A Child’s Mind in the Hand of a Genius
‘Drunken Kaiser,’ that is the nickname Theodor Geisel was called as a child. The brewery owned by his father and his German descent contributed to the name, a name that only led to rocks, bottles and obscenities tossed in his direction. There was no fighting back, instead over the course of his 86 years he created some of the greatest cartoons, books and even films to grace the eyes and ears of adults and children everywhere. Described by Jonathan Cott, an author in his own right as, “…a genre, a category, an institution,” Mr. Geisel contributed more to a society than his stories but gave the world something to hold onto forever.His sixty plus books have been translated into 15 languages and are read in over 45 countries. Looking back on his lifetime he witnessed and shaped the minds of children, adults and politicians. Either through cartoons during WWII or in books so simple the vocabulary rarely reached over 400 words. The messages weren’t always clear but the morals dealt with nuclear arms, the environment, war, racial tolerance, and antifascism. Still the text was sim
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Approximate Word count = 733
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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