to them. Dr Seuss has never and will never lose it's magic.
Best intro EVER!!!! I wish everyone could be as whimsical and free-spirited as Dr. Seuss. Who cares if it's pronounced wrong? If it rhymes with something cool, he'd be the first to let you say it however you'd want. He actually changed the shape of kid lit forever. Thank goodness!!! I still have the "ABC" book memorized because my son wanted it every night. He's 30.
@@Polo1683Official I'm trying to figure out your point. Because if you missed mine, it was the fact that not ALL of his books are no longer going to be printed. Only 6. People need to stop overreacting to accountability and calling it "cancel culture."
@@SaltySweetMerm Read "Oh the places you'll go" They can't ban Mein Kampf. It's OK for Farrakhan to rip Jews and compare them to animals, and his book not be banned? But they can ban Dr Seuss? READ THE DAMN BOOK AND FIND OUT WHATS BANNED! Pay attention YOU think Dr. Suess is worse than literally Hitler?! . You have No clue of the wickedness walking this way! Coming for YOU.
Thank you for doing an episode of Dr. Seuss. I was born in the San Diego area (I still live there) and Ted Geisel is considered a celebrity here, especially in La Jolla. The library at University of California at San Diego is called the Geisel Library in honor of him and Audrey Geisel.
Excellent story, I loved the Dr. Suess books as a school kid and still do today! The guy was a genius for having the gift of making learning words an easy and fun activity for kids having difficulty with literacy. Thank you, Simon.
Brilliant and informative video as usual Simon, well done! The only thing you could have added was that Audrey Geisel died just over a month ago, aged 97 I think.
They did a public memorial for him in San Diego when I was a kid. I read a letter from Barbara Bush, San Diego was extremely proud to have someone like Mr. Geisel as a resident.
Love the Seuss-esque graphics you used. On the campus of the University of California San Diego, there is a library named after Mr. Geisel. My very first library book was "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish." I consider Dr. Seuss a true master of rhyme.
The elementary school that I went to held and still holds an annual parade celebrating Dr. Seuss' legacy. All classes choose a book that they read together as a class to create a float and sign for. Then, after the floats and signs are finished, the band starts the music and a select group of students pull the float, hold the signs, and play the rolls of the main characters in the books. The event is called the "I love a book" parade. The year Dr. Seuss would have turned 100, the parade lasted a lot longer than normal.
I grew up reading Dr. Seuss books as did my kids & now my grandkids. My oldest daughter loved the ABC book so much that I have the meaning to each letter still memorized. She's 40 now 😁🤣
“The Cat in the Hat” was the first “real book” that I read by myself. (The boring Dick, Jane and Sally books we were forced to read at school don’t count.) Yertle the Turtle, the Sneetches, the Hinkle Horn Honking Club (from the Sleep Book), Thidwick the big hearted moose and Horton the Elephant were and continue to be some of my best friends in literature. My favorite word of all of the good doctor’s creations still is floobooberbabbuberbub from “On Beyond Zebra”. I fell in love with “The 500 Fingers of Dr. T” after seeing it at a kiddie matinee when I was 10. When I was pregnant with my son I read Dr. Seuss to him in utero and continued to do so for many years. I now give Dr. Seuss books as baby and birthday gifts (for young and older folks alike). Life without the the doctor’s books would not be worth living in my opinion. He still encourages me to be silly and creative regardless of my age. What a fantastic legacy he left us!
I wrote a biography on him. here it is so far: Theodore Seuss Geisel was born in 1904 to German immigrants. As a child, his favorite pastime was to go to the zoo with his family every Sunday. He was so good at drawing animals that his father bought him a sketchbook that added to every weekend, and his mom allowed him to paint on his bedroom walls. His animals always looked like characters and from a young age, they could tell that he had a whimsical imagination. After prohibition in the 1920's, his father could no longer run the brewery and actually chose to become the head of the zoo instead. Ted Geisel could now go to the zoo and sketch the animals as often as he wanted, and he continued to do this for the rest of his life. He was accepted to Dartmouth College, and he started drawing short comics for their humor magazine. In his senior year, Geisel became the editor, and this was the beginning of a lifelong literally career. Since he was removed from position as editor he decided to secretly continue contributing to the magazine, but went by the pen name "Dr. Seuss”
Your camera quality is freaking fantastic! I mean, everything else is great too. I'm painfully jealous because yours is essentially my dream job. But seriously, that camera quality tho!
