Children

When Theodore Geisel—better known as “Dr. Seuss”—died a few months ago, the entire News Media rushed to pay him tribute. Many of the TV, radio and newspaper epitaphs were written in his own literary style. Some were actual excerpts from his own writings. One such tribute read as follows:

Then we saw him pick up
All the things that were down.

He picked up the cake,
And the rake, and the gown,
And the milk, and the strings,
And the books, and the dish,
And the fan, and the cup,
And the ship, and the fish.

And he put them away.
Then he said, “That is that.”
And then he was gone
With a tip of his hat.

Dr. Seuss delighted children and adults both with visions of “Truffula Trees,” “Ziffs,” “Nerkles” and “Grinches.” Shortly before he died, he said, “I think I have helped kids laugh in school and at home. That’s enough, isn’t it?”