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Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, published over 60 children's books over the course of his long career. Though most were published under his well-known pseudonym, Dr. Seuss, he also authored over a dozen books as Theo. LeSieg and one as Rosetta Stone. As one of the most popular children's authors of all time, Geisel's books have topped many bestseller lists, sold over 222 million copies, and been translated into more than 15 languages.[1] In 2000, Publishers Weekly compiled a list of the best-selling children's books of all time; of the top 100 hardcover books, 16 were written by Geisel, including Green Eggs and Ham, at number 4, The Cat in the Hat, at number 9, and One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, at number 13.[2] In the years after his death in 1991, several additional books have been published based on his sketches and notes; these include Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! and Daisy-Head Mayzie. Though they were all published under the name Dr. Seuss, only My Many Colored Days, originally written in 1973, was entirely by Geisel.

Dr. Seuss books

The bulk Theodor Seuss Geisel's books were published under the name of Dr. Seuss'. These books were illustrated and written by Geisel.

Title Synopsis Original publication year
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street Marco watches the sight and sounds of people and vehicles traveling along Mulberry Street and dreams up an elaborate story to tell to his father at the end of his walk. 1937
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins In the Kingdom of Didd, King Derwin is riding through a street past Bartholomew Cubbins, a poor boy in the market. Bartholomew removes his hat, according to the laws, but another hat mysteriously appears; when he attempts to remove this one too, another one appears again, and this continues, even as he removes more and more hats, each growing in extravagance and beauty. 1938
The King's Stilts The King's Stilts tells the story of King Birtram of Binn, who dedicates himself to safeguarding his kingdom, which lives in a precarious existence. It is surrounded by water, which is held back from flooding the land by a ring of dike trees, which are in turn subject to attack from flocks of nizzards. To protect the kingdom, a legion of Patrol Cats is organized to keep the nizzards at bay, and King Bertram sees to their care personally. 1939
The Seven Lady Godivas Not one of the seven Godiva sisters ever wears clothing. 1939
Horton Hatches the Egg An elephant named Horton is convinced by an irresponsible bird named Mayzie to sit on her egg while she takes a short "break", which proves to last for months. 1940
McElligot's Pool
Caldecott Honor Book 		A boy named Marco is ridiculed for fishing in a small, polluted pool, and tries to justify himself by imagining the fish he might catch. It is one of the few books by Geisel to utilize paintings as the medium for its illustrations, rather than his common use of pen and ink. 1947
Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose Thidwick, a moose who lives in a herd "about sixty or more" , accepts a bug living on his antlers for free, who tells a spider of the free housing, and both accept a "Zinn-a-zu" bird. 1948
Bartholomew and the Oobleck
Caldecott Honor Book 		Bartholomew, who must rescue his kingdom from a sticky substance called oobleck. The book is a sequel to The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins. 1949
If I Ran the Zoo
Caldecott Honor Book 		Gerald McGrew visits a zoo and finds that the animals are "not good enough". He says that if he ran the zoo, he would let all of the current animals free and find new, more bizarre and exotic ones. 1950
Scrambled Eggs Super! A young boy named Peter T. Hooper spins a tale of an incredible meal he created by harvesting the eggs of fantastically exotic birds. 1953
Horton Hears a Who!
Also a featured length film. 		Horton the Elephant of the Jungle of Nool hears a small speck of dust talking to him. The speck of dust is actually a tiny planet, home to a city called ‘‘Who-ville’’, inhabited by microscopic-sized inhabitants known as Whos and led by a character known as the mayor. 1954
On Beyond Zebra! The young narrator, not content with the confines of the ordinary alphabet, invents additional letters beyond Z, with a fantastic creature corresponding to each new letter. 1955
If I Ran the Circus Behind Mr. Sneelock's ramshackle store, there's an empty lot. Little Morris McGurk is convinced that if he could just clear out the rusty cans, the dead tree, and the old cars, nothing would prevent him from using the lot for the amazing, world-beating, Circus McGurkus. 1956
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Also a featured length film 		The Grinch, a bitter, cave-dwelling, cat-like creature with a heart "two sizes too small," tries to steal everything related to Christmas my impersonating Santa Claus. Eventually he realizes he has a heart for christmas after all. 1957
File:Seuss-cat-hat.gif The Cat in the Hat
Also a featured length film 		The Character, Cat in then Hat, in addition to thing one and thing two, brings a cheerful, exotic and exuberant form of chaos to a household of two young children one rainy day while their mother leaves them unattended. 1957
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back The Cat in the Hat makes a return appearance. On this occasion, he leaves Thing One and Thing Two at home, but does bring along Little Cat A, nested inside his hat. Little Cat A doffs his hat to reveal Little Cat B, who in turn reveals C, and so on down to the microscopic Little Cat Z. Together they try to get rid of a pink ring which has spread from the bathtub to the dress, the wall some shoes, and finally out in the snow where they have to work really hard to get rid of it. 1958
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories Consists of three stories:
  • "Yertle the Turtle": Unsatisfied with the stone that serves as his throne, the king turtle he commands the other turtles to stack themselves beneath him so that he can see further and expand his kingdom.
  • "Gertrude McFuzz"- a tale of the"girl-bird" Gertrude McFuzz, who has a small, plain tail and envies Lolla-Lee-Lou, who has two tail feathers.
  • "The Big Brag"- a rabbit and a bear, who both boast that they are the "best of the beasts", because of the range of their hearing and smelling abilities, respectively.
 1958
Happy Birthday to You! Happy Birthday to You!" deals with a fantastic land, called Katroo, where the Birthday Bird throws everyone an amazing party on their special day. 1959
