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1957 children's story by Dr. Seuss

How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
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Book cover
Writer Dr. Seuss
Land United States
Language English
Genre Children's literature
Publisher Redbook (magazine)
Random House (volume)

Publication engagement

 October 12, 1957 (Redbook)
November 24, 1957 (renewed 1985)
Media type Print
Pages 64[ane]
ISBN 0-394-80079-vi
OCLC 178325
Preceded by The Cat in the Hat (publication date)
Horton Hears a Who! (Whoville wise)
Followed past The True cat in the Hat Comes Dorsum

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! is a Christmas children's story past Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel written in rhymed verse with illustrations by the writer. Information technology follows the Grinch, a grouchy, alone creature who tries to cancel Christmas by stealing Christmas gifts and decorations from the homes of the nearby town of Whoville on Christmas Eve. Miraculously, the Grinch realizes that Christmas is not all near coin and presents.

The story was published as a book by Random House in 1957, and at approximately the aforementioned time in an effect of Redbook.[2] The book criticizes the commercialization of Christmas and the holiday season.[3]

The book has been adjusted many times, first equally a 1966 animated Tv set film narrated by Boris Karloff, who also provided the Grinch's voice. In 1977, a Halloween prequel, Halloween Is Grinch Night, aired with the Grinch voiced past Hans Conried. These were followed with a 2000 alive-activeness feature picture starring Jim Carrey, a 2007 musical, a 2018 figurer-animated flick starring Bridegroom Cumberbatch, and a 2020 live television adaptation of the musical starring Matthew Morrison.

Plot [edit]

The Grinch is a bitter, grouchy creature with a center "two sizes too small" who lives in a cave on Mount Crumpit, a steep mount just north of Whoville, home of the cheerful and warmhearted Whos. He is annoyed past all the noisy Christmas festivities that take place in Whoville, and decides to stop Christmas from coming. He disguises himself as Santa Claus and travels to Whoville on a sleigh with his domestic dog Max. He slides down the chimney of the kickoff firm on the square and steals all the presents, the Christmas tree, and the food for the Christmas feast. He is interrupted in his burglary by Cindy Lou Who, a young Who girl, but concocts a crafty lie to outcome his escape.

After doing the aforementioned to the other houses, the Grinch takes his sleigh to the peak of Mount Crumpit and prepares to dump the stolen items into the abyss. Every bit dawn breaks, he expects to hear the Whos crying, but is shocked to hear them singing a joyous Christmas song. He realizes perhaps Christmas "means a little bit more" than simply presents and feasting, causing his shrunken centre to grow three sizes larger. The Grinch reforms and returns the Whos' presents and food and is immune to take part in their Christmas banquet.

Groundwork and publication history [edit]

Dr. Seuss working on How the Grinch Stole Christmas! in 1957

The Grinch first appeared in a 33-line illustrated poem past Dr. Seuss called "The Hoobub and the Grinch," which was originally published in the May 1955 edition of Redbook mag.[four] Dr. Seuss began work on How the Grinch Stole Christmas! a couple of years later, around the beginning of 1957. He had recently completed The Cat in the Hat and was in the midst of founding Beginner Books with Phyllis and Bennett Cerf and his wife, Helen Palmer Geisel. Helen, who had ongoing medical problems and had suffered a minor stroke in April 1957, however acted as an unofficial editor, as she had with previous Dr. Seuss books.[5]

Dr. Seuss claimed he was the inspiration for the character, as his wife'southward health problems and his dismay with the commercialization of Christmas made him feel "very Grinchish" equally he looked in the mirror 1 year on December 26.[half dozen] [7]

Dr. Seuss wrote the book quickly and was mostly finished with information technology within a few weeks.[viii] Biographers Judith and Neil Morgan wrote, "Information technology was the easiest book of his career to write, except for its determination."[5] According to Dr. Seuss:

I got hung up getting the Grinch out of the mess. I got into a situation where I sounded like a second-rate preacher or some biblical truism... Finally in desperation... without making any statement whatsoever, I showed the Grinch and the Whos together at the table, and made a pun of the Grinch carving the 'roast beast.' ... I had gone through thousands of religious choices, so subsequently three months it came out like that.[5]

By mid-May 1957, the book was finished and in the post to the Random House offices in New York. In June, Dr. Seuss and Helen took a month-long vacation to Hawaii, where he checked and returned the volume'south galley proof.[5] The book debuted in Dec 1957, in both a book version published by Random House and in an issue of Redbook.[9] Dr. Seuss defended the book to Theodor "Teddy" Owens, the 1-year-one-time son of his niece, Peggy Owens.[5]

As of 2005, the volume had been translated into nine languages,[10] including Latin as Quomodo Invidiosulus Nomine Grinchus Christi Natalem Abrogaverit. The translation was published in October 1998 by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers Inc.[11]

Reception [edit]

