Virgina Garrett

"The more that you read, the more things you will know.  The more you learn, the more places you'll go."
-Dr. Seuss

Quote from his book: "I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!"


The Giving Tree, considered to be one of the top 10 greatest children's books of all time, took awhile to be published because it appeals to many levels of readers made most publishers categorized it as being "too sad." 



The inspirational diary of this teenaged Dutch girl written during the Nazi occupation has been translated into more than 60 languages.

Through the course of the book, the time on the clocks changes from 7:00 p.m. to 8:10 p.m.

The mouse can be found on every page that shows the room.

The book on the bedside table is Goodnight Moon.

The open book on the shelf is The Runaway Bunny and the painting of the fishing bunny is very similar to a picture in The Runaway Bunny.

The red balloon disappears and reappears at the end of the book.

On the last page of the book, the mouse has eaten the mush.

Did you know...

American novelist Mark Twain was the first known author to submit a typed manuscript.















Alice in Wonderland used to be banned in parts of China. “Bears, lions and other beasts cannot use a human language,” said General Ho Chien in 1931. “To attribute to them such a power is an insult to the human race.”



The Very Hungry Caterpillar was almost called A Week With Willi Worm.


One of the reasons Dr. Seuss wrote was in response to the mind-numbing dullness of Dick and Jane and their mundane lives that consisted mostly of watching Spot run. The director of the education division at Houghton Mifflin challenged Seuss to come up with a story children would actually want to read using some of the same basic words used in Dick and Jane. “At first I thought it was impossible and ridiculous,” Seuss later said. “I was about to get out of the whole thing; then decided to look at the list one more time and to use the first two words that rhymed as the title of the book – cat and hat were the ones my eyes lighted on.”



Good Resource:
International Children's Digital Library
http://en.childrenslibrary.org/



FUN FACTS ABOUT THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

'Bookkeeper' is the only word which has 3 consecutive double letters.
'Town' is the oldest word in the English language.
There are no words that rhyme with 'month', 'orange', 'silver' and 'purple'.
E is the most used letter while Q is the least used of all the letters in the English alphabet.