Hutchinson News (Newspaper) - September 26, 1991, Hutchinson, Kansas Dr. S euss Continued from Page 1 of six of his favorites - to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry 500 Hats of Bartholomew Hears a the and the Grinch Stole His last new story was published in 1990: the Places You'll The title was indicative of the Seuss for his books were whimsical forays into the world of nonsense and with characters who captivated children through rhyme and Especially Although so many children's authors worked to convey a message of good characters refused to be And his millions of young readers loved his and grinches grouching in sneetches lurking in the green-headed Quilligan quail and the Cat in the who misbehaved and ignored the rules of the Geisel was an illustrator first and writer He would tack his drawings onto the corkboard of his studio walls in muse over them and then write the accompanying nonsense Sometimes an illustrated story line would befuddle him for two years before he could marry it to other he would crank out his verses in just a few all our authors were as he we wouldn't need said Janet publisher of the children's book division at Random House and his personal he'd give us a rhyme that was a little or a word that might not He'd think about it and sometimes he'd change it - but usually he and that was will never be another Ted Friends said Geisel painstakingly separated his close-knit social life from his work - a self-disciplined 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. job where he would sequester himself in a studio that provided him with a 180-degrec view of the Pacific coastline from Mexico to But what linked Seuss and Geisel was never told but he's funnier and more spontaneous than anyone I've ever said close friend and Jeanne without a the brightest person I've ever He had the quickest absolutely sharp and If he had the he could have been the world's greatest stand-up But if Geisel enjoyed entertaining his he took perhaps his greatest satisfaction in helping introduce a new order to traditional children's In an interview in 1984, Geisel pulled off the shelf The Riverside a dog-eared primer he used in 1909 when he was in the first As he turned the he pointed out the dull passages and mundane story wanted to get rid of primers like he feel my greatest accomplishment was getting rid of Dick and Jane and encouraging students to approach reading as a not a old readers were the most stupid way to teach That constant repetition just turned them off to I tried to turn them Geisel had a tremendous impact on children's reading habits and the way reading is taught and approached in the school He never wrote a but his works have been used as supplementary readers for one of the pillars in children's said Isabel a professor of children's literature at California State San and a consultant to children's book today is embracing what we call a language in which children read books they vs. books they're told to read for and books are central to that she Geisel won acclaim from his audience long before he received it from the went through a long period of being a bit condescended to by the children's literature critical said John president of the Children's Book a New national trade association of children's book a long there was a kind of dismissive view of him because he was too popular and because his vocabulary was so But as time has worn they've done a complete he Associated Press photo Theodor Seuss better known as the popular children's author Dr shown here shaking hands with the title character of one of his most popular 'The Cat in the died Tuesday night at his house in La after an illness of several who received a 1984 Pulitzer Prize for his contribution to children's was 87. Page 2 Hutchinson News Sept. 26,1991 Books by Dr. Seuss The Associated Press NEW YORK - Here are the books by Theodor Seuss known to around the world as Dr. to Think That I Saw It on 1937 500 Hats of Bartholomew * 1937 't Seven Lady adult 193T King's 1939 r Hatches the 1940 1947 j the Big-Hearted 1948 J and the 1949 j I Ran the 1950 Eggs 1953 J Hears a 1954 ( Beyond 1955 I Ran the 1956 the Grinch Stole 1957 4 Cat in the 1957 the 1958 ( J Cat in the Hat Comes 1958 Birthday to 1959 j Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue * 1960 J Eggs and 1960 i Sneetches and Other 1961 J Seuss's Sleep 1962 5 On 1963 j Seuss's ABC 1963 j Had Trouble Getting to Solla 1065 ' in 1965 Cat in the Hat 1967 Foot 1968 I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today and Other J 1969 Book About 1969 ' } Can Draw It 1970 Brown Can Can 1970 I 1971 J K. Will You Please 1972 J Shape of Me and Other 1973 * I Ever Tell You How Lucky You 1973 ' } a Wocket in My 1974 ' Day for 1974 J the Thinks You Can 1975 Cat's 1976 Can Read With My Eyes 1978 Say Can You 1979 in 1982 Butter Battle 1984 Only Old adult 1986 Am Not Going to Get Up 1987 the Places You'll 1990 Iraq Continued from Page 1 lot standoff to the broader issue of how to make Iraq comply with U.N. resolutions authorizing the assumption he has a pattern that will continue regardless of the inspector and we need to find a solution that will end this game the official Gen. Colin chairman of the Joint Chiefs of sounded a similar theme Wednesday on Capitol telling a House panel that patience was wearing thin with the Iraqi In its Iraq requested that Swedish Ambassador Rolf director of the U.N. Special Commission on come to Baghdad to discuss a solution to the But if cannot come within 48 the letter goes on to Iraq will allow the U.N. inspection team to leave provided the inspectors and Iraqi authorities jointly draw up a record of all the documents the team wants to Even before Wednesday night's both the White House and the United Nations appeared to be playing down prospects for immediate military After the tough warnings of last when Bush said he was prepared to enforce U.N. inspections with U.S. fighter the president yesterday brushed aside questions on the matter and his press Marlin suggested that the fate was in the hands of the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy not the White think the inspectors are not being Fitzwater just can't take out the documents they Adding to the impression that the inspectors have not considered themselves to be in immediate team leader David Kay continued his regular telephone contacts with U.S. news telling interviewers yesterday that the inspectors were busying themselves with taking escorted trips to the bathroom and generally making the best of delightful unplanned camping in the middle of a Baghdad parking The standoff was the latest in a series of incidents in which Iraq has sought to block U.N. inspectors from gathering information on the its weapons U.N. officials said the materials contained important new information on the administrative and financial operations of Iraq's They said they had no intention of backing down on what they considered the essential legal principle that the inspectors had to be allowed to go wherever and whenever they like to unearth the secrets of Iraqi weapons Leukemia claims of U.S. Forces in the Gulf 4fr 2 patriot missile battalions 1,300 200 aircraft stealth fighter tank AW refueling spy aircraft Ships 2 aircraft 2 marine amphibious assault dozens of other warships 36,300 military personnel 11,200 4.750 Air 16,000 4,000 marines in Saudi Barbie Ross Toro Rockport Comfort Sale C AllE A and ON OUR ENTIRE STOCK of RO OM V C 1 V more SHOES for MEN and The France - Klaus the Nazi war criminal known as the Butcher of Lyon for his Gestapo activities in occupied died of leukemia Wednesday night in the city he plagued during World War Barbie was 77. 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EXPRESS DISCOVER Continued from Page 1 and the chairmen of the ways and means and education committees of both Gov. 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Monday through 5:30 a.m. to 12 noon Saturday and in any new balance of rural property against urban Resolution also may involve new formulas to distribute the vast pool of money that has escaped the J requirements of the % school finance formula - namely J the million in tax * transportation and special * tion { can't imagine that bringing } these things under an equalization formula won't be ock are political problems with a capital P. school finance is now in judicial where we are * interpret and apply the * I could just hear the case and decide it. That would not be j for and it wouldn't be j for the I want to try a j tive Better this than to let things get out of I New charges in case i1 EL DORADO - New charges were filed Wednesday a J man already charged in the j slayings oi two Benton Delbert E. 38, | waived a preliminary hearing scheduled for Wednesday in Butler County District faces J tional charges of aggravated j aggravated kidnapping and unlawful possession of a ' Highman was charged with two counts of first de- } gree murder in the shooting deaths of Mildred A. 66, and her Janet A. 3 41-
