![]() Ted moved with his wife Helen Palmer Geisel, herself an author, to La Jolla, California in 1948 where he would live for the rest of his life. As Ted was walking down Madison Avenue in New York City and about to throw the book away, he ran into former Dartmouth classmate Mike McClintock, juvenile editor at Vanguard Press who published the book that was based on Ted’s childhood growing up in Springfield. Seuss’s first children’s book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street was published in 1937. After being rejected by publishers 27 times, Dr. Ted entered Dartmouth College in 1921, which was where he first began using the pseudonym “Seuss” while writing for Jack-O-Lantern, the college humor magazine. ![]() ![]() ![]() As a boy, Theodor, known as Ted by his family and friends, loved to walk through the Springfield Zoo and bring a pencil and sketch pad to draw animals. Theodor Seuss Geisel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on March 2, 1904. ![]()
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