Dr. Seuss was born 116 years ago on this day of March the 2nd. I have paid homage to his day of birth in prior posts here on Blogger and I've also referenced several of Seuss's quotations within a number of my blog entries, all of this can be referred to by clicking here.
In any event, on this day of Seuss's birth, I find myself thinking about his first book, which was titled, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (the book featured in the image atop this posting) and something I've addressed in prior posts here on Blogger.
According to a number of sources, including Wikipedia, "At least 20 publishers rejected the book before Geisel ran into an old college classmate, who had just become juvenile editor at Vanguard Press. Vanguard agreed to publish the book, and it met with high praise from critics upon release, though sales were not as impressive."
Knowing this fact re Seuss's initial experiences with And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, has been somewhat helpful in my consoling Cam (the cardinal pictured below who is now a published author), whenever she is ready to throw up her wings in despair (as seen below where she is expressing her feelings from the floor of my urban garden) regarding how things are, or are not, progressing with her book three volume series, Words In Our Beak.
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| Image Featured in Volume One |
Her book series can be seen in the next photograph.
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| WORDS IN OUR BEAK BOOK SERIES |
I'm also thinking about the fact that this past November I saw two different character balloons in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade that were rendered in the likeness of characters from two of Seuss's books. One ballon was based on Green Eggs and Ham.
The image directly below features their Green Eggs and Ham balloon attempting to stay way above the NYPD as well as the crowds which was difficult to do because of the high winds!
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, another Seuss character, was also rendered into a Macy's ballon as seen in the next set of photographs (respectively).
The first image in the series directly above was taken by yours truly the night before the annual parade when Macy's blows up their character balloons.
As for the second and third images, they were taken by my sister who was in NYC with her son and went with me to the parade.
Cam, a female cardinal who is the protagonist in my aforementioned book series, aspires to be a character balloon in this venue, but for now she will have to settle for having her pictures featured within a couple of my collections (one and two) on Fine Art America AKA FAA (some examples seen in the following pictures but there are far more on to view on FAA).
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| AVAILABLE ON FINE ART AMERICA |
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| AVAILABLE ON FINE ART AMERICA |
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| AVAILABLE ON FINE ART AMERICA |
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| AVAILABLE ON FINE ART AMERICA |
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| AVAILABLE ON FINE ART AMERICA |
Cam and I are inspired by Dr. Seuss's tenacity as well as his creativity and we can only hope that one day we will be able to touch the hearts and minds of others as he has done.
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