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Audrey Grace Florine Stone (August 14, 1921 – December 19, 2018) was the second wife of American children's book author Theodor Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss), to whom she was married from 1968 until his death in 1991.
Montgomery County's sick and safe leave law, enacted on October 1, 2016, grants up to 56 hours of paid sick leave to anyone who works more than 8 hours a week and for a company with more than 5 employees. [24] All employers are required by Maryland law to inform their workers in writing the amount of available earned sick and safe leave. [25]
Great Day for Up! is a children's book written by Dr. Seuss and illustrated by Quentin Blake.It was published by Random House on August 28, 1974. [2] It is the first book credited to Seuss not illustrated by the author himself, though Seuss had previously collaborated with illustrators on other books under the pen name Theo LeSieg.
Dr. Seuss Enterprises is celebrating the iconic children's author's 120th birthday with a free giveaway of “The Cat in the Hat” to U.S. residents who have a baby born this March 2.
When analyzing the wording of several Dr. Seuss books, communications professor Lois Einhorn determined that 72% of its words in I Am Not Going to Get Up Today! have positive connotations and 28% have negative connotations. This was a higher proportion of positive words than most of the other Dr. Seuss books she analyzed.
You're Only Old Once! was Seuss's first adult book since The Seven Lady Godivas, which was published in 1939. The Seven Lady Godivas sold fewer than 500 copies when it was first released, [ 3 ] but You're Only Old Once! reached No. 1 on The New York Times Best Seller list, [ 4 ] and remained on the list for over 60 weeks.
On March 2, 2021, Dr. Seuss Enterprises, owner of the rights to Seuss's works, withdrew On Beyond Zebra! and five other books from publication because of imagery they deemed "hurtful and wrong". [7] The book depicts a character called "Nazzim of Bazzim". Nazzim is "of unspecified nationality". He rides a "Spazzim", a fantasy-creature resembling ...
It was one of the bestselling paperback books of World War II, with 1.34 million copies in print by 1945. [2] "The Pocket Book of ___" was the proprietary title cliché of the publisher. [3] The Pocket Book of Boners contains 22 illustrations of boners (howlers, blunders), drawn by Dr. Seuss. The rest of the volume consists of short jokes and ...