The Cat in the Hat
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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 Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss.
The Cat in the Hat is the Story of a young nameless boy who narrates the tale of an anthropomorphic white and red-striped Hat wearing Cat with white gloves and a red bow tie visiting him, his little sister Sally and their pet fish whilst their mother is out, causing a variety of chaotic issues with his sidekicks Thing One and Thing Two and creating a horrific mess. As the Children and the fish grow more and more horrified over the chaos the Cat clears up his mess and leaves just before their mothers return. The story ends with both the children being hesitant with answering her question of what they did whilst she was out and the question asked “What would you do if your mother asked you?”
The Cat in the Hat was written by American author Theodor Geisel under his popular and well
known pen name Dr Seuss. The Cat in the Hat was written and published by both Houghton Mifflin and Random House which was caused by an agreement between Geisel and William Spaulding of Houghton Mifflin, due to contract with Random House, said publishers covering general release on March 1st 1957 and Houghton Mifflin covering release in schools around January/February 1957. Both had different covers despite the print being identical.
Geisel gave varied accounts as to how he created The Cat in the Hat. One version included Geisel being frustrated with a list of words given to him by William Spaulding of Houghton Mifflin and picking out the first two words that rhymed Cat and Hat and made a story out of them. Another version which Geisel told his biographers Judith and Neil Morgan that the stories beginning was conceived in an elevator in the Boston offices of Houghton Mifflin which was operated by a small very elegant woman of African American decent named Annie Williams, Geisel was said to have based the original drawing of the cat in the hat on Williams, giving the cat her “white gloves and sly even foxy smile”.
Selling near one million copies after being in print for three years, the cat in the hat had been translated into various languages including Chinese, Swedish, French and Braille. By 2001 it had been placed at number nine of Publishers weekly list of best selling children books. As of 2007 The cat in the hat has been printed over ten million times an translated into more than twelve languages including Latin. On the books fiftieth birthday in 2007 Random House released The Anointed Cat: Under the hats of Seuss an His cats. Which includes the cat and the hat and its sequel, with Philip Nel providing an introduction and annotations. The Cat in the Hat received an adaption into an animation special for TV in 1971 and a movie starring both Mike Myers and Alec Baldwin in 2003.
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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