Dr. Seuss Interesting Facts:
- He was a heavy smoker.
- He created the word, "nerd", and it's even in the dictionary!
- His first book was "And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street" was rejected 27 times before it was published.
- There's a cool website with games based on Dr. Seuss's books. You can get to it here.
- Third book was published after World War II and after his sister Margaretha died.
- He met John F. Kennedy's wife Jacqueline Kennedy and told a lie about where he got his book ideas.
- When he spoke in front of people he rhymed.
- "Green Eggs and Ham" only had 50 words and was the 4th best selling children's book.
- Made up that he had his own daughter and named her Chrisanthamum Pearl and included her on Christmas cards and dedicated a book to her and created other fake children like Norval Wikersham and Thnud
- Earned Lifetime of Contribution to Literature Award.
- Started trying to convince people to fight Hitler.
- He didn't write children's books for seven years because of the war.
- "Cat and the Hat" only had 225 words.
- Got his name because he was banned from writing magazines for Dartmouth College and changed his name to trick them using his mother's maiden name, Seuss.
- Seuss is actually pronounced like "soyce" and it rhymes with voice.
- The last words he said to his wife Audrey Diamond were "I've had a wonderful life, i've done what I had to do, I lived were I wish to live, I had love, I had everything." :(