Geisel's birthday, March 2, has been adopted as the annual date for National Read Across America Day, an initiative on reading created by the National Education Association. Geisel won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958 for Horton Hatches the Egg and again in 1961 for And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.

His books have spawned numerous adaptations, including 11 television specials, five feature films, a Broadway musical, and four television series. After the war, Geisel returned to writing children's books, writing classics like If I Ran the Zoo (1950), Horton Hears a Who! (1955), The Cat in the Hat (1957), How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957), Green Eggs and Ham (1960), One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (1960), The Sneetches (1961), The Lorax (1971), The Butter Battle Book (1981), and Oh, the Places You'll Go (1990). During WWII, he illustrated political cartoons, and he worked in the animation and film department of the Army where he wrote, produced or animated many productions including Design for Death, which won the 1947 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. He published his first children's book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street in 1937. He worked as an illustrator for advertising campaigns, most notably for Standard Oil, and as a political cartoonist for the New York newspaper PM. He began his career as an illustrator and cartoonist for Vanity Fair, Life, and other publications.

Seuss' as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College. His work includes many of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages. He is known for writing and illustrating more than 60 books under the pen name Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904 -1991) was an American children's author, cartoonist, illustrator, poet, animator, and filmmaker. The reverse side has darkened in a mottled fashion. The front and back panels are a little darkened, in a mottled fashion, have a little water stain along part of the top and bottom edges, and one 1/4 in. The spine panel and flaps' folds have darkened and are chipped on the ends. The back flap lists ten other titles of Beginner Books, each $1.95. distributed by Random House on the bottom end. DJ: The back panel has three quotes of experts and has Beginner Books, Inc. Eight pages have a stain(s), from one pinpoint size one to a 2 3/4 in. Rubbed spots are on the top and bottom edges of the spine strip and the front board. 63 pages color illustrations, including on the endpapers publisher's B-13 on the bottom end of the spine panel. The cover is glossy yellow with black and red letters and color illustrations.

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