Each year, communities across America celebrate with the National Education Association’s signature program, NEA’s Read Across America. Working with libraries, schools and community organizations, this program focuses on motivating children and teens to read through events that celebrate reading on March 2, the birthday of beloved children’s author Dr. Seuss.
This year, the staff at the Sweetwater County Library are proud to present a special Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss Party.
We will be filling the library with more Seuss than you might think is possible. Each station will highlight one of Dr. Seuss’s beloved books. Come create Cat in the Hat whiskers, Thing One and Thing Two boxes. Make your own super Seuss snack mix, and we will have a visit with the one and only Cat in the Hat! Our Super Saturday Dr. Seuss Party will be on Feb. 28, from 1 to 3 p.m.
I want to share a little about Dr. Seuss. As I researched more about this fan favorite author, I was surprised by how much I didn’t know. Even as a children’s librarian I never realized that Seuss was his mother’s maiden name. I had always assumed that Seuss was a fun, made up word, similar to yekko, sneedle, zizzer-zazzer-zuzz, ham-ikka-schnim-ikka-schnam-ikka-schnopp, or truffula, just to name a few of the fantastic words that appear in Dr. Seuss’s books. If you want to pronounce the name the way his family did, say “Zoice”, not Soose.
Theodor Seuss Geisel was born March 2, 1904. Known as “Ted” to family and friends, he liked to say that he adopted the name “Dr. Seuss” because he was saving his real name for the great American novel he would one day write. Whether or not this was true is open to speculation. Dr. Seuss may have been kidding reporters.
His first published children’s book was “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” in 1937. Dr. Seuss wrote and illustrated 44 books. The book that many people remember him for, “The Cat in the Hat” in 1957, was Seuss’s 13th children’s book.
The Sweetwater County Library System is offering a number of programs at the Rock Springs, White Mountain and Sweetwater County libraries. The White Mountain and Rock Springs libraries are each hosting a Dr. Seuss party on Feb. 27 from 1-3 p.m. Each library is creating their own afternoon of Seussical fun.
Story time in Green River will be Seusserific! On March 3 at 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. and on March 4 at 9:30 and 11 a.m. preschool-aged children are welcome to play with the youth services librarians as we celebrate with our favorite Dr. Seuss books.
Come on in and visit the Youth Services area at the Sweetwater County Library.
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