Dr. Seuss, Grinch creator,
dies at 87 in California
LA JOLLA. Calif. (AP)
Thoodor Scuiss Ct'is(>i, the L)r.
Snuss whose rhyming chil
dren’s classics delighted gener
ations of children and parents
— on a train, in the rain, hero
or there or anywhere — hus
died. He was 87.
Geisol, author of The Cel in
the Hut. Croon Lggs end Hum.
Haw the Grinch Stole Christ
ines and dozens of other lx>oks.
died Tuesday night at his home
with his family at his bedside.
He had been ill for several
months.
He wrote 47 books and illus
trated most of them, selling
more than 100 million copies
in 18 languages. He was award
ed u 1084 Pulitzer Prize for his
contribution to children’s liter
ill ure.
Gelsol's works wore Journeys
into nonsense, magical worlds
of truffula trees, ziffs and /.uffs
and nerkles and nerds, whore
top-hatted cats run rampant
through youngsters' homes
while parents are away — de
spite the best efforts ol scolding
fish.
But they often included sub
tle messages on issues impor
tant to him, from international
ism to environmentalism
In his 1984 best seller. The
Butter Buttle Book, he offered a
parable for the atomic ago. It
chronicled the escalating arms
race between the Yooks, who
eat their bread butter side
down, and the Zooks, who do
just the opposite.
it ends with tne two sides at
the Yook-Zook border, each
armed with the ultimate weap
on — a Big-Boy Boomeroo
bomb.
A buy asks his grandpa.
Who's going to drop it Will
you? Will ho?"
"Du patient," grandpa says
"We'll see We will see."
Born March 2, 190-1. In
Springfield, Muss., son of a
brewer who ran a zoo during
Prohibition Geisol graduated in
1925 from Dartmouth, where
he drew cartoons for the humor
magazine, Jack-O-Lantern
It was on a spoof of scientific
developments that he first used
the name that would become
his trademark He added “Dr."
to his middle name to sound
more scientific.
Through the 1950s, Gnisel
wrote a couple of children's
books a year, capped in 1957
by the publication of How iho
Crinch Stole Christmas unci
The Cat it) the Hut.
Crinch, made into a cartoon
with Boris Karloff ruading the
title role, wus a stark critique of
the commercialism that hud be
fallen Christmas, a 20th century
version of Dickens’ A Christ
mas Carol.
The Cat in the Hut
revolutionized children's read
ing habits.
"That is what 1 am proudest
of; that I had something to do
with getting rid of Dick and
Jane,” Ceisol said in 1982.
"His philosophy was to try to
give the kids as many good
laughs to get them over iho
hump to learning to road." Ber
enstain said.
Of all his books, The Lorux
was his favorite. His last book
was Oh, the Places You'll Go,
published in 1990; it hus been
on The New York Times' best
seller list for 78 woeks.
Ceisel Is survived by his
wife, stepdaughters, Lea and
Lark, his niece, Peggy Owens,
and her son Theodore Owens,
of Los Angeles.
When asked two weeks ago
whether ho had any final tries
sage, ('.else! told the San Diego
Tribune ‘'Whenever tilings go
a bit sour in a job I'm doing. 1
always tell myself: 'You can do
better than this ' The host slo
gan I can think of to leave with
the US A. would he: 'We can
do and we've got to do better
than this.' "
Seuss taught kids joy of reading
SAN DliXO (AP) Children's author
Theodor Setiss Ceisul, better known .is Dr
Si’iiss, left behind a legacy of learning coated
in wildly rhyming, candy-colored fun, admir
ers said Wednesday.
"In his own innocuous way. without ever
hitting anybody over the head, he taught chil
dren the joy of rhythm, that words can bring
great joy to your life," said cartoonist Chuck
Jones, Ho directod and produced television
specials based on Geisol's How thr Critu h
Stoic Christmas m>d Horton Hours « Who.
Jones said the mi mu tilling stylo and non
sense words Unit introduced children to poetry
also made it fun for parents to read the books
over and over.
"Ho had a way of treating issues, emotions
and problems that were valid whether you
wore 5 or T>0," said Jell Moss, one of the origi
mil creators of Scsarnn Street "Very few writ
ers could do that."
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