Horton Hears a Who
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As you should know Tuesdays is book blog day were we talk about one particular book and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is on the book Horton Hears a Who by Dr Seuss.
Horton Hears a Who is the Tale of Horton an Elephant who finds Whoville a tiny planet located on a spec of Dust and his attempts to both save and protect Whoville form the animals who mock him and attempt to end Whoville by stealing and burning the spec of Dust. Over the Story Horton goes to Great lengths to save Whoville from being Incinerated.
Horton Hears a Who was published on August 12th 1954 by Random House with Geisel having written it in the fall of 1953. The books main theme was “A Person's a Person no matter how small” and had been inspired by Geisel's reaction during his visit to Japan. He'd harboured strong Anti-Japanese during and after WW2, however said visit changed his views dramatically and used the book as an allegory for the Americans post-war occupation of the country. Geisel also used the book to express his willingness for companionship AND that the Japanese should be valued equally as the message, especially for the time which was a stressful Post-war era. The Book was dedicated to a Japanese friend. The book went onto be adapted not only for an animated TV special in 1970 but a 2008 animation movie BUT a good chunk of its plot was part of a Broadway musical production called Seussical.
Theodor
Geisel was born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts the son of
Theodor Robert Geisel and Henrietta Geisel Nee Seuss. Theodor Sr
managed the families brewery and was later appointed by mayor John A.
Denison to supervise the local public park system after the brewery
closed due to Prohibition. Due to being of German decent the Geisel
family experienced Anti-German prejudice following the outbreak of
WW1 in 1914. Geisel was raised as a Missouri Synod Lutheran and
remained part of the denomination his entire life.
Geisel would adopt the name DR Seuss as an undergrad at Dartmouth College and a grad student at Lincoln College, Oxford. He'd go onto being an illustrator and cartoonist at Vanity Fair after leaving Oxford in 1927, he would take a break from children's literature to illustrate political cartoons during WW2 and work in animation and film department for the US department producing Design for Death which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1947.
Geisel died of Cancer at the age of 81 on September 24th1991 at his home in the La Jolla community in San Diego, California. Four years later on December 1st 1995, the University of California, San Diego's University Library building was renamed Geisel Library in honour of the author and Audrey (his second wife) for the generous contributions made to the library and for their devotion to improving literacy.
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