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2 March 201: Dr Seuss Day - to honour his birthday



March 2 is Dr. Seuss Day to honour the birthday of the author of many children’s book, such as Cat in the Hat and Fox in Sox.

Theodor Seuss Geisel, generally known as Dr. Seuss, was born on March 2 in 1904 and died in 1991 at his home in La Jolla, California. He was an author, poet and cartoonist. He was also an illustrator to promote campaigns and a political cartoonist throughout World War II.

He was most famous for his comical children’s books with crazy characters. His last book, Oh The Places You’ll Go, was published in 1990, a year before his death.

Dr. Seuss wrote 48 children’s books. Here they are:

And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
Bartholomew & the Oobleck
The Butter Battle Book
The Cat in the Hat
Cat in the Hat Comes Back
Cat in the Hat Songbook
The Cat's Quizzer
Daisy-Head Mayzie
Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?
Dr. Seuss's ABC
Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book
The Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
Foot Book
Fox in Socks
Great Day for Up!
Green Eggs and Ham
Happy Birthday to You
Hop on Pop
Horton Hatches the Egg
Horton Hears a Who
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Hunches in Bunches
I Am Not Going to Get up Today!
I Can Draw It Myself: By Me, Myself with a Little Help from My Friend Dr. Seuss
I Can Lick Thirty Tigers Today & Other Stories
I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew
If I Ran the Circus
If I Ran the Zoo
King's Stilts
Lorax
McElligot's Pool
Marvin K. Mooney, Will You Please Go Now
Mister Brown Can Moo, Can You.
My Book About Me
Oh, Say Can You Say?
Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Oh! The Thinks You Can Think!
On Beyond Zebra
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
Scrambled Eggs Super!
The Seven Lady Godivas
Shape fo Me & Other Stuff
Sneetches & Other Stories
There's a Wocket in My Pocket!
Thidwick, the Big-Hearted Moose
Yertle the Turtle & Other Stories
You're Only Old Once!







MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the author of:- The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).
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