Dr. Seuss Birthday Bash planned for March 8

Kelly Walter, program director at the Herr Memorial Library, donned a Cat in the Hat hat to read stories during last year's Dr. Seuss Birthday Bash.

    The Herr Memorial Library in Mifflinburg will host a celebration of Dr. Seuss’s birthday beginning at 2 p.m. on Sat., March 8. The family event will include Seuss stories, activities, and birthday cake.
    Theodor “Ted” Seuss Geisel was born in 1904, in Springfield, Massachusetts.  He loved rhymes as a child and went to Oxford University in England thinking that he would become a professor. Instead, he became a cartoonist and illustrator.
    While crossing the Atlantic Ocean on a luxury liner, Geisel decided to use the rhythm of the ship’s engines along with a simple rhyming story to come up with his first children’s book “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.”  It was published under the penname “Dr. Seuss.”
    Later Geisel got an assignment to write a children’s story using 220 new-reader vocabulary words, and he came up with the book that nearly everyone knows, “The Cat in the Hat.”
    Geisel died on September 21, 1991, but Dr. Seuss lives on in his many colorful books, loved by children and adults alike.
    Register to attend the Dr. Seuss Birthday Bash either by visiting the library at 500 Market Street, by e-mailing herr@herrlibrary.org, or by calling 966-0831.