436 The Lorax by Dr Seuss (with Mesh Lakhani)
The History of Literature
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Theodore Gesel, the Doctor, Fit Too
Sous was not a doctor, certainly not a medical one. He dropped out of college before receiving a degree and used his last name as a pseudonym in college to secretly work on the student humor magazine dartmouth jacko lantern. A single book by this author might easily be read a hundred times by a hundred different children. You could perform an experiment by trying to see how far you can read into a doctor sous book before you know that he's the author. But the truth is, you'll likely know even before you've read a word. The pictures on the cover will give it away.
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