When this Massachusetts writer read an article about the "pallid primers" featuring "abnormally courteous, unnaturally clean children" that kids learning to read found boring, he came up with an early reader in 1957 that featured wild misbehavior--subversive for that time. The book became the first of 17 books in the Random House series Beginner Books, which featured limited vocabulary but unlimited creativity, fun language and zany illustrations. This was Theodore Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss and that first book in the series was Cat in the Hat.
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