The Art of Dr Seuss CHRONOLOGY
Writes and designs The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T , a full-length feature film. Receives honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Dartmouth College. How The Grinch Stole Christmas and The Cat in The Hat are published. Random House’s list of best-selling Seuss books ranks The Cat in The Hat at number two. Exhibits at the Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego. Publication of Happy Birthday to You! Publication of Green Eggs and Ham . Random House’s best-selling Seuss book. Publication of One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish . Publication of Hop on Pop . Receives Peabody Awards for television specials How The Grinch Stole Christmas and Horton Hears a Who . The Lorax is published. Exhibits at La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art. Receives Doctor of Humane Letters (Hon) from Lake Forest College, Illinois. Halloween is Grinch Night receives an Emmy Award for Best Children’s Special. Receives Laura Ingalls Wilder award from the American Library Association. The Grinch Grinches the Cat in The Hat receives the Emmy Award for Best Children’s Special. Receives Pulitzer Prize Special Citation award for his “contribution over nearly half a century to the education and enjoyment of America’s children and their parents”. Receives Doctor of Fine Arts (Hon) from Princeton University, New Jersey. Named Literary Lion by the New York Public Library. San Diego Museum of Art exhibition Dr Seuss From Then to Now . The final Dr Seuss book, Oh the Places You’ll Go! is published. It has been on the New York Times top ten bestseller list every year since its release.
Theodor Seuss Geisel is born on March 2. Graduates from Springfield Central High School, Massachusetts. Appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Dartmouth College humour magazine Jack-O-Lantern . Travels in Europe. The Saturday Evening Post purchases one of Ted’s cartoons for $25; his first professionally published cartoon. Lands a job with satirical magazine Judge at $75 per week. Ted’s first advertisement appears in Life magazine, beginning a successful 25-plus year advertising career. Ted’s paintings appear on the covers of Life and Judge. Creates his Collection of Unorthodox Taxidermy . Begins Essomarine advertising campaign for the Standard Oil company of New Jersey. After 27 rejections, the Vanguard Press publishes the first Dr Seuss book. Publication of the first Random House Dr Seuss book, The Seven Lady Godivas . Creates over 400 World War II editorial cartoons for PM magazine. Receives America’s Legion of Merit for World War II educational and informational films. The film Hitler Lives , based on a script Geisel wrote for a film called Your Job in Germany , won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject. Design for Death , a film written by Geisel, wins the Academy Award for Best Short Feature. Moves to La Jolla, California. Book awarded a Caldecott Honor as one of the most distinguished American picture books for children published during the preceding year. Another Caldecott Honor for Bartholomew and the Oobleck . Academy Award for Best Animated Short for the film Gerald McBoing-Boing , for which Geisel wrote the original story. Another Caldecott Honor.
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