[Pan_Yan]

Yes, I noticed that the author can’t do math. He would have been 107 today.

[Pan_Yan]

A Plethora of Cats, one of many "Secret Art" pieces Dr. Seuss created when he wasn't writing children's books.

[Dunstan McShane]

I first became aware of The Cat in the Hat in 1959, when I was seven, and the book was a couple of years old. I was past the target age for the readers of that book by then, but I found Seuss's drawings creepy and disturbing in a way that I couldn't understand. For some reason, they reminded me of that old comic strip Smoky Stover, which had the same effect on me.

As I got a little older, I came across the earlier, pre-Cat Seuss books (like Mulberry Street and the Horton books), and liked them better, but the drawing style still bugged me, and continues to. But I've got to admit to a soft spot for the Grinch.

[codder too]

Geisel was given a list of 'sight words' with which he was to create a story. Cat in a Hat was the result and the birth of modern day 'sight and say' (whole language) began. Now we have a nation of functional illiterates. THANK YOU DR SUESS !!

The old Dick and Jane series started this slide into ignorance.

Phonics work because we see and HEAR language. The dumbing Down has been DELIBERATE. The object is CONTROL.

[MCH]

Regardless of politics, IMHO Dr. Seuss was the best children’s author EVER - bar none. No one even in the same league. Kind of like Sean “the flying tomato” White in the arena of snowboarding.