Members of Williamson High School’s Hi-Y club celebrated the 105 birthday if Dr, Seuss in a unique way.

Tyler Matney, Morgan Henson, Jessica Browning, Jace Branch and Alex Anderson dressed-up like characters from a Dr. Seuss book and read to students at Riverside Elementary, Sacred Heart School and Williamson Middle School.

Dr. Seuss was born Theodor Seuss Geusel in 1904. He published over 60 children’s books often characterized by creative characters and rhyme. His most notable books include the bestselling Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, and One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish.

Geusel credited his mother with both his ability and desire to create the rhymes for which he became so well known.

Numerous versions of his work have been produced, including 11 television specials, three feature films, and a Broadway musical.

Perhaps the defining book of Geusel’ career, “The Cat in the Hat” developed as part of a unique joint venture between Houghton Mifflin (Vanguard Press) and Random House. Houghton Mifflin asked Geusel to write and illustrate a children’s primer using only 225 “new-reader” vocabulary words. Random House obtained the trade publication rights, and Houghton Mifflin kept the school rights. With the release of The Cat in the Hat, Geusel became the definitive children’s book author and illustrator.

At the time of his death on Sept. 24, 1991, Geusel had written and illustrated 44 children’s books, including all-time favorites as Green Eggs and Ham, Oh, the Places You’ll Go, Fox in Socks, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. His books had been translated into over 15 languages. Over 200 million copies were sold around the world.

His honors include two Academy awards, two Emmy awards, a Peabody award and the Pulitzer Prize.

Dr. Seuss books include:

• And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (1937)

• The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (1938)

• The King’s Stilts (1939)

• The Seven Lady Godivas (1940)

• Horton Hatches the Egg (1940)

• McElligot’s Pool (Caldecott Honor Book, 1947)

• Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose (1948)

• Bartholomew and the Oobleck (Caldecott Honor Book, 1949)

• If I Ran the Zoo (Caldecott Honor Book, 1950)

• Scrambled Eggs Super! (1953)

• Horton Hears a Who! (1954)

• On Beyond Zebra! (1955)

• If I Ran the Circus (1956)

• How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957)

• The Cat in the Hat (1957)

• The Cat in the Hat Comes Back (1958)

• Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories (1958)

• Happy Birthday to You! (1959)

• Green Eggs and Ham (1960)

• One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (1960)

• The Sneetches and Other Stories (1961)

• Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book (1962)

• Dr. Seuss’s ABC (1963)

• Hop on Pop (1963)

• Fox in Socks (1965)

• I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew (1965)

• The Cat in the Hat Song Book (1967)

• The Foot Book (1968)