Comments on: Happy Belated Birthday, Dr. Seuss! http://theirrepressiblewriter.com/2010/03/03/happy-belated-birthday-dr-seuss/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Helping you build and maintain resilience for your writing...and your life. Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:30:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Carol Grannick http://theirrepressiblewriter.com/2010/03/03/happy-belated-birthday-dr-seuss/comment-page-1/#comment-150 Carol Grannick Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:31:28 +0000 http://theirrepressiblewriter.com/?p=704#comment-150 Oh, yes, those boxcars, Paul - how I wanted one of my own! And for a long time in Chicago, just outside "The Loop" downtown, there was a boxcar restaurant. Every time I drove by, those childhood yearnings got stirred... Oh, yes, those boxcars, Paul – how I wanted one of my own! And for a long time in Chicago, just outside “The Loop” downtown, there was a boxcar restaurant. Every time I drove by, those childhood yearnings got stirred…

]]> By: Paul Greci http://theirrepressiblewriter.com/2010/03/03/happy-belated-birthday-dr-seuss/comment-page-1/#comment-148 Paul Greci Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:45:40 +0000 http://theirrepressiblewriter.com/?p=704#comment-148 Dr. Suess helped shape my creativity in my early twenties. I worked at an environmental Ed. center and we performed The Lorax as a play twice a week. A few years later at another Environmental Ed. center I'd recite the entire book at campfires. Dr. Suess really did help spark my storytelling. When I was a young child the first non-picture book I remember loving was The Boxcar Children. I thought it was so cool that these kids could live in a boxcar on their own. Dr. Suess helped shape my creativity in my early twenties. I worked at an environmental Ed. center and we performed The Lorax as a play twice a week. A few years later at another Environmental Ed. center I’d recite the entire book at campfires. Dr. Suess really did help spark my storytelling.

When I was a young child the first non-picture book I remember loving was The Boxcar Children. I thought it was so cool that these kids could live in a boxcar on their own.

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