Creative or not, it's your call!

Who was this creative genius? The complete picture below reveals that we all know and love his work as the icon Dr. Suess.?

The facts about his amazing career and creativity speak for themselves. Theodor Seuss Geisel?was an American children's author and cartoonist. He is known for his work writing and illustrating?more than 60 books under the?pen name Dr. Seuss. His work includes many of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death in 1991 at the age of 87. We all have read (to our kids and maybe even ourselves many times) classics like If I Ran the Zoo, Horton Hears a Who!, The Cat in the Hat, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Green Eggs and Ham, One, Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, The Sneetches and Other Stories, The Lorax, The Butter Battle Book and Oh, the Places You'll Go.?

His works have spawned numerous?adaptations, including 11 television specials, five feature films,?a Broadway musical and four television series. Geisel won the?Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958 for?Horton Hatches the Egg?and again in 1961 for?And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. He received the Regina Medal award from the Catholic Library Association in 1982. Geisel's birthday, March 2, has been adopted as the annual date for?National Read Acros America Day, an initiative on reading created by the?National Education Association. ?

And to think all of this was done by a single man who didn’t hide or ever suppress his “weirdness” but used his unique gifts to better children’s literature and mankind forever.?I read that Geisel once said that “you have to be odd to be number one.” He certainly was that. One of the more astonishing facts I also learned in my research was that in 2000,?Publishers Weekly put together a list of the best-selling children’s books of all time. Of the top 100 hardcover books, 16 were written by Geisel! These include Green Eggs and Ham (#4), The Cat in the Hat (#9) and?One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish (#13).

I also was amazed to learn that he also wrote books for adults. His 1939 book that was reprinted in 1987 entitled “The Seven Lady Godivas” included nude depictions and he wrote “You’re Only Old Once” at the age of 82. He is truly an inspiration to me and millions of other parents and avid readers.

You might think at this juncture that Geisel is an exception to the rule of a person who embraced his creativity and succeeded beyond measure. There have been many other “Dr. Suess” stories of individuals who followed a similar such path by not worrying about being different or odd and were able to nurture their creativity. I believe similar story to Dr. Suess can be chronicled when we look at the life of the creator of the most famous mouse in the world.