To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Dr. Seuss’s perennial bestseller "Oh, the Places You’ll Go!",
Random House Children’s Books has established its first college
scholarship and will award one 2010 graduating high school senior
$5,000 toward post-secondary education.
Upon its publication in
1990, "Oh, the Places You’ll Go!" was an immediate success, embraced
enthusiastically for its wonderfully wise outlook on life and for
encouraging the potential that lies within us all. This remarkable book
has since sold over 8.5 million copies and become the quintessential
gift for graduates of all ages—from preschool to high school to college
and beyond.
In the spirit of Dr. Seuss’s joyous ode to personal
fulfillment and its enduring message about life’s ups and downs, high
school seniors will be asked to describe in an essay the opportunities
and challenges that they think their education will present to them in
the future.
Applications for the scholarship are now available
online and will be accepted through February 15, 2010. The winner will
be announced and posted by May 1, 2010, on the Random House, Inc., Web
site ohtheplaces.org. Visit the site for complete scholarship details.
In
what would be the last book of an extraordinary career, Theodor
Geisel—better known as Dr. Seuss —created one of his most powerful
works. Dr. Seuss’s editor, Janet Schulman, recalls her surprise when
she received "Oh, the Places You’ll Go!" from him. “We were amazed when
he said that he had a book for us. We had no clue he was working on
anything and suddenly we had this complete book.” In "Oh, the Places
You’ll Go!", he stated his philosophy on life more completely than ever
before. Dr. Seuss died in 1991, just one year after the book’s
publication, leaving a legacy with generations of readers that
continues to inspire today.
About Dr. Seuss
Theodor
“Seuss” Geisel is quite simply the most beloved children’s book author
of all time. The 44 books he wrote and illustrated under the name Dr.
Seuss (and others that he wrote but did not illustrate, including some
under the pseudonyms Theo. LeSieg and Rosetta Stone) have been
translated into 30 languages. Hundreds of millions of copies have found
their way into homes and hearts around the world. Dr. Seuss’s long list
of honors includes the Pulitzer Prize and eight honorary doctorates.
Works based on his original stories have won three Oscars, three Emmys,
three Grammys, and a Peabody. For more information about Dr. Seuss and
his works, visit seussville.com.
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