 It is Dr. Seuss’s birthday!!! Born Theodore Geisel in 1904. Geisel went to work with his father, a zookeeper, the future Dr. Seuss ran around in cages with baby tigers, etc.. Seuss was his mother’s maiden name. Dr. Seuss felt young reader’s needed books that brought fun not the dull “see spot run”. A publisher challenged him to write a book a 1st grader could not put down. The Cat in the Hat answered the challenge. “Every word has to count” Dr. Seuss said.