File:1fish.jpg One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish A simple rhyming book for learner readers, that has a freewheeling plot about a boy and a girl, and the many amazing creatures they have for friends and pets. 1960
File:Greenegg.gif Green Eggs and Ham Sam constantly badgers the an unnamed character to try green eggs and ham. The unnamed character refuses to taste the dish, insisting that he would not like it. 1960
File:Sneetches.gif The Sneetches and Other Stories Consists of four stories:
  • "The Sneetches": a "fix-it-up chappie" named Sylvester McMonkey McBean appears, he offers the Sneetches without stars a chance to have them by going through his Star-On machine because the star bellied sneetches are being prejudice to the plain bellied sneetches. Shows the reader that racism is not the way to go.
  • "The Zax": A North-going Zax and a South-going Zax meet face to face in the Prairie of Prax. They refuse to move out of the way for one another and end up staying there until a highway is built. Teaches the value of compromise.
  • "Too Many Daves": a story about a mother, Mrs. McCave, who named all 23 of her sons Dave and has trouble telling them apart.
  • "What Was I Scared Of?": The tale of a character who repeatedly meets up with an empty pair of pale-green pants and has to learn to accept them.
 1961
Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book This book begins with a small bug yawning. This yawn spreads (as yawns are terribly contagious) and then the book follows various creatures, including the Foona Lagoona Baboona, the Collaspable Frink, the Chippendale Mupp, The Oft, and the Krandles, throughout the lands who are sleeping, or preparing to sleep. 1962
Dr. Seuss's ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book! A alphabet book which features many strange creatures. 1963
Hop on Pop Hop on Pop provides very simple rhymes to help beginner reading, such as a character named Pat who sits on a hat, a cat and a bat but must not sit on that which happens to be a cactus. Shows a variety of characters and teaches kids sentence composition. 1963
Fox in Socks Fox and his partner Mr. Knox, converse almost entirely in densely rhyming tongue-twisters which gets on Mr Knox's nerves. 1965
I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew A Tale of a young person who discovers the "troubles" of life and wishes to escape them. 1965
The Cat in the Hat Song Book A book exploring a wide variety of Dr. Seuss songs. 1967
The Foot Book About why one should not judge any one because of what they look like or in this case their feet. 1968
I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories The title story concerns a boy who brags that he can fight 30 tigers and win. He makes excuse after excuse, finally disqualifying all the tigers until he must fight no tigers at all. The illustrations are notable for their use of gauche and brush strokes rather than the usual pen and ink. Others stories include "King Looie Katz", another warning against hierarchical society advocating self-reliance, and "The Glunk That Got Thunk" about the power of run-away imagination. 1969
My Book about ME This book is deliberately incomplete: There are blanks on every page where the reader is meant to fill in answers specific to him or her. 1970
I Can Draw It Myself This book is a coloring book featuring rhyming instructions to help children complete various pictures, culminating in a challenge to the child to draw his or her own "Big Something." The full title of the book is I Can Draw It Myself by Me, Myself. 1970
Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?: Dr. Seuss's Book of Wonderful Noises! The book follows the sounds "Mr. Brown" can make, such as a cow's "moo", a frying pan's "sizzle", and a hippo's "grum". The book was written so children would be able to learn about onomatopoeia and sounds that children hear every day. 1970
The Lorax The Lorax chronicles the plight of the environment and the Lorax (a mossy, bossy man-like creature resembling an emperor tamarin), who speaks for the trees against the greedy Once-ler. 1971
Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! Marvin K. Mooney is asked to leave in many ways. 1972
Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? This books talks about the litany of terrible predicaments which could befall a person, with the repeated admonishment that "you're really quite lucky". 1973
The Shape of Me and Other Stuff This book explores the adventures of two kids and their journey to learn about all the shapes and sizes that make up our world 1973
There's a Wocket in My Pocket! A little boy talks about what strange creatures live in his house, such as the yeps on the steps, the nooth grush on his toothbrush, the yottle in the bottle and the jertain in the curtain. 1974
Great Day for Up! A book that teaches children that a new day starts a new adventure. 1974
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! This book talks about the many amazing 'thinks' you can think and the endless possibilities and dreams that imagination can create. 1975
The Cat's Quizzer The Cat in the Hat asks many, sometimes ridiculous, questions to the reader. 1976
I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! In this book the Cat in the Hat shows a Young Cat the fun he can get out of reading. Also shows the reader that reading is a useful tool to aquire knowledge. 1978
Oh Say Can You Say? This book is a book of 25 tongue-twisters. "Oh my brothers! Oh my sisters! These are Terrible Tongue Twisters!" 1979
Hunches in Bunches A boy is approached by numerous strange creatures with enormous gloved hats on their heads. Each "hunch" points out a different possible course of action with some even contradicting themselves. 1982
File:0394865804.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg The Butter Battle Book The conflict between the Yooks and the Zooks, leads to an arms race, each competing to make bigger and better weapons to outdo the other, which results in the threat of mutual assured destruction. Shows the reader that war can just end up in a big never ending circle where everyone is a looser. 1984
You're Only Old Once! : A Book for Obsolete Children This book is about an old man's journey through a clinic. The book satirizes the inefficiency of clinics. 1986
I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! A lazy boy who decides to stay in bed despite media coverage and the arrival of the U.S. Marines. 1987
Oh, the Places You'll Go! The last book published before Dr. Seuss' death. This book concerns life and its challenges. 1990

