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SELECTED BYLAURA GUIDO-CLARKDR. SEUSSDESIGNED BYDR. SEUSS
Books uninspired, the classrooms were bored. Illiterate children created a war. Until one man, a doctor, referred to as Seuss stood up to the challenge and called it a truce.
Armed with his pencils he thought he would try to begin with blank paper and a question called “Why?” Unleashing the powers of his imaginative mind he created a wonder, a new paradigm.
Rendering his characters in round droopy form and elaborate machines that were out of the norm he took 50 small words and a creature named Sam to a best-selling reader named Green Eggs and Ham.
No longer a drudgery, no longer deploredvoracious new readers were clamoring for more.And still I remember the school library nook ...
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