On Dr. Seuss’s birthday, Read Across America suggests we all read Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
It's March 2, wake up and scramble up some green eggs and ham because it's Theodore "Dr. Seuss" Geisel's birthday — his 111th.
Every year, on this big, striped hat of a day, the National Education Association picks a Seuss classic. Then we Read Across America. It's so fantastic.
This year's book: Oh, the Places You'll Go. (The book is celebrating its own birthday: No. 25.)
The President’s gotten into the act. He’s proclaimed it Read Across America Day, in fact.
And every poet who’s of a mind,
and every one who’s not,
ignores better judgement and gives rhyming a shot.
Now I’ll step away from the keyboard.
This is all very new.
But I love to celebrate this author’s birthday… because it’s mine too.
Some trivia in celebration of Oh, the Places You'll Go and its author.
This was the last book Dr. Seuss published before his death. The book debuted in 1990. Seuss died in September 1991.
More copies of this book are sold in the Spring than any other time of the year as it has become a popular graduation gift.
Seuss penned all the book’s illustration. He illustrated 44 of his own books.
If he’d followed in his father’s and grandfather’s footsteps he would’ve gone into the brewing business, not the book business.
