Dr. Seuss' "Did I Ever Tell You..?"

The Daily Poem

Goldberry Studios

Education For Kids, Arts, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Today’s poem is a piece of uncollected verse from one of the world’s most beloved children’s writers: Dr. Seuss.

Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) was an American children's author and cartoonist. He is known for his work writing and illustrating more than 60 books under the pen name Dr. Seuss. His work includes many of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to The Daily Poem, a podcast from Goldberry Studios.
0:04.8	I'm Sean Johnson, and today is Monday, March 4th, 2024.
0:11.3	March 2nd would have been the 120th birthday of Theodore Gaisal,
0:18.6	better known by his pseudonym, Dr. Seuss.
0:22.3	That's right, The Daily Poin is finally doing Dr. Seuss.
0:28.0	Seuss is one of the best-selling children's authors of all time, and he's known the world
0:34.7	over for his clever and colorful illustrations,
0:39.3	his rhyming, literative verse,
0:44.5	and his politically charged children's books.
0:53.5	Seuss is best known for works like
0:57.5	Cat in the Hat, How the Grinch Stole Christmas,
1:01.1	Green Eggs and Ham, Horton, Here's a Who, the Lorax,
1:04.5	etc, etc, etc.
1:08.7	Et cetera.
1:10.2	He is something of a controversial figure.
1:17.0	He's always on somebody's naughty list, whether it's for propaganda he created for the
1:27.2	government during World War II,
1:29.2	for insensitive racial depictions in his works,
1:33.6	or for any number of political messages inserted directly into his stories,
1:40.7	as he himself said,
1:43.2	I'm subversive as hell.
1:46.2	And he was talking of his work as a children's author.
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