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In
May of 1954, Life published a report concerning illiteracy
among school children. The report said, among other things,
that children were having trouble to read because their
books were boring.
This inspired Geisel's publisher, and prompted him to send
Geisel a list of 400 words he felt were important, asked
him to cut the list to 250 words (the publishers idea of
how many words at one time a first grader could absorb),
and write a book. Nine months later, Geisel, using 220 of
the words given to him published The Cat in the Hat, which
went on to instant success.
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