I've been in his house in LA and the now owners have kept it original. All the ceilings and walls are painted with clouds and other animations. Cool house. I took photos when I was in there.
“I said it was silly to bury himself under Shakespeare’s semicolons” Helen Palmer to Seuss in a literary class on King Lear at Oxford. He was doodling rabbits & cows instead as he wasn’t as interested in dissecting & writing literature like that.
2MINUTES I didn’t say he DESERVED a good life, I just suggested that his life may not be particularly more “tragic” than most. Ask anybody over 70; they’ve all lost dear family members, struggled through depression, disease, rejection. Life is just hard, no matter what we “deserve”.
I'm betting a lot of us here learned to read and to love reading because of Dr. Seuss. I'm also betting that those of us old enough to have children, used Dr Seuss books to help teach our own kids how to read. Now I teach English in China and do you know what I use to help me get my students interested in reading English and understanding phonics? Yup. Dr. Seuss. The stories are universal, simple, and fun.
Good morning Simon! How's it going? I love this biography! I grew up reading Dr.Seuss books as a child.! Oaks of glue at in Hanover New Hampshire while my mother was preparing to graduate from Dartmouth with a master's degree in Liberal Arts. So I hung out around Hanover New Hampshire as I was growing up in Vermont. Even though I clean floors and bathrooms for a living, I consider myself an unpublished writer.
Ok sir i do believe i have to stop watching ur more heart warming bios in the morning i think im alittle to sensitive after waking up or alittle to honest with myself my kids are wondering why daddy has tears in his eyes watching his phone.
I had all the Dr.Seuss books since 6 years old, and we were all allowed to read and eat at the table. It definitely contributed to my love of reading. I graduated to Stephen King when I was thirteen. That's also when I learned the value of a dictionary.
It's hard to imagine what growing up would be like without Dr. Seuss' works. He really did do more to encourage reading in children than anyone else. What a guy.
He also cheated on his wife while she was battling cancer.
@@UltimateCowBoyCat and stole most of her stories🗿
@@thecolester and gave her no credit
2MINUTES even at 19 years old I can’t help but feel betrayed after all the lessons he put in his books
he cheated on his wife with cancer who then killed herself, then he married his mistress. also most of his writings were those of his late wife to which he never gave credit.
Simons speaking Suess is all I needed this Monday.
He's oddly sexy
It’s literally the boost you need for a Monday morning.
@@MarielaQue Simon or Dr. Seuss? 😅
I would want him to read ALL the suess books.
The Cat in the Hat was my first book. I read it at 8 after years of struggling. I was gifted at math and art. But my reading ability struggled to develop. In adulthood I learned that it was Autism. But I struggled for years, often crying because I couldn't read. The Cat in the Hat changed that. I'm now a large advocate for the Dr. Seuss books having bought a lot of used ones up to donate to libraries wherever I live.
great for you! hope you are doing well
God bless you
It's amazing; just how easily people will judge the inner complexities of other's relationships. I am glad he found some happiness.
SO thankful she decided to allow licensing and keep his legacy alive
I remember reading the Dr Suess books, and enjoying them immensely! Now I understand the author behind these books! Well done indeed again Simon and your team!
This is probably one of the most important and interesting historical stories you have told... Funny how a man who wanted to touch young hearts so much and did. But everyone else wanted him to focus on education where he wanted his stories to just be enjoyed ended up being instrumental in being a huge contributor to the literacy in our world.
Thankyou I will remember this one fondly.
My uncle was the first officer on the scene to discover this wonderful writer dead in his home, in his bedroom beside his snoring pug dog. I learned that recently, though that is a severely summarized version.
This is one of my favorite authors but it's always interesting to learn how everything is connected together in one way or another.
That's not a bad way to go honestly.
Honestly, I'm more impressed at someone who can write a classic in a few hundred words than several thousand. That takes MUCH more talent.
That "What!?" was perfectly unexpected and comical for this channel, but now I have to clean the soda off my screen.
I'm still chuckling about it hours later!
Damn near spit my coffee all over my phone. 😂😂😂
Spit take warning!
Aha! I saw your comment before I got to that bit, so I put my soda down first - thanks for the head's up!
