Many of the drawings have tracing paper overlays that add color on top of the line drawings and feature Geisel's notes to the printer. Page layouts from McElligot's Pool show his skill at the difficult medium of watercolor. Geisel, who was both author and illustrator, invented fabulous scenarios and unforgettably unique characters. But no matter how imaginative his creations, at their core always lay a grain of logic and truth. It is a situation to be built upon logically.
Children analyze fantasy.
They know you're kidding them. There's got to be logic in the way you kid them. Dr. Seuss Dr. Seuss was born Theodor Geisel in Springfield, Massachusetts, on March 2, 1904. After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1925, he proceeded on to Oxford University with the intent of acquiring a doctorate in literature. He returned from Europe in 1927, and began working for a magazine called Judge , the leading humor magazine in America at the time, creating both cartoons and humorous articles.