ROSWELL, Ga. -- Celebrate the man who gave us “The Cat in the Hat,” “Green Eggs and Ham,” Thing One and Thing Two, and the Grinch this weekend.
Ann Jackson Gallery plans to have Seuss-themed cakes, treats and special Seussian prizes for the best dressed Dr. Seuss characters on Saturday, Feb. 29 and Sunday, March 1 to celebrate the life of the beloved author. Dr. Seuss would have turned 116 on March 2.
The party will also showcase some of Theodor Seuss Geisel’s unknown works, too.
Visitors will be able to explore and acquire works from Dr. Seuss’s best-known children’s books, as well as The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss Collection, a mind-expanding collection based on decades of artwork that Dr. Seuss created at night for his own personal pleasure. Perhaps the wackiest and most wonderful elements of the collection are Dr. Seuss’s three-dimensional Unorthodox Taxidermy sculptures with names like the Carbonic Walrus, the Two-Horned Drouberhannis, and the Goo-Goo-Eyed Tasmanian Wolghast, to name a few.
Here are a few facts about Dr. Seuss:
-He was not an official doctor, but his prescription for fun has delighted readers for more than 60 years.
-Dr. Seuss was an Ivy Leaguer. He attended Dartmouth College.
-While in class at Oxford University, which he attended after Dartmouth, Helen Palmer noticed his doodling. She suggested that he should become an artist. He took her advice and married her, too.
-According to abebooks.com, the first recorded instance of the word “nerd” was in Dr. Seuss’ “If I Ran the Zoo" book.
-Dr. Seuss’ editor bet him he couldn’t write a book using 50 different words or less. Thus, “Green Eggs and Ham” was born. It uses exactly 50 words.