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. 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