You couldn't miss teacher Judy Mason dressed as the Cat in the Hat, one of the best-known characters created by Dr. Seuss, as she led a parade of 1- to 8-year-olds down the halls of the Richmond Hill First Christian Academy on Tuesday.
With Mason's help, the children made green eggs and ham and read Seuss books in celebration of his birthday. Mason, in her 33rd year of teaching, has organized the parade at this school for the past two years, but has done it for 10 years at a different school. She says she does it to "promote the love of reading and help them (the children) be lifelong readers."
The children, most dressed in red shirts and jeans, wore red and white paper hats like that of the Cat in the Hat. Some children and teachers were dressed as other characters like Thing One and Thing Two, wearing blue wigs or actually coloring their hair blue. Some had cat whiskers painted on their faces.
Dr. Seuss books by Theodor Seuss Geisel - better known as Dr. Seuss - have been entertaining and teaching young readers for over half a century. The "Cat in the Hat" is considered by some to be the defining book of Dr. Seuss' career.
Geisel was born March 2, 1904, in Springfield, Mass.