Thousand. Due south. Libby, writing in the New York Herald Tribune, compared the volume favorably to Dr. Seuss's earlier works: "His peculiar and original genius in line and word is always the same, yet, and then rich are the variations he plays on his themes, always fresh and amusing."[12] Kirkus Reviews wrote, "Youngsters will be in transports over the goofy gaiety of Dr. Seuss'due south outset book near a villain."[12] The reviewer chosen the Grinch "easily the best Christmas-cad since Scrooge."[12] Ellen Lewis Buell, in her review in The New York Times, praised the book'due south handling of its moral, as well as its illustrations and poesy. She wrote:

Even if y'all prefer Dr. Seuss in a purely antic mood, you lot must acknowledge that if there's a moral to be pointed out, no one tin can do it more than gaily. The reader is swept forth by the ebullient rhymes and the weirdly zany pictures until he is limp with relief when the Grinch reforms and, like the latter, mellow with good feelings.[13]

The review for The Saturday Review of Literature stated: "The inimitable Dr. Seuss has brought off a fresh triumph in his new picture volume... The poesy is as lively and the pages are every bit bright and colorful equally anyone could wish."[12] The reviewer suggested that parents and older siblings reading the book to young children would besides savor its moral and humor.[thirteen] Charlotte Jackson of the San Francisco Chronicle called the volume "wonderful fantasy, in the truthful Dr. Seuss way, with pictures in the Christmas colors."[12]

Analysis [edit]

Some writers, including Dr. Seuss, take made a connexion betwixt the Grinch and Dr. Seuss. In the story, the Grinch laments that he has had to put up with the Whos' celebration of Christmas for 53 years. As both Thomas Fensch and Charles Cohen note, Dr. Seuss was 53 when he wrote and published the book.[14] [fifteen] Dr. Seuss asserted the connection in an article in the Dec 1957 edition of Redbook: "I was brushing my teeth on the morning of the 26th of concluding December when I noticed a very Grinch-ish eyebrow in the mirror. Information technology was Seuss! So I wrote near my sour friend, the Grinch, to see if I could rediscover something nearly Christmas that obviously I'd lost."[sixteen] Seuss's stride-daughter, Lark Dimond-Cates, stated in a speech communication in 2003, "I always thought the Cat... was Ted on his good days, and the Grinch was Ted on his bad days."[17] Cohen notes that Seuss drove a car with a license plate that read "GRINCH".[15]

Thomas Fensch notes that the Grinch is the first adult and the first villain to exist a main character in a Dr. Seuss book.[14]

Adaptations [edit]

The book has been adjusted into a diverseness of media, including phase and film. Chuck Jones and Ben Washam adapted the story as an animated television special in 1966, featuring narration by Boris Karloff, who also provided the Grinch's voice. Thurl Ravenscroft sang "You're A Hateful Ane, Mr. Grinch", with lyrics written past Dr. Seuss himself.[18] [19] A prequel called Halloween Is Grinch Night aired on ABC on October 28, 1977. Hans Conried was the voice of the Grinch and the Narrator because Boris Karloff had died in 1969. A crossover special chosen The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Chapeau aired on ABC on May 20, 1982. In 2000, the volume was adapted into a live-action film, directed by Ron Howard and starring Jim Carrey every bit the Grinch.[twenty] Illumination Amusement also developed a 3D blithe feature moving picture, titled The Grinch [21] directed past Yarrow Cheney and Scott Mosier and starring Benedict Cumberbatch equally the Grinch.[22] It was originally scheduled to exist released on November 10, 2017,[23] but was pushed back to Nov 9, 2018.[24]

Several audio recordings and audio-visual adaptations of the book have also been published. In 1975, Aught Mostel narrated an LP record of the story.[25] In 1992, Random Firm Habitation Video released an updated animated version of the book narrated by Walter Matthau, also including the story, If I Ran The Zoo.[26] In 2009, an interactive due east-volume version was released for the iPhone.[27] In 2000, Rik Mayall read the volume every bit one of four of Seuss's books on the sound CD The Dr Seuss Collection.

A musical phase version was produced by the Old Globe Theatre, San Diego in 2007. It besides was produced on Broadway and a limited-engagement US tour in 2008. The Due north American Bout began in the fall of 2010 and has afterwards toured every fall since.[28] The book was adapted into a thirteen-minute song, performed by the Boston Pops Orchestra, bundled by Danny Troob, and featuring bassist Reid Burton and actor Will LeBow narrating it on the Boston Pops'southward 2013 CD, "A Boston Pops Christmas – Alive from Symphony Hall with Keith Lockhart" [29]

Legacy [edit]

Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as ane of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children".[30] In 2012 it was ranked 61st amongst the "Height 100 Picture show Books" in a survey published past School Library Journal – the quaternary of five Dr. Seuss books on the list.[31]

The volume's principal characters have made appearances in other works. The Grinch appears in the animated specials Halloween Is Grinch Night and The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat. Max, the Grinch's dog, and the Grinch himself too appear in the children's puppet show The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss. The Grinch, Cindy Lou Who, and Max, appear in Seussical, a musical which takes its plot from several Dr. Seuss books.

