The Tournament of Books has begun.
Please take our Intermediate survey and bring the team from the Super Sixteen to the Elite Eight! Third, Fourth, and Fifth graders vote for the top eight. Please take our Primary survey and bring the teams from the Super Sixteen to the Elite Eight! Kindergarten, First and Second grade vote for the top eight .
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We have been celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday all week, while learning about Biographies. He was born on March 2, 1904 and died in 1991. His name is Theodor Seuss Geisel. Seuss was his mother's maiden name. The very first book that he wrote for children was rejected by 43 publishers. His friend finally published And to Think that I Saw It on Mulberry Street for him in 1937. He and his wife started the Beginner Books division of Random House. John Hersey, the author of Hiroshima, conducted a study on reading and young children. Hersey determined it was because children's books with Dick, Jane, and their dog Spot were so boring. In 1957, Dr. Seuss was challenged to write a book with 250 words that first graders should be able to read He wrote The Cat in the Hat using only used 220 words. Loving a challenge, his publisher bet him $50 that he would not be able to write a book using only 50 words. Green Eggs and Ham is the result of that bet. The book that continued to make him laugh. One book was challenged by a town in California. The townspeople were loggers and they wanted The Lorax banned from their library. Dr. Seuss defended The Lorax as a story about preserving the environment. The Butter Battle was written after seeing the destruction at Hiroshima, to promote peace and ban nuclear arms. He also served in the Army creating documentaries. Bob Keeshan, Captain Kangaroo, remembered him as a man of strong values. |
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