Theodor Seuss Geisel, more commonly known as Dr. Seuss, was an American children's author, illustrator, animator, and cartoonist. He is known for his work writing and illustrating more than 60 books. His work includes many of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death.
Theatrical While Geisel was most famous for his literary works, he helped write several propaganda films, several cartoon shorts, and a feature-length film. Many of his literary works have also been adapted for the television and as feature-length films. # Title Release date 1 'Neath the Bababa Tree 2 Put on the Spout Series Private Snafu – 3 Your Job in Germany 4 Our Job in Japan 5 Design for Death 6 The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
Theatrical short films Year Film Format Director Writer Distributor Length Budget Ref(s) 1942 Horton Hatches the Egg traditionally animated Bob Clampett Michael Maltese and Rich Hogan Warner Bros. Pictures 10 min. – – 1943 The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins stop motion George Pal Paramount Pictures – – 1944 And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street – – 1950 Gerald McBoing-Boing traditionally animated Robert Cannon Phil Eastman and Bill Scott UPA and Columbia Pictures – –
Feature film adaptations # Title Release date Production company Distributor(s) Rotten Tomatoes Budget Gross 1 How the Grinch Stole Christmas Imagine Entertainment Universal Pictures 50% $123 million $345.1 million 2 The Cat in the Hat Universal Pictures(United States and Canada)DreamWorks Pictures(International) 10% $109 million $133.9 million 3 Horton Hears a Who! 20th Century Fox AnimationBlue Sky Studios 20th Century Fox 79% $85 million $297.1 million 4 The Lorax Illumination Universal Pictures 53% $70 million $348.8 million 5 The Grinch 60% $75 million $540 million 6 The Mean One Sleight of Hand ProductionsAmy Rose ProductionsKali Pictures Atlas Film Distribution 17% $612,260 7 The Cat in the Hat Warner Bros. Pictures Animation Warner Bros. Pictures 8 Oh, the Places You'll Go! 9 Thing One and Thing Two TBA
Musicals # Title First production year Music Lyrics 1Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical 1994Mel MarvinTimothy Mason 2Seussical 2000Stephen FlahertyLynn Ahrens 3The Lorax 2018Charlie FinkCharlie Fink Television Specials # Title Release date Director Studio Network 1 How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Chuck JonesMGM Animation/Visual Arts CBS 2 Horton Hears a Who! 3 The Cat in the Hat Hawley Pratt DePatie-Freleng 4 The Lorax 5 Dr. Seuss on the Loose (Consists of three shorts: The Sneetches, The Zax, and Green Eggs and Ham) 6 The Hoober-Bloob Highway Alan Zaslove 7 Halloween Is Grinch Night Gerard BaldwinABC 8 Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You? 9 The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat Bill PerezMarvel Productions 10 The Butter Battle Book (final TV special aired in Dr. Seuss's lifetime) Ralph BakshiBakshi Animation TNT 11 In Search of Dr. Seuss Vincent PattersonTurner Home Entertainment 12 Daisy-Head Mayzie Tony CollingwoodHanna-BarberaTony Collingwood Productions 13 Dr. Seuss's The Sneetches Bronagh O'Hanlon Dr. Seuss EnterprisesBrown Bag FilmsNetflix Netflix 14 Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose TBA TBA
Series # Title Premiere date End date Network 1 The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show(only TV series aired in Dr. Seuss's lifetime) CBS 2 The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss Nickelodeon 3 Gerald McBoing-Boing Cartoon Network (US)Teletoon (Canada) 4 The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! PBS Kids (US)CITV/Tiny Pop (UK)Treehouse TV/CBC Kids (Canada) 5 Green Eggs and Ham November 8, 2019Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Netflix 6 Dr. Seuss's Red Fish, Blue Fish TBA 7 Dr. Seuss's Horton! 8 Wacky Wednesday TBA Direct-to-video This Dr. Seuss collection was a series released by Random House. They are a video version of a "book on tape". None of these productions are animated. This section does not contain duplicate entries. While Horton Hatches The Egg, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Horton Hears a Who, The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, and Because A Little Bug Went Ka-Choo! were adapted into full animation, they were also adapted into a non-animated production for this Dr. Seuss collection.
Dr. Seuss Beginner Book Video Dr. Seuss's ABC plus I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! and Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? Hop on Pop plus Oh Say Can You Say? and Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish plus Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! and The Foot Book The Cat in the Hat Comes Back plus Fox in Socks and There's a Wocket in My Pocket! I Am Not Going to Get Up Today! plus The Shape of Me and Other Stuff, Great Day for Up! and In a People House 2 Dr. Seuss Favorites: Green Eggs and Ham and The Cat in the Hat The Cat in the Hat plus Maybe You Should Fly a Jet! Maybe You Should Be a Vet! Green Eggs and Ham plus The Tooth Book and Ten Apples Up On Top!
Dr. Seuss Video Classics Circus Classics/Horton Hatches the Egg (narrated by Billy Crystal) plus If I Ran the Circus Treasury Classics/Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories (narrated by John Lithgow) Holiday Classics/How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (narrated by Walter Matthau) plus If I Ran the Zoo Big Animal Classics/Horton Hears a Who! (narrated by Dustin Hoffman) plus Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose Lucky Classics/Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? (narrated by John Cleese) plus Scrambled Eggs Super! Bedtime Classics/Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book (narrated by Madeline Kahn) plus Hunches in Bunches
Other Notes Alive! Dr. Seuss's My Many Colored Days (1998) Read with Me DVD! Green Eggs and Ham (2005) Video games
Dr. Seuss' Fix-Up the Mix-Up Puzzler (1984) Dr. Seuss's ABC (1995) Green Eggs and Ham (1996) The Cat in the Hat (1997) Dr. Seuss Toddler (1999) Dr. Seuss Preschool (1999) Dr. Seuss Kindergarten (1999) Dr. Seuss Reading (1999) The Grinch (2000) – Game Boy Color The Grinch (2000) – PlayStation, Dreamcast, Windows Green Eggs and Ham (2003) The Cat in the Hat (2003) - PS2, Xbox The Cat in the Hat (2003) - Game Boy Advance The Cat in the Hat (2005) How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (2007) – Nintendo DS The Grinch: Christmas Adventures (2023)
See also Dr. Seuss bibliography References