If you have a chance to read this week's column, which will be posted on Thursday at goerie.com, please do so. I delve into my own admiration of Dr. Seuss and share some of the reasons why his works have become classics. It's enormously difficult to become successful in the world of children's books. Just ask any aspiring writer and illustrator. Writing for children, especially for beginning readers, is so much more than just picking a clever theme, inventing a cute character and stringing together monosyllabic words for a few pages. It's an art, a science, and an academic challenge and one pioneered to a large degree by Theodor Seuss Geisel.
All of that aside, Geisel also wrote with his heart as well as his head. His beliefs about the world and humanity translated into much of the work that has been published and tops the list of beloved children's classics.
It was his birthday last week, and in homage, Read Across America day was named for him. It doesn't get much better than that.
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