I’m still trying to find that part lol :(
As an adult, I actually read a lot, between 10-15 novels a year. My mom read while we ate lunch when I was preschool age. I would get one of my Dr. Suess books and pretend to read too. I was probably only about 4 or 5 at the time. I still remember that. Great memory of time with my mom. This would have been early 70's. In my 20's I could read a Dr. Seuss book to my kids and not even actually read. I had read them so much I had them memorized. I would use different voices for each character. Makes me feel small to know that I will never affect that many people and thankful for the types of people. Thank you, Dr Seuss for this gift and I so enjoyed the fantasy. I was that kid whose mind wandered.
I actually loved that you used COMIC GOTHIC GEISEL SANS as the font throughout! I love this channel!
"You, crook, you. I bet you wrote the Twilight books, too"
(Dr. Seuss stares aggressively)
ERB!
iiiiiiiiiIIIIII WOULD NOT COULD NOT ON A BOAT READ ANY OF THE BORING ASS PLAYS YOU WROTE
@@bariatrlcs Even Horton doesn't wanna hear you, and cindy lulu is afraid to go near you!
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So good! I’d love to see a Shel Silverstein bio!!
That would be great!
I was thinking the exact same thing as I was watching this man
AMEN to this.
Good call
I would too
that poetic intro though...
**slow clap**
**slow clap**
**slow clap**
And to think it happened on mulberry st was my favourite childhood book. It's soo light hearted an imaginative. Amazing biographic episode as usual. Keep up the excellent work.
I know where that street is, I lived in Springfield
Sadly Audrey passed away in December - her great generosity leaving a huge impact on the San Diego community, and beyond.
Rest In Peace Audrey
Currently I'm snowed in, glad to see new biographics. Thanks Simon.
You in t dot?
Wish I were snowed in, I really don't want to go to work today!
@@MizBryteEyez how's coronavirus
I love that you use the Dr. Seuss script on each introduction page.
Great video there Simon and team. The last bit about how he never wanted his books into movies or stuffed animals.
It reminds me of how Bill Watterson forbid or hated the idea of his Calvin and Hobbes comics printed as car stickers, t-shirts and stuffed animals.
What a shame. He cost himself and his publisher a hundred million dollars and lost a great portion of what could have been the Calvin and Hobbs legacy. And why? Seriously, why? Peripherals are just a normal part of business.
@@bretthess6376 It seems it wasn't about business for him, though. He just wanted to tell jokes and was an artist. I can definitely understand not wanting that simple goal to be milked to death to where the thing you created is now a bastardized version it once was. Yes, a living needs to be made, but he wasn't going for excess.
"One of Geisel's friends..."
That friend was Bennett Cerf, founder of Random House. The bet was for 50 bucks and Cerf
often talked about how that was the best $50 bet he ever lost.
Cerf was a hell of a raconteur and a painfully unfunny teller of funny jokes.
Now there's a great person for you to do a bio on. A relatively self-made man who gambled his
entire fortune on buying up a random library of 100 titles and founding what became the largest
book publisher in America, second only to Sears and Roebuck during his lifetime.
The man was a genius with words. I enjoyed reading his books as a kid and the movies or shows as well.
This is a wonderful channel!!! Would love to see about classical composers perhaps Shostakovich or Prokofiev. So many these guys have such interesting lives especially during the Cold war. Keep up the excellent work love the channel.
Fun fact
He might have invented the word "nerd," which appears in his 1950 book "If I Ran the Zoo" - though the derivation is disputed
Explanation?
And the "eu" in Seuss isn't EXACTLY like the "oy" in royal; rather, it is a completely rounded diphthong.
Jose one of the first ever uses of the word "nerd" was in that book so it could be possible that Dr. Seuss made that word since his background of making up random words.
0:40 - Chapter 1 - School days
4:35 - Chapter 2 - American propaganda & taking on hollywood
7:25 - Chapter 3 - A new purpose
9:35 - Chapter 4 - Personal life
15:15 - Chapter 5 - Legacy
I enjoyed this documentary very much!! It was very concise and informative, without “fluff”. The narrator did a wonderful job! You were easy to understand, spoke eloquently, yet simply! Very nice work! I will look forward to more from this channel! 👍😊
I love Seuss's work the more I grow older
You and me both, mate.
Both of you need to grow the hell up
He abused his wife to death
His first wife, Helen Palmer wrote most of the stories and he took all the credit. He even abused her and cheated on her while she was battling cancer.
