The English language owes a great debt to Shakespeare. He invented over 1700 of our common words by changing nouns into verbs, changing verbs into adjectives, connecting words never before used together, adding prefixes and suffixes, and devising words wholly original.

Dr. Seuss was a storyteller in the grandest sense of the word. Not only did he tell fantastical tales of far-away places but he also gave us a unique visual language that carried his stories to new heights of artistic expression.

Words Made Up By Dr. Seuss

• zummers.
• zizzer-zazzer-zuzz.
• yuzz-a-ma-tuzz.
• nizzards.
• ham-ikka-schnim-ikka-schnam-ikka-schnopp.
• fiffer-feffer-feff.
• yekko.
• flunnel.

Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, is a beloved holiday classic. In addition to the book, most American children know the late 1960s cartoon version of the story as well as the more recent Jim Carrey live action film. Seuss’s 1957 book crediting Dr. Seuss with coining the term.

Grinch is a term often used to describe a person as someone who is negative and tries steal your joy.

He is best known as the main character of the 1957 children’s book How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. He has been portrayed and voiced by many different actors, including Boris Karloff, Hans Conried, Bob Holt, Anthony Asbury, Jim Carrey, and Benedict Cumberbatch….Grinch.

In fact, not only did he hate the Christmas season, he hated it so much that he was compelled to terrorize the entire Christmas-loving town of Whoville on Christmas Eve. …

Finally fed up with the Whos’ Christmas, the Grinch concocts a plan to crush the Whos’ Christmas spirit by stealing all of their presents, decorations and food while they are asleep. He disguises himself as Santa Claus and dresses his pet dog Max as a reindeer, then descends into Whoville.

They’d do something He liked least of all! Every Who down in Who-ville, the tall and the small, Would stand close together, with Christmas bells ringing. They’d stand hand-in-hand. And the Whos would start singing!

The Grinch’s green coloring was inspired by a rental car. In the original book, the Grinch is illustrated as black and white, with hints of pink and red. Rumor has it that Jones was inspired to give the Grinch his iconic coloring after he rented a car that was painted an ugly shade of green.

On your palette, slightly mix brilliant yellow green with deep green permanent. Then use the 12 bright to paint the Grinch’s face. Your 12 bright should be double loaded in both the light and dark green and when you paint the Grinch’s face, the colors will blend on the canvas to make a varied green.

Although his father influenced Geisel’s love of drawing, Geisel credited his mother, Henrietta Seuss Geisel, for the most influence on his writing technique. Henrietta would read to her two children with rhythm and urgency, the way she had sold pies in her father’s bakery.

Grinch is still mean, but in this third film adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ book How the Grinch Stole Christmas, he might be more human than we thought. The green monster is returning to the silver screen after 18 years, this time in the form of 3D computer animation and voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch.

Dr. Seuss never defined a species or race for The Grinch however, the Grinch character is/ was the EXACT same age as Theodore Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss. His granddaughter stated that the Cat in the Hat was the author on his good days and Grinch was him on his bad days.

Max

The breed of Max from the 2000 live action movie How The Grinch Stole Christmas is a mutt – the dog who plays Max alongside Jim Carrey as The Grinch was actually adopted from a shelter! The pup-actress’s name is Kelley.

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