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Happy Birthday, Cat in the Hat!
The Cat in the Hat turns 51!
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The Cat in the Hat was intended to be the new classroom reader to replace the "boring" Dick and Jane series that most schools used at the time. The Cat was an instant success, delighting people of all ages with its mischief and clever rhymes. Dr. Seuss used just over 200 words from a vocabulary list for 6 and 7 year-olds to write The Cat in the Hat. It was published in 1957, the peak year of the baby boom when nearly 30 million children were in kindergarten and elementary school and nagging their parents for copies of the book. Later that year Seuss published How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
Dr. Seuss, whose real name was Theodore Geisel, was already a success with children's books, having published ten kids' books and winning Caldecott Honors for McElligot's Pool (1947), Bartholomew and the Oobleck (1949), and If I Ran the Zoo (1950).
Read more and listen at npr.org.
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Celebrate the Cat in the Hat by reading it and other Dr. Seuss books now! Scroll down for a list of titles and links to the catalog.
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Updated: June 24, 2008
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