Happy Birthday to Dr. Seuss!
Theodor Seuss Geisel born March 2, 1904.
March22012
January302012
A few days ago, you got an email about our petition asking Universal Pictures to change their Lorax movie website to be more green. This was important to us because when we grow up we will really want a healthy planet, so we worked hard to change the world.
This week we found out we did it! Woo hoo! Now visitors will see a gruvvulous “Go Green” Truffula tuft button that Universal put on their big website — the button links to a whole page of tips about how to help the environment. You, yes you, and 57,238 others helped us put it there by signing our petition.
We are so proud! Some adults say they’re role models for kids, but we think we’re being role models for adults. We are also proud because so many of you helped us. Even though we might be little we can still make a lot of change in anything we work hard at.
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To wrap up, we’d just like to say:
Thank you so much for all your support.
We needed Universal to be a good sport.
We are the changers, the changers that say,
“Thank you so much on this glorious day!
You helped us a ton,” we needed to say,
“We couldn’t have done it any other way.”
Sincerely,
- Ollie, Lanie, Georgia, Zoe, Jake, Alex, Jacob, Sophia, Ben, Miky, Jeffery, Camily, Vikrum, Lulu, Nicole, and Ted (aka Mr. Wells)
January242012
The students in Mr. Wells’ fourth grade class in Brookline, Massachusetts love The Lorax by Dr. Seuss. They love the story, and they especially love the book’s message that if we don’t start prioritizing the environment, the consequences will be disastrous.
So they were super excited to learn that Universal Studios made The Lorax into a blockbuster animated movie (it comes out in March on Dr. Seuss’ birthday).But when the kids went to the movie’s website, they were crestfallen to see it had no environmental education at all. Nothing about pollution, nothing about trees, just information on how to buy tickets.
“The website is more about making money than helping the planet, and that’s exactly what the book says not to do,” says Georgia, who is 10.
So Mr. Wells’ kids decided to take matters into their own hands — they started a petition on Change.org asking Universal to include environmental education on The Lorax movie website. Click here to sign their petition now.
“This movie can show the world we should not take our sky, water, trees, and animals for granted,” the kids say in their petition. “We’re encouraging Universal to make an improved Lorax movie website that Dr. Seuss would be proud of.”
For his part, Mr. Wells is pretty proud of his students already. “As a teacher, I want to help kids know they have a voice and that, like the Lorax, they should speak up and act if there’s a problem in their world,” he says.
If Universal executives see that their target audience feels strongly about the inclusion of environmental education in The Lorax website and other promotional materials, they’ll make it happen. Mr. Wells’ class asked that we include their favorite quote from The Lorax in this email: “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing’s going to get better, it’s not.”
Thanks for being a change-maker,
- Corinne and the Change.org team
April72011
Lost Dr. Seuss Book Set To Be Published
Ten years ago, Dr. Seuss’s art director Cathy Goldsmith was browsing through e-Bay, when she came upon magazine tear-sheets that purported to be stories from the superstar children’s book author.
The seller was a Massachusetts dentist named Charles Cohen, who was so enamored with the work of Theodor Seuss Geisel, as Dr. Seuss was really called, that his house was filled with Seuss things. Goldsmith bought the magazines and not only contracted Cohen to write the book The Seuss, The Whole Seuss, and Nothing But the Seuss, but it turned out the stories were really written by Dr. Seuss and during his golden years, no less. […]
March272011
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March42011
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October132010
Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children
Picture books are so unpopular these days at the Children’s Book Shop in Brookline, Mass., that employees there are used to placing new copies on the shelves, watching them languish and then returning them to the publisher.
“So many of them just die a sad little death, and we never see them again,” said Terri Schmitz, the owner.
The shop has plenty of company. The picture book, a mainstay of children’s literature with its lavish illustrations, cheerful colors and large print wrapped in a glossy jacket, has been fading. It is not going away — perennials like the Sendaks and Seusses still sell well — but publishers have scaled back the number of titles they have released in the last several years, and booksellers across the country say sales have been suffering.
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