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*original art freehand pencil and ink on cardboard after the book reference*


This Monday, March 2nd, was children's book author Dr. Seuss's birthday.  I have been volunteering on a rotating basis to read books for the weekly Story Hour at the local library.  This week of course we read Dr. Seuss books.  Fun Dr. Seuss fact I found while preparing to be the reader for this week:  

Theodore ("Ted") Seuss Geisel actually pronounced his middle name "Soice" to rhyme with "Voice".  Yes you heard me right, Dr. Soice LOL  

A friend of his [wrote a short poem about the proper pronunciation](http://www.anapsid.org/aboutmk/seuss.html):  

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You’re wrong as the deuce
And you shouldn’t rejoice
If you’re calling him Seuss.
He pronounces it Soice.
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*Alexander Liang*

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I drew the Cat (without hat) on cardboard.  

I drew the hat on a separate piece of cardboard and cut it out so we could play "Pin the Hat on the Cat" with the kids after the story hour was over. It was a blast!  There were about 15 kids there this week, some weeks there are more.  

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I also prepared a craft project for the kids, making [truffula trees](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lorax) from pipe cleaners and cotton balls.  @thingone and @thingtwo are super proud of their truffula trees.  It is amazing how much the [Lorax](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lorax) resonates with preschool age kids.  They *get* it.  

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I am bummed that I didn't get a picture of my example truffula tree, it looked awesome!  I teased the cotton ball out into tufts which I colored purple and pink, and it had a green and blue striped trunk (two pipe cleaners twisted).  

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I have been bringing my guitar to these story hours at the library and singing children's songs at the beginning while people are showing up.  I realized these are actually my first musical performances in front of a live audience since I played the [Southeast Alaska State Fair](https://www.seakfair.org/) the summer of 2013!

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