Dr Seuss and The Cat in the Hat Story
Born Theodor Seuss Geisel in March 1904 in Massachusetts, America; Dr Seuss never earned a Ph.D rather he simply took the title ‘Dr’ in acknowledgment of his family’s unfulfilled hopes of him earning a doctorate in literature during his time at Oxford University. It was during his time at Oxford that he wed and it was later that same year 1927, that he and his new wife Helen returned to America.
On his return to the States he began to develop his career by writing and illustrating humorous articles and cartoons which were published by various magazine titles. It is on his return from a vacation in Europe that Geisel gets the idea for his first poem ‘And to Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street’, the tempo of which was set whilst he listened to the beat of the ships engines.
This poem was to become his first book but was…