It was Seuss! So, I wrote about my sour friend, the Grinch, to see if I could rediscover something about Christmas that obviously I’d lost.” Theodor Geisel was reportedly feeling, “Grinch-ish” prior to authoring the famous poem about the Grinch. He was quoted as saying, “I was brushing my teeth on the morning of the 26th of last December when I noticed a very Grinch-ish countenance in the mirror. In an interview with, “Redbook,’ Geisel humorously admitted that he, himself, was his original inspiration for the character, the Grinch. Early in life he had been ridiculed and never recovered from the negativity. Actually, in the story, he was the epitome of everything evil and unpleasant causing him to be shunned by society, in general. The Grinch was an unusual person, that did not appreciate Christmas the way the Whos down in Whoville did. Before long, the poem had been published as a book. The popular magazine was responsible for introducing Geisel’s 32-line illustrated poem, “The Hoobub and the Grinch.” The poem was published in “Redbook’s” May 1955 edition.

The Grinch made his first appearance in, “Redbook,” a women’s magazine publication. The talented Seuss is responsible for giving his fans 60 children’s books including some of his famous ones including, “The Cat in the Hat” and “Horton Hears a Who.” One of his most famous stories that had a special inspiration was the epic and timeless story of, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.” Geisel both authored and illustrated his own books. Seuss was best known for his many children’s stories with a sing-song type of rhyming.

Seuss, was an American writer, poet, and cartoonist. Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known to the world as, Dr. Grinch is a term often used to describe a person as someone who is negative and unpleasant.

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