Theodor Seuss Geisel

An entertaining introduction to the alphabet featuring such fantastic creatures as an ostrich oiling an orange owl and ten tired turtles on a tuttle-tuttle tree.

For decades, readers throughout the world have enjoyed the marvelous stories and illustrations of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. But few know the work Geisel did as a political cartoonist during World War II, for the New York daily newspaper PM. In these extraordinarily trenchant cartoons, Geisel presents "a provocative history of wartime politics" (Entertainment Weekly). Dr. Seuss Goes to War features handsome, large-format reproductions...

A boy imagines a series of incredible sights on his way home from school so that he will have an interesting report to give his father.

"Illustrator by day, surrealist by night, Ted Geisel created a body of previously little-known work during his leisure hours that he called his 'Midnight Paintings,' and which is now known as 'The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss.' This irrepressible and soulful collection redefines Ted Geisel as an iconic American artist. For sixty years, his 'Secret Art' allowed Geisel to expand his artistic boundaries without the confines and pressures of commercial deadlines...

Every afternoon fun-loving King Birtram raced around the palace on a pair of old red stilts. How the stilts were stolen and Eric the page boy got them back makes an uproarious tale.

Horton is a the lovable elephant who tries to protect tiny creatures on a speck of dust. It seems that he is the only one who can hear the tiny people of the tiny planet.

The Cat in the Hat plays quiz master by challenging the reader with both entertaining and educational questions such as "Are freckles catching?" and "How old do you have to be to drive a car?"

Flying the secret sky: In 1940, Nazi air strikes had Britain on its knees. The RAF was desperate for planes and their supply of U.S. aircraft, sent on ship convoys, had been sunk in the icy Atlantic by relentless German U-boats. In response, the U.S. launched a secret operation to fly the planes across the unforgiving ocean to England. On a wind and a prayer: Takes an in-depth look at the Japanese Fugo Balloon Bomb offensive and highlights its place...