Happy birthday Dr Seuss!

Happy birthday Dr Seuss!
Image: Rafael, Talita, Mercedes and Claudia celebrate Dr Seuss. Photo: Chris Peken

A ‘Seusstastic Week of Fun’ will grace the Waverley Children’s Library to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Theodore Seuss Geisel, better known as famed children’s author Dr Seuss.

The library will hold a series of activities throughout the week including arts and crafts, a DIY Cat in the Hat photobooth and an interactive poetry wall encouraging children to make their own rhymes. A family movie night on Friday 28 February will screen The Lorax, a movie inspired by the Seuss book of the same name, along with free popcorn.

The great Seusstastic Party Carnival will be on Sunday 2 March, the date of Seuss’ birth in 1904. The Carnival will feature face painting, a treasure hunt and jumping castle as well as a special birthday cake.

Waverley Library public programs officer Iona Uzell said they chose to celebrate the Seuss anniversary because of the author’s prolific literary status and popularity among young readers.

“Dr Seuss is recognised as a good foundational start to reading,” she said. “He published more than 46 books in total and they have repetition, rhyme and off-the-wall stories filled with creativity.”

The Seusstastic Week, with a different Seuss reading each afternoon, complements the existing library programs including ‘Book Babies’ and ‘Tales for Tykes’ which encourage parents to promote reading with their children.

Aunty to Mercedes, Kristy Mittelstadt, said her niece is often happy to sit down and read by herself.

“I’m a huge fan of Dr Seuss books myself, when she’s a little older I’ll read them to her,” she said.

Myra Sacks-Kofsky said her great-grandchild Claudia loves all books.

“We read to her all the time,” she said. “Some books she knows off by heart.”

The Seusstastic Week is February 24 to March 2 at Waverley Children’s Library.

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