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Probably everyone not in a third world country (and maybe a lot of them, too) has heard of Dr. Seuss and his books. But perhaps only a few of these people know that Dr. Seuss (whose real name was Theodor Geisel) and his wife pioneered the Beginner Books division of Random House Publishers, and that many of his books were written as better beginning reading books than the then current Dick and Jane series used by schools nationwide. These readers of Dr. Seuss' contained only the 223 words considered useable by beginning readers. Green Eggs and Ham includes only 50 words and was written when Bennett Cerf bet Ted $50 he couldn't write a book using only that number of words. Ted met the challenge, but then "complained" throughout his life that Cerf never paid him the $50.

By: Mary Lou Derksen

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