On this day in history, in the year 1904, Theodor Geisel, best
known to the world as Dr. Seuss, was born in Springfield,
Massachusetts. It is hard to know at the time if he knew how he
felt about green eggs and ham, but we can safely assume that he
wouldn’t have liked them, Sam I am. Under his pen name, Geisel
published over 60 children’s books that were made popular by
their imaginative, rhyming, trisyllabic meter-ness. His most
famous include The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham and How
the Grinch Stole Christmas. As you know, his work as been
adapted into several feature-length films. Chuck Jones directed
animated versions of How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Horton
Hears a Who! in the late 60s and early 70s. Two live action
adaptations — the Jim Carry led Grinch and Mike Myers led Cat in
the Hat — were released in 2000 and 2003 respectively, with a
CGI Horton Hears a Who! hitting theaters in 2008. Needless to
say, the man has had quite an impact on several generations of
young readers. As part of the R