The Grinch

This year marks the 65th anniversary of the publication of 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas!' which came out the same year as 'Cat in the Hat' and made a ...

“Geisel does a lot of riffing in the end rhymes (for the verses),” said Nel, the Kansas State professor. “The book is good,” she said. They were singing the refrain from “Welcome Christmas,” a Geisel-penned song full of Seussian rhyme: “Fahoo fores, dahoo dores.” (Another animated film, “The Grinch,” with Benedict Cumberbatch voicing the green-haired curmudgeon, was released in 2018. Another hurdle was the length of the book. He spent many weeks on the last page, finally steering the book to a brotherhood-of-man conclusion that has the transformed Grinch sitting down to eat “roast beast” with the Whos. “Except for the ending.” Seuss,” said Brian Jay Jones, author of the The Grinch is 53 years old in the story. “He hated it, fought with it, threw it across the room,” said Judith Morgan, co-author of “Dr. The beginning was a book, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” which was published 65 years ago. A publisher had asked him to write “a story that first graders can’t put down,” but wanted the words restricted to a list of about 250 that all 6-year-olds should know.