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Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! Authors Celebrate By Reading Out Loud

The Huffington Post Canada   First Posted: 03/ 2/2012 7:17 am Updated: 03/19/2012 9:39 pm

Is Dr. Seuss the most "read aloud" author ever? Between the illustrations, the easy-to-follow words and the surprisingly character-rich plots, Dr. Seuss's books have created a bedtime tradition for so many children and parents.

So, in honour of what would have been Theodore Seuss Geisel's 108th birthday, Random House Canada has put the book in its "natural" state and brought together three diverse authors - Kevin O'Leary, Ami McKay, and Erin Morgenstern -- to read the classic One Fish Two Fish aloud in a video. It's a good opportunity to indulge in a bit of nostalgia and watch the imaginative illustrations onscreen, in their original etchings.

With his green-before-its-time book, The Lorax, just released an animated film and inspiring a whole new generation (despite also being used to sell cars), Dr. Seuss is still a pop culture force to be reckoned with. His artwork, in the form of pictures, sculptures and "taxidermy" can be found at galleries across North America, and this birthday always loosely corresponds with "Read Across America Day," made up of events dedicated to kids reading.

As the man himself wrote in Happy Birthday To You!, "Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."

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Is Dr. Seuss the most "read aloud" author ever? Between the illustrations, the easy-to-follow words and the surprisingly character-rich plots, Dr. Seuss's books have created a bedtime tradition for so...
Is Dr. Seuss the most "read aloud" author ever? Between the illustrations, the easy-to-follow words and the surprisingly character-rich plots, Dr. Seuss's books have created a bedtime tradition for so...
 
 
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09:31 PM on 03/02/2012
I must say I haven't read a whole lot of dr Seuss, but seen some of the movies. At 26, I still love the Dr Suess stuff and encourage my young sister in law to read the stories. These will always be classics and a treasure for childhoods.

Green eggs and ham. Loved that book.
08:07 PM on 03/02/2012
I have to say I enjoyed that immensely!! Happy B'Day Dr. Suess!
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02:06 PM on 03/02/2012
One of my favorites is "Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose"; it's a book to re-read as an adult. (That really applies to all of Seuss' books!)
01:31 PM on 03/02/2012
-one fish two fish. makes me cry. i read and read and read this to my 3 year old...