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Dr. Seuss After Dark…
So picking my way through Dr. Seuss is how I learned to read.
It started with my mother reading Dr. Seuss stories to me as a child, and then, as my mother told it, I started reading Dr. Seuss to her before I turned three. The first Dr. Seuss book I ever read was Green Eggs and Ham.
Once I had read everything by Dr. Seuss several times, I eventually progressed to reading Winnie the Pooh, Peanuts, and other stuff. I also remember a fun little volume that couldn’t have been longer than 10–15 pages called Ant and Bee.
Since that time, I have read just about everything I could get my hands on, starting with just about everything in my parents’ library, which is where I found The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Native Son (by Richard Wright), Black Boy (By Richard Wright), and so many others. My parents had a ton of books about a ton of different subjects, and they were all stacked on shelves built by my father covering two walls in what we called simply The Middle Room, because it was located between my bedroom and theirs.
But my love of words and reading all started with some green eggs and ham nearly six decades ago when we still lived on Milwaukee Street before moving…
