Category: word usage

Theodor Geisel, better know as Dr. Seuss, wrote his first children’s book in 1937. It was And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street.  It would be 23 years before he would write Green Eggs and Ham, and it probably would never have happened without “the bet.” Long before the publication of Green Eggs and Ham, Geisel had achieved the essence of his style in children’s books. He perfected the use of silly stories, unusual visuals, rhyming verses, and, most of all, limited vocabulary. Before 1960, his most popular book was The Cat in the Hat. It included only 236 words […]