Yesterday, a United States postage stamp was issued to honor Dr. Seuss. Today, a statue is being erected in his home town, at the University of California, San Diego Geisel Library. On March 11th, Theodor Seuss Giesel, aka Dr. Seuss, will get a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

Yesterday, the New York Times wrote:

It's all part of a bicoastal celebration of the centennial of Theodor Geisel, best known as Dr. Seuss, the man responsible for the Grinch, the Cat in the Hat and the Lorax, among other unforgettable creatures.

Today, the Geisel Library, unveils a bronze statue showing "Ted sitting at his desk, one of his legs plopped on its top with `The Cat in the Hat' standing behind him," his wife, Audrey, said. "It's perfect because that man never had both feet on the ground. One leg represents reality, the other his imagination."

Geisel died in 1991, at 87, after a life that traded in the imagination. Son of a zookeeper father, Theodor Geisel was born on March 2, 1904, in the factory town of Springfield, Mass. At an early age he began to draw animals, often adding an extra hump in a camel's back or a long snout on a hyena's face for comic effect. While attending Dartmouth College he edited Jack O'Lantern, a humor magazine. But it was his Latin classes that had the most enduring influence on his future art. "It allows you to adore words," Geisel once said about Latin, "take them apart and find out where they came from."

Exhibitions featuring the work of Theodor Seuss Geisel are being shown in Geisel Library throughout the year.

Currently on display until March 27 is "The Dr. Seuss You Never Knew," a collection of work from his school days at Dartmouth and Oxford, advertising and magazine work from the 1920's and 30's, World War II cartoons for P.M. magazine and work for the U.S. Army.

Most of his original work is included in the extensive Dr. Seuss Collection at UCSD’s Geisel Library. The approximately 8,500 items in the collection document the full range of Geisel’s creative achievements, beginning in 1919 with his high school activities and ending with his death in La Jolla, Ca., in 1991.

An overview of all that is available to see at UCSD can be found at: The Dr. Seuss Collection.

Congratulations Dartmouth-graduate, Dr. Seuss!

Oh, the Places You'll Go!, The Lorax and The Sneeches are still favorites in this household.

44 books published and translated into 21 languages, selling more than 500 million copies; not bad!

To follow all of the centennial happenings on the Seussville Web site go to: Seussville.com

P.S. Hopefully, the statue is more attractive than the postage stamp.