The line from the book "A person's a person, no matter how small" has been used as a slogan for pro-life organizations for years. The 50 words, by the way, are: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you. Not one to back down from a challenge, Geisel started writing and came up with Green Eggs and Ham-which uses exactly 50 words. The Cat in the Hat was pretty simple, after all, and it used 225 words. Seuss's editor, bet him that he couldn't write a book using 50 words or less. Pease writes in his biography of the author, Seuss "analyzed the reading process, particularly the part that pertained to a child's ability to correlate words with images and sounds that made them legible" before he started writing. Because kids weren't interested in the material, they weren't exactly compelled to use it repeatedly in their efforts to learn to read. Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat because he thought the famous Dick and Jane primers were boring.
Seuss agreed and said that it wouldn't be in future editions. Another interesting fact: The Lorax used to contain the line, "I hear things are just as bad up in Lake Erie," but 14 years after the book was published, students at the Ohio Sea Grant Education Program wrote to Seuss and told him how much the conditions had improved and implored him to take the line out. (The character may have been inspired by a real-life monkey.) Groups within the logging industry weren't very happy about it and later sponsored Truax-a similar book, but from the logging point of view. Seuss's take on environmentalism and how humans are destroying nature. Here's a little background on some of his greatest hits. Seuss, wasn't actually a doctor (at least not until his alma mater, Dartmouth, gave him an honorary degree), but his unique poetic meter and leap-off-the-page illustrations made him one of the most successful children's writers in history.
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