You might know that Dr. Seuss was not, in fact, a doctor, or that the beloved children’s book author never had littles Seusslettes of his own. But did you know that Theodor Seuss Geisel’s first book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, was rejected by 20 to 29 publishers (depending on […]
As a kid, it didn’t matter how many works of classic literature my parents gave me. All I wanted to read was my ripped-up book of silly tongue twisters. Why? I don’t know. Maybe because of the challenge. It’s not often that a book literally dares a kid to read it out loud. (There’s not […]