An Ode to Dr. Seuss and His Incredible Creatures

It's Wednesday, March 2
And we must relay the news
That today's the birthday
Of the great Dr. Seuss.

From Horton and Yertle
To Biffer-Baum Birds,
He's delighted us all
With his characters and words.

So on this special day
In this silly feature
We'll honor him and amuse you
With our favorite Seussian creatures.

The most famous of his creature brood, The Cat in the Hat makes mischief for a couple of children home alone.

The Cat in the Hat unleashes Thing One and Thing Two to create mayhem on a day when it was too wet to play.

It wasn't until reading One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish that I learned about a seven-hump Wump and an illiterate cooking Nook.

In Horton Hears a Who!, a gentle giant uses his big elephant ears to listen to the tiny people of Whoville, teaching us that "a person's a person, no matter how small."

Max the dog reluctantly impersonates Santa's reindeer in the Grinch's dastardly anti-Christmas scheme against Whoville in How the Grinch Stole Christmas!.

Hooey the bookwormy parrot warns readers of this read's lip-flipping follies at the start of Oh Say Can You Say? but who can resist phrases like, "Skipper Zipp’s Clipper Ship Chip Chop Shop"?

All it takes is a small bug by the name of Van Vleck to spread yawns throughout the land in Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book.

Fox and his socks along with Knox in a box lead us on a trek through tortuous tongue twisters in Fox in Socks.

Ever since There's a Wocket in My Pocket! I've been particularly cautious of wosets in the closet and yottles in bottles.

And our childhoods wouldn't be complete without the Truffula Tree-loving main character of The Lorax, now an animated film opening in theaters today.