@@lav3nder.bxrbiee334 Wow.
Thanks for this story about Dr. Seuss. My kids had all the books when they were small. They loved them and I had to read them over and over again. The rhymes really made it fun. I never knew anything about his life, though, so I'm glad to have seen this video.
Love the sporadic Seuss-like rhymings in the script. The interjection at 4:42 is priceless! I laughed my buns off.
It's so nice on how u used the font to show a bit of relation to the person
Dr. Seuss was actually a member of my fraternity at Dartmouth, and our library at UC San Diego is called "Geisel Library"
Luke Mitchell VDBL, he was drinking with SigEps when he got caught with that Gin
The more that you read, the more things you will know,
The more that you learn ,
The more you places you’ll go.
My mom used to say this to me every time I’d have a hard time with school. I still never really achieved much in school but boy did I read.
Thanks mom ❤️
One of the things in life that gives me the most joy is being a kids Entertainer at Renaissance Faires. When you were talking about him feeling uncomfortable being around people the very first thing I thought was that's how I feel. Yet I'm a relatively popular figure at my local Ren Faire. If I can put on the character, kind of like an outfit, I have no problem being the center attention of a large crowd. But me... Laurie, I'm actually shy. Thank you for doing this one. His were the first books I remember reading alone and the first books I read to my daughter.
He is a legend and as I watched my young nieces learn to read and find joy in reading his simple stories I know his mission in life was a success.
No other author had more of an impact on my linguistic skills as Dr. Seuss. I'm pleased his legacy continues.
I can officially say that this man changed my perspective of books.
I always enjoy your videos not just because it's educational but I do believe you always try and give and unbiased view of things. I really appreciate how u handled the part about the death of his first wife keep up the great work and thank you so much
Simon the rhyme was Amazing!!! I love your details of even the font was perfect!! Wonderful video too. 😁
I still remember being in kindergarten when he died. We all gathered together in the library and they made us green eggs and ham (we got to add the dye to the eggs) and they read us our favorite Dr. Seuss books. In retrospect the teachers seemed more torn up than any of us kids. A rare moment of simple bliss in my early childhood, one indulged in without really understanding how it was the tragedy of losing a national hero and icon that beget it.
Now we do that tradition in my daycare center every march. His legacy does live on.
When he passed away I was shocked to learn that he had still been alive. I had assumed he was around forever but then when you find childrens books from the 50's you can see how he changed everything.
Everything i need to know about the world, I can learn from Shell and Simon. Another good one lads. Cheers!
Growing up, my mom read Dr Suess to me. I read them to my kids, and my kids to their kids. And now the great-grandkids are hearing him, too.
I really enjoyed this video all the way from the rhyme at the start to the end where Ted’s talent and money are still helping others. Thank you to everyone involved in this video.
What a lovely bio and tribute. Thank you for this video!
I appreciate very much the lack of bias in this documentary. Very well 👍
This was really interesting, probably one of my favorite Biographics so far. Good job guys!
thanks for this, I have always loved his books, and raised my kids on them, my son, in particular loved the cat in the hat and we read it so often, he knew it by heart by 4 and it could sight read it by 5 when his little sister came along he was 6, he promptly declared her "his" baby, except, of course at diaper change time, then it was an indignant "your baby stinks!" once she was 2 he would read it to her, sitting her on his lap just as he had sat on mine, it was the cutest thing ever
You earned your thumbs up within 25 seconds. Bravo, hoss. Keep up the good work.
I like that you kept rhyming sporadically through-out the entire Biographic. I see what you did there, no use denying it.
The quick funny cut scenes during the story telling were truly fantastic
One of my lifelong heroes. ❤ Such an amazing, wonderful person.
Wow. Great video sir. My kids are older now and one of my greatest memories is reading Fox in Sox to them. Dr Seuss has never and will never lose it's magic.
Best intro EVER!!!! I wish everyone could be as whimsical and free-spirited as Dr. Seuss. Who cares if it's pronounced wrong? If it rhymes with something cool, he'd be the first to let you say it however you'd want.
He actually changed the shape of kid lit forever. Thank goodness!!! I still have the "ABC" book memorized because my son wanted it every night. He's 30.
Great video. I have always loved Dr. Seuss & your bio did him justice.
Today, Dr Seuss got cancelled and his books electronically burned. 3/3/2021
Only 6.... 6 of his 66 books.... chill....
