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...license plates on his silver Cadillac bear the word GRINCH. But no one in his neighborhood of La Jolla, Calif., is fooled. The driver is no grouch. He is Theodor Geisel, better known by his flowing pseudonymous signature Dr. Seuss. He celebrated turning 80 last week by turning out his 42nd children's story, The Butter Battle Book (Random House; 48 pages; $6.95). An arms-race "preachment," as he calls it, the tale features no grinches, just a confrontational competition between average, everyday Yooks and Zooks who are suspicious of each other because the former prefer eating bread with...
...Massachusetts-born author is a long way (100 million books sold worldwide) from his 1937 start. But he still puts in eight hours a day, five days a week at his desk, although the desk now overlooks the Pacific from the dream house he helped design. Geisel, whose nom de plume is an amalgam of his mother's maiden name and a self-bestowed doctorate, "which came from the fact that I saved my father $25,000 by dropping out of Oxford," next plans a nonsense book. He is also working on a Broadway play for adults, and this...
...they only want the meat of it." If the idea of a Seuss book being barren seems surprising, imagine the reaction of the occasional young visitor bold enough to call on the Wizard of Whimsy. "They expect me to be a cow with a nose that lights up," says Geisel with a shrug. "I'm too square...
...talked the hunches over,/ up and down and through and through./ We argued and we barg-ued!/ We decided what to do." The jingling verse of Hunches in Bunches (Random House; $5.95) could come only from the prescription pad of Dr. Seuss (a.k.a. Theodor Geisel). At 78, Geisel retains his unique ability to wrap a concept in clothing. This time he portrays hunches, tempting the indecisive protagonist away from his homework. The good doctor is an eye-and-ear specialist; his infectious rhymes are meant to be read aloud...
When his birthday rolls around, Theodor Seuss Geisel usually hides out in Las Vegas to avoid being "smothered with love." Rather Grinch-like behavior for the author adored by children the world over as Dr. Seuss, but better than facing truckloads of treacly fan mail and thousands of pint-size pilgrims on his doorstep. Last week, however, the good "doctor" turned 77 at home in La Jolla, Calif., braving an avalanche of affection that was greater than ever. The reason: Governors of 15 states had declared March 2 Dr. Seuss Day. Indiana's Robert Orr went...