ISBN: 9780007414314    Publisher: Harper Collins Year of publishing: 2010     Format:  Paperback Language: English

Three generations have learned to read with Dr. Seuss's classic children's books, which celebrate literacy, self-confidence and the wonderful possibilities of a child's imagination!
600 million Dr. Seuss titles have been sold worldwide, translated into 17 languages and distributed in 95 countries
The dedicated website with Seussian activities (Seussville.com) has 6 million visitors per year
Dr Seuss is a powerful brand with $100 million annual retail sales and $480 million theatrical box office sales
In 1957, Dr. Seuss used 236 words to reinvent the way kids learn to read - 50 years later, The Cat in the Hat is still one of the best-selling titles worldwide
The Cat in the Hat's Learning Library has sold 4.5 million books since its launch in 1998. Individual titles sell 10 times the average early reader book
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Theodor Seuss Geisel better known to millions of his fans as Dr. Seuss was born the son of a park superintendent in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1904. After studying at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, and later at Oxford University in England, he became a magazine humorist and cartoonist, and an advertising man. He soon turned his many talents to writing children s books, and his first book And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street was published in 1937. His greatest claim to fame was the one and only The Cat in the Hat, published in 1957, the first of a hugely successful range of early learning books.
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