Since the volume was written, the word "grinch" has entered the popular lexicon as an informal noun, divers every bit a "killjoy" or a "spoilsport."[32] [33]

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!: Full Color Jacketed Edition Hardcover". Amazon. Retrieved June 11, 2022.
  2. ^ Zielinski, Stan (June 20, 2006). "Collecting Children'south Picturebooks: Dr. Seuss – Redbook Magazine Original Stories". 1stedition.cyberspace. Archived from the original on September 10, 2010. Retrieved September 9, 2010.
  3. ^ Nel 2004, p. 130.
  4. ^ Nel 2004, p. 117.
  5. ^ a b c d eastward Morgan & Morgan 1996, pp. 157–158.
  6. ^ Witter, Brad (November 7, 2018). "Who Was Dr. Seuss' Inspiration for the Grinch? Himself!". biography.com. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
  7. ^ West, Mark I. (December 21, 2020). "Don't allow the coronavirus Grinch steal your holiday joy". The Charlotte Observer . Retrieved December 21, 2020.
  8. ^ MacDonald 1988, p. 92.
  9. ^ Nel 2004, p. 118.
  10. ^ Lindemann 2005, pp. 31–33.
  11. ^ Reardon, Patrick (December 15, 1998). "How the Grinch Went Latin". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on March 9, 2015. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  12. ^ a b c d eastward Fensch 2001, pp. 128–129.
  13. ^ a b Fensch 2001, pp. 128–29.
  14. ^ a b Fensch 2001, p. 126.
  15. ^ a b Cohen 2004, p. 330.
  16. ^ Hart, William B. (December 1957). "Betwixt the Lines". Redbook. equally quoted in Cohen 2004, p. 330
  17. ^ Dimond-Cates, Distraction (October 27, 2003). Speech by Lark Dimond-Cates (Speech). United states Post'due south unveiling of Theodor Seuss Geisel postage. Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden, Springfield, Massachusetts. equally quoted in Cohen 2004, p. 321
  18. ^ Lindemann 2005, p. 124.
  19. ^ Morgan & Morgan 1996, pp. 190–192.
  20. ^ "How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)". Box Role Mojo. Archived from the original on March 10, 2015. Retrieved March ix, 2015.
  21. ^ Kit, Borys (Feb 7, 2013). "'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' Remake in the Works at Universal". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on Feb 9, 2013. Retrieved February seven, 2013.
  22. ^ Kroll, Justin (April 13, 2016). "Benedict Cumberbatch to Voice the Grinch in 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas'". Variety. Archived from the original on Dec 22, 2017.
  23. ^ "Universal Dates 'Despicable Me 3,' New 'Grinch Who Stole Christmas'". The Hollywood Reporter. November 17, 2011. Archived from the original on January 18, 2014. Retrieved Jan 16, 2014.
  24. ^ Kroll, Justin (June 7, 2016). "Illumination's 'The Grinch' Pushed Dorsum to 2018". Diverseness. Archived from the original on June eight, 2016. Retrieved June 7, 2016.
  25. ^ Lindemann 2005, p. 139
  26. ^ Lindemann 2005, p. 125.
  27. ^ Broida, Rick. "'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' dazzles on iPhone". Cnet. Archived from the original on December ii, 2013. Retrieved Dec 4, 2013.
  28. ^ "Welcome". Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical. Archived from the original on October 14, 2017. Retrieved May ix, 2018.
  29. ^ "Boston Pops Releases 'A Boston Pops Christmas' Holiday Album". Boston Magazine. October 22, 2013. Retrieved June 1, 2022.
  30. ^ National Instruction Clan (2007). "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children". Archived from the original on September 20, 2012. Retrieved August 19, 2012.
  31. ^ Bird, Elizabeth (July 6, 2012). "Pinnacle 100 Flick Books Poll Results". School Library Journal. Archived from the original on December 4, 2012. Retrieved August 19, 2012.
  32. ^ "Grinch". Lexico . Retrieved Dec 21, 2018.
  33. ^ "Grinch". Merriam-Webster . Retrieved December 21, 2018.

Sources [edit]

  • Cohen, Charles (2004). The Seuss, the Whole Seuss, and Null But the Seuss: A Visual Biography of Theodor Seuss Geisel . Random House. ISBN978-0-375-82248-iii.
  • Fensch, Thomas (2001). The Human Who Was Dr. Seuss . Woodlands: New Century Books. ISBN0-930751-11-vi.
  • Lindemann, Richard (2005). The Dr. Seuss Catalog: An Annotated Guide to Works by Theodor Geisel in All Media, Writings Almost Him, and Appearances of Characters and Places in the Books, Stories and Films. McFarland & Visitor.
  • MacDonald, Ruth (1988). Dr. Seuss . Twayne Publishers. ISBN0-8057-7524-ii.
  • Morgan, Neil; Morgan, Judith Giles (1996). Dr. Seuss and Mr. Geisel: A Biography . New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN978-0-306-80736-7.
  • Nel, Philip (2004). Dr. Seuss: American Icon . Continuum Publishing. ISBN0-8264-1434-half-dozen.
  • Pease, Donald Due east. (2010). Theodor Seuss Geisel . Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0-nineteen-532302-iii.

External links [edit]

  • Grinch at Don Markstein'south Toonopedia. Archived from the original on February 5, 2016.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_Grinch_Stole_Christmas!

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