‘Thank you! Thank you, Sam-I-am!’
March 2 – Read Across America day; 111th birthday of Dr. Seuss
Elementary students across America – as well as in Mountain Lake and Butterfield-Odin schools – celebrated Read Across America on Monday, March 2 – a day coordinated to be held as the same day as the birthday of Dr. Seuss.
The Read Across America event encourages children to keep reading and learning. It was estimated that more than 45 million readers throughout the country – both young and old – picked up a book and read.
Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer and cartoonist. He was most widely known for his children’s books, which he wrote and illustrated under the pseudonym Dr. Seuss. Some of this book characters include The Cat in the Hat, The Grinch, The Lorax, Thing #1, Thing #2, Horton The Elephant, Fox in Socks, The Hunches, Marvin K. Mooney, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, Bartholomew Cubbins, The Sneetches, Thidwick The Good-Hearted Moose and Yertle The Turtle. He was born on March 2, 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts. He would have been 111 years old if he was still alive. Dr. Seuss passed away on September 24, 1991 in La Jolla, San Diego, California, at at the age of 87.
From the Dr. Seuss title, “Green Eggs and Ham:”
. . . I do not like green eggs and ham! I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
You do not like them. SO you say. Try them! Try them! And you may. Try them and you may I say.
Sam! If you will let me be, I will try them. You will see.
Say! I like green eggs and ham! I do! I like them, Sam-I-am! And I would eat them in a boat! And I would eat them with a goat . . . And I will eat them in the rain. And in the dark. And on a train. And in a car. And in a tree.
They are so good, so good, you see! So I will eat them in a box. And I will eat them with a fox. And I will eat them in a house. And I will eat them with a mouse. And I will eat them here and there. Say! I will eat them ANHYWHERE!
I do so like green eggs and ham! Thank you! Thank you, Sam-I-am!
