Pick a direction

Logo of The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum, in his hometown of Springfield, Mass.

“You have brains in your head.

You have feet in your shoes.

You can steer yourself

any direction you choose.’’

— Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991, aka Dr. Seuss) in Oh, the Places You’ll Go! He became perhaps the world’s most famous children's author and illustrator. But he was also a controversial political cartoonist, as well as an animator and filmmaker.

Geisel was born and raised in Springfield, Mass., the son of Henrietta (née Seuss) and Theodor Robert Geisel. His father managed his family’s brewery and was later appointed to supervise Springfield's public park system after the brewery had to be shut because of Prohibition. Mulberry Street in Springfield, made famous in his first children's book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, is near his boyhood home, on Fairfield Street.

You can visit the Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum, in Springfield.

Mulberry Street in Springfield

And gone tomorrow

How did it get so late so soon?

Its night before its afternoon.

December is here before its June.

My goodness how the time has flewn.

How did it get so late so soon? 

-- Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)