Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Great Regulars: Theodor Seuss Geisel was born

on March 2, 1904, in Springfield, Massachusetts. His father was a brewmaster and his mother the daughter of a baker.

As a young woman, his mother had worked in her father's shop, where she memorized the names of each pastry to recite to her customers. When Geisel was a young boy, she often recited her "pie-selling chants" to lull him to sleep. Later in life, Geisel would attribute his poetic impulses to his mother's rhyming.

from findingDulcinea: Happy Birthday: Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss, Children's Book Writer/Illustrator

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