@@SaltySweetMermyeah just 11% of everything a man published. Open your eyes. People dont get paranoid for no reason
@@Polo1683Official I'm trying to figure out your point. Because if you missed mine, it was the fact that not ALL of his books are no longer going to be printed. Only 6. People need to stop overreacting to accountability and calling it "cancel culture."
@@SaltySweetMerm Read "Oh the places you'll go" They can't ban Mein Kampf. It's OK for Farrakhan to rip Jews and compare them to animals, and his book not be banned? But they can ban Dr Seuss? READ THE DAMN BOOK AND FIND OUT WHATS BANNED! Pay attention YOU think Dr. Suess is worse than literally Hitler?! . You have No clue of the wickedness walking this way! Coming for YOU.
@@SaltySweetMermburning any books is reason for alarm. What do you not want us to see, Nazi?
Thank you for doing an episode of Dr. Seuss. I was born in the San Diego area (I still live there) and Ted Geisel is considered a celebrity here, especially in La Jolla. The library at University of California at San Diego is called the Geisel Library in honor of him and Audrey Geisel.
My son's and I are obsessed with your channel we love learning the history of some many people so thank you so much for making learning fun
Excellent story, I loved the Dr. Suess books as a school kid and still do today! The guy was a genius for having the gift of making learning words an easy and fun activity for kids having difficulty with literacy. Thank you, Simon.
Yours is one of my favorite channels on You Tube! Thank You!
Thanks for saying so :)
Don’t be sad that it’s over, be glad you did it in the first place
Brilliant and informative video as usual Simon, well done! The only thing you could have added was that Audrey Geisel died just over a month ago, aged 97 I think.
A most excellent tale on one of my favorite authors who never listened to the critics. Well done good Doctor.
They did a public memorial for him in San Diego when I was a kid. I read a letter from Barbara Bush, San Diego was extremely proud to have someone like Mr. Geisel as a resident.
Rest in peace 🙏
Theodor Seuss Geisel
2 March 1904 ~
24 September 1991⚘
❤ My 1st books in life by Dr. Seuss ❤
For some reason, every time I encounter anything related to Dr. Seuss, I always get a bit teary-eyed
Shout out to the man that made my childhood Mr.Geisel
Love the Seuss-esque graphics you used. On the campus of the University of California San Diego, there is a library named after Mr. Geisel. My very first library book was "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish." I consider Dr. Seuss a true master of rhyme.
The Cat In The Hat was my first book and the first book I learned to read. Audrey Geisel died in December of 2018.
Woah really?
4:42 😂😂😂😂 WHAAAAAAT 😂😂😂😂
Dude that got me so bad i had to rewind
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
That was funny.
Look out! I saw a Hitler!
That made me crack up so much!
Amazing story, thanks so much for sharing.
Good show. What an introduction! Loved it. Your channels are the best information channels that I have seen on RUclips.
This is my favorite so far. Good job guys
These are just getting better and better! I enjoy your content so very much. Thank you.
The elementary school that I went to held and still holds an annual parade celebrating Dr. Seuss' legacy. All classes choose a book that they read together as a class to create a float and sign for. Then, after the floats and signs are finished, the band starts the music and a select group of students pull the float, hold the signs, and play the rolls of the main characters in the books. The event is called the "I love a book" parade. The year Dr. Seuss would have turned 100, the parade lasted a lot longer than normal.
I grew up reading Dr. Seuss books as did my kids & now my grandkids. My oldest daughter loved the ABC book so much that I have the meaning to each letter still memorized. She's 40 now 😁🤣
“The Cat in the Hat” was the first “real book” that I read by myself. (The boring Dick, Jane and Sally books we were forced to read at school don’t count.) Yertle the Turtle, the Sneetches, the Hinkle Horn Honking Club (from the Sleep Book), Thidwick the big hearted moose and Horton the Elephant were and continue to be some of my best friends in literature. My favorite word of all of the good doctor’s creations still is floobooberbabbuberbub from “On Beyond Zebra”. I fell in love with “The 500 Fingers of Dr. T” after seeing it at a kiddie matinee when I was 10. When I was pregnant with my son I read Dr. Seuss to him in utero and continued to do so for many years. I now give Dr. Seuss books as baby and birthday gifts (for young and older folks alike). Life without the the doctor’s books would not be worth living in my opinion. He still encourages me to be silly and creative regardless of my age. What a fantastic legacy he left us!
