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nyoki (UID# 3444) 0  0
November 14, 2009 at 6:16 pm

No words are fun to read? This coming from a man w/ his own blog? Besides, I said “fun to read out loud“. Dr Seuus wrote the children’s books the wa he did to promote literacy. The books used to teach kids to read were ponderous and impractical.

At the same time, an important development occurred that influenced much of Geisel’s later work. In May 1954, Life magazine published a report on illiteracy among school children, which concluded that children were not learning to read because their books were boring. Accordingly, William Ellsworth Spaulding, a textbook editor at Houghton Mifflin who later became its Chairman, compiled a list of 348 words he felt were important for first-graders to recognize and asked Geisel to cut the list to 250 words and write a book using only those words.[8] Spaulding challenged Geisel to “bring back a book children can’t put down.” [9] Nine months later, Geisel, using 236 of the words given to him, completed The Cat in the Hat. This book was a tour de force[who?]—it retained the drawing style, verse rhythms, and all the imaginative power of Geisel’s earlier works, but because of its simplified vocabulary could be read by beginning readers. These books achieved significant international success and they remain very popular.
wiki: Dr Seuss

nyoki (UID# 3444) 0  0
November 15, 2009 at 2:52 am

Is that so? Do tell.