In late 1937, there appeared in the world a book of thirty-two pages titled And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street written in rhythmically repetitive and meticulously rhymed simplistic verse which some would call outlandish. Each page is illustrated in bright colours, with large and imaginative caricatures. The writings of Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, has been a cultural cornerstone in North American civil society for nearly eight decades. Seuss was responsible for the invention of some of children's literature eminent characters and his books are often some of the very first read to children or read by children themselves. However, their readership is not limited to children. Seuss' imagination has shaped intergenerational communities whose adult members narrate to their children the very stories their parents had read to them. Dr. Seuss' writings and imagery are pervasive in modern North American culture partly due to the very intensity of the themes presented in his stories, whether they are clearly illustrated or covertly relayed (Menand, The New Yorker). What seems to be the mindless whimsy of his books ” the made-up words, the outlandish creatures and devices ” conveys an empowering message. Seuss is a smasher of traditional boundaries. His invention of words and creates defies both the language and human and animal boundary. Seuss' writings are incessantly sarcastic and satirical yet overpoweringly serious, ultimately defying the boundary between what is serious and what is senseless. In the words of Shira Wolosky, "Dr. Seuss is a master craftsman within his chosen area of expertise (Wolosky, Children's Literature Review). The child, for Dr. Seuss, was born into a state of perfect happiness, away from adult corruption, yet already possessing egalitarian-like virtues” a sense of justice and righteousness, yearning to belong and participate within the society. The challenge was to protect the child from adult corruption and monolithic influences, particularly those of dictatorial institutions. Seuss insisted that the child was innately resistant to propaganda. Children's literature served this democratic ideology by not becoming its propagandist (a role he once played during the war but which he found unbefitting to a time of peace) but by instilling virtues of respect and trust in their own person