MIKE GRACIA

Hans Christian Andersen (April 2, 1805 – August 4, 1875)

The Cat in the Hat is a 1957 children’s book written and illustrated
by the American author Theodore Geisel, using the pen name Dr.
Seuss.

The book was met with immediate critical and commercial success.

Three years after its debut, the book had already sold over a million
copies, and in 2001, Publishers Weekly listed the book at number
nine on its list of best-selling children’s books of all time. It was
adapted into a 1971 animated television special and a 2003 live-
action film.

Theodor Seuss “Ted” Geisel
(March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991)

TIM MAGUIRE

Dick and Jane are the two main characters created by Zerna Sharp
for a series of basal readers written by William S. Gray to teach
children to read. The characters first appeared in the Elson-Gray
Readers in 1930 and continued in a subsequent series of books
through the final version in 1965. These readers were used in
classrooms in the United States and in other English-speaking
countries for nearly four decades, reaching the height of their
popularity in the 1950s, when 80 percent of first-grade students
in the United States used them.

CAMILLE BOHANNON

1945

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