On March 2, 1904, Theodor Seuss Geisel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He would later publish 46 children's books, most under the pen name, Dr. Seuss, and become a household name and children's hero. This year, his classic, "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street," celebrates its 75th anniversary. Although Mulberry Street won acclaim (it was honored with the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award), this story of a boy's routine walk home from school being transformed, entirely by his imagination, rarely is considered in the top five best picks. However, Mulberry Street is one of my favorites and is one of the first books we read to the girls as infants.
Happy birthday to our beloved Dr. Seuss. Read to your children today. Encourage your older children to read, and may you all read "Mulberry Street".
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