Thank you for this video! Simon Whistler is brilliant!
I wrote a biography on him. here it is so far: Theodore Seuss Geisel was born in 1904 to German immigrants. As a child, his favorite pastime was to go to the zoo with his family every Sunday. He was so good at drawing animals that his father bought him a sketchbook that added to every weekend, and his mom allowed him to paint on his bedroom walls. His animals always looked like characters and from a young age, they could tell that he had a whimsical imagination. After prohibition in the 1920's, his father could no longer run the brewery and actually chose to become the head of the zoo instead. Ted Geisel could now go to the zoo and sketch the animals as often as he wanted, and he continued to do this for the rest of his life. He was accepted to Dartmouth College, and he started drawing short comics for their humor magazine. In his senior year, Geisel became the editor, and this was the beginning of a lifelong literally career. Since he was removed from position as editor he decided to secretly continue contributing to the magazine, but went by the pen name "Dr. Seuss”
You're a great storyteller. I could listen to you all day.
That intro tho!!!! Dayyyyym.
OMG....I cracked up at the "WHAT" part about Hitler...🤣🤣
Green Eggs and Ham teaches you an important life lesson: if to harass someone long enough, they'll eventually give into your demands.
The lil John “what” at 4:42 made me laugh. That was great
Great to hear about Dr Seuss, and your intro rhyme was perfect. Thanks--
Your camera quality is freaking fantastic!
I mean, everything else is great too. I'm painfully jealous because yours is essentially my dream job. But seriously, that camera quality tho!
As a person who grew up on doctor Seuss, it broke my heart to learn about some of the rumors entailing him floating about.
I've been in his house in LA and the now owners have kept it original. All the ceilings and walls are painted with clouds and other animations. Cool house. I took photos when I was in there.
I'm a huge fan of this series and the movie. I never knew they made these. Thanks for uploading this video.
I got goosebumps at the end. Thank you for the great video
Wow.... his personal life was like a shakesperian tragedy...so perfectly sad, it's hard to believe
“I said it was silly to bury himself under Shakespeare’s semicolons” Helen Palmer to Seuss in a literary class on King Lear at Oxford. He was doodling rabbits & cows instead as he wasn’t as interested in dissecting & writing literature like that.
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Not more tragic than most lives I don’t think. Life is hard. But it’s an adventure.
@@maggiebastolla5430 Yea because cheating on a dying wife is perfectly fine
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I didn’t say he DESERVED a good life, I just suggested that his life may not be particularly more “tragic” than most. Ask anybody over 70; they’ve all lost dear family members, struggled through depression, disease, rejection. Life is just hard, no matter what we “deserve”.
I'm betting a lot of us here learned to read and to love reading because of Dr. Seuss. I'm also betting that those of us old enough to have children, used Dr Seuss books to help teach our own kids how to read.
Now I teach English in China and do you know what I use to help me get my students interested in reading English and understanding phonics? Yup. Dr. Seuss. The stories are universal, simple, and fun.
Good morning Simon! How's it going? I love this biography! I grew up reading Dr.Seuss books as a child.! Oaks of glue at in Hanover New Hampshire while my mother was preparing to graduate from Dartmouth with a master's degree in Liberal Arts. So I hung out around Hanover New Hampshire as I was growing up in Vermont. Even though I clean floors and bathrooms for a living, I consider myself an unpublished writer.
A voice chatted this comment. When I read it I realized I made some errors
How is the viewership so low on this video? He is a huge part of all our childhoods.
Ok sir i do believe i have to stop watching ur more heart warming bios in the morning i think im alittle to sensitive after waking up or alittle to honest with myself my kids are wondering why daddy has tears in his eyes watching his phone.
Nice back round and lightning, very chilled!
I had all the Dr.Seuss books since 6 years old, and we were all allowed to read and eat at the table. It definitely contributed to my love of reading. I graduated to Stephen King when I was thirteen. That's also when I learned the value of a dictionary.
Thank you sir, I have a project due tomorrow and this was very helpful
Dr. Seuss definitely had bars for days
Great job. Excellent as always. Recommend another Doctor - Red Duke. Another great story.
"...began drawing Hitler instead. WHAT!?!"😳 You made me spill my fucking BEER with that one!🍺😂