Dr. Seuss Audiobooks

Rhyme built to be read aloud, from the pen behind Gertrude McFuzz and The Big Brag

1 audiobook reviewed

Who is Dr. Seuss?

Dr. Seuss was the pen name of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991), the American children’s author, illustrator, animator and cartoonist behind more than sixty books, among them several of the most popular children’s titles ever written – over 600 million copies sold, in more than twenty languages, by the time of his death. The alias began in his student days at Dartmouth and Oxford; the career began as an illustrator and cartoonist for Vanity Fair and Life, in advertising, and in political cartooning, before his first children’s book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, appeared in 1937.

After wartime work in the US Army’s animation and film department, he produced the run that made him immortal in nurseries everywhere: The Cat in the Hat, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Green Eggs and Ham, The Lorax, Oh, the Places You’ll Go! and more. Two Emmys and a special Pulitzer citation followed, and his birthday is now the date of an annual national reading initiative in the United States – a fitting legacy for a man who convinced millions of children that reading was a pleasure.

Dr. Seuss in audiobooks

Seuss was effectively writing for audio before audio existed: his books are built to be read aloud, and everyone who has ever done the reading knows it. A narrator simply completes the circuit. Gertrude McFuzz and The Big Brag, the Seuss title in our catalogue, delivers that signature playfulness in a compact package – ideal for car journeys, bedtimes and the sort of repeat listening small children cheerfully demand.

For UK families he remains a happy anomaly: utterly American, utterly universal. Few authors make a child’s earliest listening feel so much like a game, which is precisely why he has never gone out of fashion.