This button from my personal collection I first shared on here in 2012. I don’t know where I got it.
I might have said before that though “Dr. Seuss” began publishing children’s books in my lifetime, I never read any of them that I recall until I was a young teenager and Lynne introduced me to them. It’s funny, because The Cat in the Hat was written by Theodor Seuss Geisel at the request of a publisher after there was public grumbling about how the Dick and Jane books children were reading in school didn’t encourage them to want to keep reading more books.
I was one of those children who read Dick and Jane books in school even after the Dr. Seuss books appeared, and while maybe they weren’t riveting characters or stories, I was thrilled any time I could read anything. Everyone in my family read, and it was frustrating for me that I couldn’t. I think I didn’t realize that everyone has to learn to read. I wanted to be able to do what David (eight years older) and Debby (five years older) did.
In 2013, I first posted about this mug gifted with hot chocolate from Debby and commented on how it made me think of The Cat in the Hat. It still does, but the other day when I pulled it down, it also made me think of Eddie Van Halen backstage at a 1981 concert (especially because of the green shoes).
But hey, Elton John sported the look in 1972, which predated my own socks, seen below, hanging behind our Charlie Brown tree in the Tuscaloosa house on Twelfth Avenue when I was a college sophomore.
Not to be overlooked are these sock dresses I made for my Top Models.
Our lives are full of recurring themes and patterns, and apparently in my case, the appeal of red and white stripes.
If a guy rang my doorbell dressed like that Eddie Van Halen, those stripes would either make me think Cat in the Hat or Candy Cane. Stripes? What stripes?
Delicious!
I don’t recall reading any Dr Seuss books when I was at school.
Do you know if there’s a tradition there of giving copies of Oh, the Places You’ll Go when people finish any level of school, from kindergarten to college? It’s the last of his books published in his lifetime, and I was working in the bookstore when it came out. It flew off the shelves and still does each spring at graduation time.