Dr Seuss has been a huge influence on children’s reading with classics like And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, Green Eggs And Ham, The Cat And The Hat and other classics that have sold hundreds of millions of copies over the years. Now in a new biography, Donald Pease, professor of English at Dartmouth, explores the connection between Dr Seuss’s life and his work. Here, in an interview with DNA, Pease talks about his book Theodor SEUSS Geisel and why children today need writers like Dr Seuss more than ever, in order to develop their imagination. Excerpts from the interview:
Why did you want to write on Dr Seuss?
Strangely, no one has ever written on Dr Seuss, connecting him with his works. There is an important relation between the experiences Theodor Geisel went through and the works he created. For instance, his troublesome past found a way into his books. Growing up as the son of German immigrants in Springfield, Massachusetts during World War 1, he was subject to much humiliation and fear. Children would yell on seeing him, “Let’s kill that Kaiser’s son. Let’s kill that Hun’s son”. His first book And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street relates to that experience.
Full interview here DNA
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