Posthumous

Geisel, also wrote three books that were posthumously published under his most recognizable Pen name, Dr. Seuss.

Title Synopsis Notes Original publication year
Daisy-Head Mayzie The book is about a schoolgirl named Mayzie who one day suddenly sprouts a bright yellow daisy from her head. This makes her famous and start to miss her normal life. Not illustrated by Geisel 1995
Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! The story surrounds a school that is well-liked by its students notably because of its many eccentric teachers. Expanded and completed by Jack Prelutsky and illustrated by Lane Smith 1998
My Many Colored Days A rhyming story, with describes each day in terms of a particular color which is in turn associated with a specific emotion. Paintings by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher 1996

Theo. LeSieg and Rosetta Stone

Geisel, also authored several books under the pen name Theo. LeSieg, and one book under the name Rosetta Stone. These books were written but not illustrated by Dr Seuss.

Title Synopsis Illustrator Original publication year
Ten Apples Up on Top!
As Theo. LeSieg 		a book about three animals a lion a dog and a tiger who consistently pile apples on their heads for fun. Roy McKie 1961
I Wish That I Had Duck Feet
As Theo. LeSieg 		A boy wishes that he could have many different animal and mechanical body parts, finding fantastic uses for each. B Tobey 1965
Come over to My House
As Theo. LeSieg 		The illustrations of this book portray the various styles of homes that kids from around the world. Richard Erdoes 1966
The Eye Book
As Theo. LeSieg 		Joe Mathieu / Roy McKie 1968
I Can Write
As Theo. LeSieg 		Roy McKie 1971
In a People House
As Theo. LeSieg 		A mouse shows a bird all the amazing things you can find in the everyday home. Roy McKie 1972
Wacky Wednesday
As Theo. LeSieg 		Shows the adventures of a kid and how he learns to cope with an abnormal day. Ends up being a dream in the end. George Booth 1974
The Many Mice of Mr. Brice
As Theo. LeSieg 		Roy McKie 1974
Would You Rather Be a Bullfrog?
As Theo. LeSieg 		Roy McKie 1975
Hooper Humperdink...? Not Him!
As Theo. LeSieg 		Charles E. Martin 1976
Please Try to Remember the First of Octember!
As Theo. LeSieg 		Art Cummings 1977
Maybe You Should Fly a Jet! Maybe You Should Be a Vet!
Theo. LeSieg 		Exposes kids to many different types of careers. Michael J. Smollin 1980
The Tooth Book
As Theo. LeSieg 		Joe Mathieu / Roy McKie 1981
Because a Little Bug Went Ka-choo!
As Rosetta Stone 		A bug sneezes, which sets off a series of larger and larger consequences, in the end nearly sending a whole town into chaos. Michael Frith 1975

References

  1. ^ "Seussville: Biography". Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. Retrieved 2008-08-11.
  2. ^ Debbie Hochman Turvey (2001-12-17). "All-Time Bestselling Children's Books". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
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