Splendiferous Stories of "Dr." Seuss

With sensational sales of 600 million copies, his books are without doubt immensely popular with children. With "nonsense" stories like Edward Lear & Lewis Carroll, he captured the hearts of children. In the middle of the 20th Century, "Life" magazine published a survey that American school children were largely illiterate because their textbooks were boring. So someone came up with the idea of providing books with a limited vocabulary & interesting themes. "Dr." Seuss took up the challenge & rose to the occasion & produced best sellers into the bargain & never looked back.

 The crowning glory was, the books of "Dr." Seuss, an American, were even used by the Bank of England, to train its employees (who obviously had not mastered Queen's English sufficiently) to write simple, comprehensible reports.

In this connection, it can be recalled that Sukumar Ray, father of the celebrated film director Satyajit Ray, was an accomplished writer of "nonsense" verse in Bengali, which has even been translated into English & published.