Dick and Jane phenomenon
Baby Sally - See Spot Run!
Think-and-Do Book leads the way
We Look and See
We Come and Go
We Work and Play
Until Dr. Seuss's smash-hit breakaway...
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Poetry notes:
6/13/2019
"DR. SEUSS BRAGGED ABOUT HELPING TO KILL OFF DICK AND JANE.
"William Spaulding—who headed the educational division at Houghton Mifflin publishing—challenged Theodore Seuss Geisel to write "a story that first-graders can't put down." Geisel responded with The Cat in the Hat—his first smash-hit. Children's literature hasn't looked back since. "I have great pride in taking Dick and Jane out of most school libraries," he subsequently said. "That is my greatest satisfaction." --mentalfloss.com
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