Day Four of Seven…

 Dr. Seuss Quotes of the Day” 

“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.”

I use the above quote to justify being a hermit….don’t you judge me!

Seuss Fact:
Ted Seuss Geisel was no stranger to political commentary, before and during his children’s book career, and actually said Yertle the Turtle was a representation of Hitler. Despite the political nature of the book, none of that was disputed at Random House — what was disputed was Mack’s, the turtle at the bottom of the stack) burp. No one had ever let a burp loose in a children’s book before, so it was a little dicey. In the end, obviously, Mack burped, and Yertle/Hitler’s reign was over.

                                            -Yertle the Turtle
                                            ballpoint pen on paper

HAPPY HUMP DAY!! Well, at least hump day concerning these the Seven Days of Seuss. We have hit the midway point, and all three of the winnable (is that even a word?) drawings have already been posted. I will post all three together again this evening with the instructions. Many of you have guessed the drawings from Day 1 and Day 3, but Day 2 seems to have the most folks stumped. For those of you who have incorrect guesses (and yes, if you send me your guess, I WILL write back telling you whether it’s correct or not) or have yet to guess at all…there is still time left. I will accept any entries up to noon on Tuesday the 2nd of March….that’s Mountain Time….carry the one and multiply by the remainder….hold the onions…..something something……and scene!

Day Three of Seven…

 Dr. Seuss Quotes of the Day” 

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.”

Quite possibly my favorite Seuss quote.

Seuss Fact:
The book, The Lorax, used to contain the line, “I hear things are just as bad up in Lake Erie,” but 14 years after the book was published, the Ohio Sea Grant Program wrote to Seuss creator Theodore Geisel, and told him how much the conditions had improved and implored him to take the line out. He agreed and said that it wouldn’t be in future editions.

                                         -the Lorax
                                         ballpoint pen on paper

And welcome to the third day of seven for Dr. Seuss! Today’s little tribute is obviously the Lorax, so those of you who have been using the Lorax as your guesses for yesterday’s drawing, you now know to guess again. That’s as much of a hint as I’m going to give at this point….I told you these were going to get more difficult….which brings us to today’s challenge, and the last of the contest three. I will make a post of all three drawings together tomorrow for everyone to continue guessing on, and again, Good Luck!

HERE’S THE RULES: The contest ends on March 2nd, so you have until then to guess the above character. You can guess as many times as you need…that is, if you realize that your first guess was wrong, you are allowed to guess again to make up for it, and so on. You can give your guesses to me either by commenting on this post (the comments have to be approved by myself, so they won’t be seen by anyone else) or by messaging me from my Facebook profile. DO NOT post it on my profile’s wall for everyone to see! Doing so will disqualify you from the contest…for real and stuffs.
Please include your email with your guesses so that I can contact you in the event of your winning one of the three drawings.

Day Two of Seven

 Dr. Seuss Quotes of the Day” 

“If you never did, you should. These things are fun, and fun is good.”

Seuss Fact:
It’s has been suspected that “Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!” was written by Dr. Seuss specifically about Richard Nixon, although he never admitted to that claim. The book came out only two months after the whole Watergate scandal, making it unlikely that the book could have been conceived of, written, edited and mass produced in such a short time. In 1974, he sent a copy of Marvin K. Mooney to his friend Art Buchwald at the Washington Post. In it, he crossed out “Marvin K. Mooney” and replaced it with “Richard M. Nixon,” which Buchwald reprinted in its entirety.

                                            -Marvin K. Mooney
                                            ballpoint pen on paper

Good morning folks! Welcome to this, the second day of seven for Dr. Seuss! Today I share with you my drawing of Mr. Marvin K. Mooney, another one of my favorites…and since I gave the explanation in yesterday’s post about how this week was going to pan out let’s get right to the second drawing for you folks to guess. First, congrats to many of you who have already guessed yesterday’s character, you all make me proud! For those of you who haven’t guessed it yet, don’t worry…you still have 6 days to figure it out. Now, the last two are going to get considerably more difficult, so Good Luck!

HERE’S THE RULES: The contest ends on March 2nd, so you have until then to guess the above character. You can guess as many times as you need…that is, if you realize that your first guess was wrong, you are allowed to guess again to make up for it, and so on. You can give your guesses to me either by commenting on this post (the comments have to be approved by myself, so they won’t be seen by anyone else) or by messaging me from my Facebook profile. DO NOT post it on my profile’s wall for everyone to see! Doing so will disqualify you from the contest…for real and stuffs.
Please include your email with your guesses so that I can contact you in the event of your winning one of the three drawings.

…Good Luck!!

Day One of Seven…

Dr. Seuss Quotes of the Day”
”Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”

Seuss Fact:
The Cat in the Hat was created when Williams Spaulding (publisher) commissioned Dr. Seuss to write a children’s book that was along the lines of the popular “Dick and Jane” books, encouraging children to read. The catch was that he was only allowed to use 225 words from a list of 400. He decided that if he could find two words from the list that rhymed, they would become the book’s title and subject. Thus, The Cat in the Hat was born, but still took over nine months to complete.

-the Cat in the Hat
ballpoint pen on paper

Good morning folks! Today is the first day of the Seven as I have promised, and what better character to start it off with than The Cat in the Hat? As you can now see, this is what I had in mind as my tribute to one of my favorite authors. I have done a different one for every day of this week.
Now, the above is obviously not part of the contest that I mentioned before…if for no better reason than I have already given you the answer to who this drawing is supposed to be….and having been given the answer, if you found yourself still having difficulties placing the Cat, well then, you probably will not fair all that well in the contest and the rest of us will be forced to laugh at you.

But that’s just it…not the “laughing at you” part, the “guessing the Seuss Character” part. I have done three additional drawings for this week, all of which are what I consider to be more obscure characters from the pages of his books. I will post them here, one today, one tomorrow and the final one the day after that. Your job is to figure out who they are. That’s all there is to it. All correct answers will be used in a drawing of one who will win the drawing in question….so let’s get on to the first of the three:

HERE’S THE RULES: The contest ends on March 2nd, so you have until then to guess the above character. You can guess as many times as you need…that is, if you realize that your first guess was wrong, you are allowed to guess again to make up for it, and so on. You can give your guesses to me either by commenting on this post (the comments have to be approved by myself, so they won’t be seen by anyone else) or by messaging me from my Facebook profile. DO NOT post it on my profile’s wall for everyone to see! Doing so will disqualify you from the contest…for real and stuffs.
Please include your email with your guesses so that I can contact you in the event of your winning one of the three drawings.

….and that’s how it’ll be. Good Luck!!

Oh the Thinks You Can Think…

March 2nd is the birthday of one of my favorite authors and biggest influences….can you guess who that might be? There is a hint hidden somewhere in this post.

Here's the deal: Starting on Feb. 23rd I will be posting a drawing every day honoring Mr. Geisel on my Crumbly Nevertheless blog (ok…..as well as on here), leading up to his birthday. Each drawing will be my take on one of his characters, with all due respects.
Here's the contest part: Also on the 23rd, I will post three additional drawings, these being of his more obscure characters. These three drawings can be won by those who can guess who they are and what books they are from. The details will be given when the drawings are posted.
So get your Seuss knowledge up to date, sign up to be notified as the contest starts and good luck!