What nationality was Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, children's author and creator of the Grinch?
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Grinch The Grinch is a fictional character created by Dr. Seuss. He is best known as the main character of the children's book "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" (1957).
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Dr. Seuss Theodor Seuss Geisel ( ; March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) was an American author, political cartoonist, poet, animator, book publisher, and artist, best known for authoring children's books under the pen name Dr. Seuss ( ). His work includes several 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.
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Little Nemo Little Nemo is a fictional character created by American cartoonist Winsor McCay.
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Professor Branestawm Professor Branestawm is a series of thirteen books written by the English author Norman Hunter. Written over a 50-year period, between 1933 and 1983, the children's books feature as protagonist the eponymous inventor, Professor Theophilus Branestawm, who is depicted throughout the books as the archetypal absent-minded professor. The name "Branestawm" is a pun, as a homophone of the word "brainstorm".
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Tintin and the World of Hergé Tintin and the World of Hergé: An Illustrated History, also known as Tintin and the World of Hergé (French: Le monde d'Hergé ), is a book by Benoit Peeters chronicling the illustrated history of Belgian cartoonist Hergé and his creation "The Adventures of Tintin".
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Mulberry Street (Springfield, Massachusetts) Mulberry Street ( ) is a historic street and tourist destination in Springfield, Massachusetts. Made famous by Dr. Seuss' first children's book "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street", the street is less than one mile from Springfield's Metro Center neighborhood, the Springfield Armory, and the Quadrangle. It is also less than one mile southwest of Dr. Seuss' boyhood home on Fairfield Street.
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Seussical Seussical is a musical by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty based on the stories of Dr. Seuss (mainly "Horton Hears a Who!", "Horton Hatches the Egg" and "Miss Gertrude McFuzz") that debuted on Broadway in 2000. The play's story is a complex amalgamation of many of Seuss's most famous books. After a Broadway run, the production spawned two US national tours and a UK tour. It has become a beloved classic for schools, communities, and regional theatres.
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Marion Holland Marion Holland (July 17, 1908 – April 6, 1989) was an American children’s book writer and illustrator from Washington, DC. Holland’s best-known books were "A Big Ball of String"; "No Children, No Pets"; "Billy Had a System"; and "The Secret Horse." "A Big Ball of String" (1958), which sold more than a million copies, was one of the six original Beginner Books published by Random House, along with "The Cat in the Hat" by Dr. Seuss.
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Winnie the Pooh (comic strip) Winnie the Pooh is a comic strip based on the characters created by A.A. Milne in his 1920s books, which ran from June 19, 1978, until April 2, 1988.
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Carl E. Schultze Carl Emil Schultze (May 25, 1866 – January 18, 1939) was an American newspaper cartoonist best known for his popular "Foxy Grandpa" comic strip series. He drew the strip under the pseudonym Bunny, his childhood nickname. The "Bunny" signature was usually accompanied by a drawing of a rabbit.
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Otfried Preußler Otfried Preußler (sometimes spelled as Otfried Preussler) (20 October 1923 – 18 February 2013) was a German children's books author. More than 50 million copies of his books have been sold worldwide and they have been translated into 55 languages. His best-known works are "The Robber Hotzenplotz" and "The Satanic Mill" ("Krabat").
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Sven Nordqvist Sven Otto Rickard Nordqvist (born 30 April 1946) is a Swedish writer and illustrator of children's books, best known for his series Pettson and Findus, about the old farmer Pettson and his talented cat Findus.
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Pinocchio Pinocchio ( ; ] ), the name a variant of common "pinolo" ("pine seed"), or "pine's eye" ("occhio", the Italian word for eye), is a fictional character and the protagonist of the children's novel "The Adventures of Pinocchio" (1883) by Italian writer Carlo Collodi. Carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a village near Florence, he was created as a wooden puppet but dreamed of becoming a real boy. He lies often.
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George Smiley George Smiley OBE is a fictional character created by John le Carré. Smiley is a career intelligence officer with "The Circus", the British overseas intelligence agency. He is a central character in the novels "Call for the Dead", "A Murder of Quality", "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", "The Honourable Schoolboy", and "Smiley's People", and a supporting character in "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold", "The Looking Glass War", "The Secret Pilgrim" and "A Legacy of Spies".
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Erich Hackl Erich Hackl (born 26 May 1954 in Steyr, Upper Austria) is an Austrian novelist and short-story writer. His works have been translated into English, Spanish, French and Czech, though he is significantly better known in the German-speaking world. Many of his works, notably "Sara und Simón", bear resemblance to Latin-American testimonial literature, and as such have been the focus of scholarly research by Latin Americanists.
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Garden gnome Garden gnomes (German: "Gartenzwerge" , 'garden dwarfs' ) are lawn ornament figurines of small humanoid creatures known as gnomes that are typically males wearing red pointy hats. First created in 19th-century Germany, garden gnomes spread to other countries in Europe in the 1840s and became particularly popular in France and Britain. The term "garden gnome" may originate from the term "Gnomen-Figuren" (miniature figurines), used in the original German catalogues. They had a resurgence in popularity in the 1930s after Disney's animated film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", and were revived again in the 1970s.
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Dr. Seuss: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Dr. Seuss: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! is a video game based on the Dr. Seuss book with the same name, but mostly based on the film. The game was released on November 8, 2007.
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The Pocket Book of Boners The Pocket Book of Boners is a book illustrated by Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), originally published as four separate books in 1931–32 by The Viking Press. In 1941, Readers' League of America compiled these four books and published the "Pocket Book of Boners". It was one of the bestselling paperback books of World War II, with 1.34 million copies in print by 1945.
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Friedrich Theodor Vischer Friedrich Theodor Vischer (] ; 30 June 1807 – 14 September 1887) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, and writer on the philosophy of art. Today, he is mainly remembered as the author of the novel "", in which he developed the concept of "Die Tücke des Objekts" (the spite of objects), a comic theory that inanimate objects conspire against humans.
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Timothy Mason (playwright) Timothy Peter Mason (born February 14, 1950) is an American playwright. He has written a number of plays including the book and lyrics for the Broadway musical, "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!’’
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Cheshire Cat The Cheshire Cat ( or ) is a fictional cat popularised by Lewis Carroll in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and known for its distinctive mischievous grin. While most often celebrated in "Alice"-related contexts, the Cheshire Cat predates the 1865 novel and has transcended the context of literature and become enmeshed in popular culture, appearing in various forms of media, from political cartoons to television, as well as cross-disciplinary studies, from business to science. One of its distinguishing features is that from time to time its body disappears, the last thing visible being its iconic grin.
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Tabaluga Tabaluga is a media franchise featuring a fictional little green Dragon of the same name, created by German Rock musician Peter Maffay, children's songwriter and the author . The artist Helme Heine drew the image of Tabaluga as it is currently known. The character Tabaluga was first introduced by Peter Maffay in a musical fairy tale "Tabaluga ... oder die Reise zur Vernunft" (Tabaluga or... The Journey to Reason) in 1983. This first studio album was the step to success: within the next years some Helme Heine books, four sequel concept studio albums, two resounding tours, a stage musical, "Tabaluga und Lilli" ("Tabaluga and Lilli"), based on the third concept album and many TV Cartoons which have been broadcasting in over 100 countries round the world followed and a children's game show. Over 100 kindergartens and child care groups carry the word "Tabaluga" in their names.