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Miss Grace Spivey arrived in Threestep, Georgia, in August 1938. She stepped off the train wearing a pair of thick-soled boots suitable for hiking, a navy blue dress, and a little white tam that rode the waves of her red hair at a gravity-defying angle. August was a hellish month to step off the train in Georgia, although it was nothing, she said, compared to the 119 degrees that greeted her when she arrived one time in Timbuktu, which, she assured us, was a real place in Africa. I believe her remark irritated some of the people gathered to welcome her on the burned grass alongside the tracks. When folks are sweating through their shorts, they don\u2019t like to hear that this is nothing <\/em>compared to someplace else. Irritated or not, the majority of those present were inclined to see the arrival of the new schoolteacher in a positive light. Hard times were still upon us in 1938, but, like my momma said, \u201cWe weren\u2019t no poorer than we\u2019d ever been,\u201d and the citizens of Threestep were in the mood for a little excitement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miss Spivey looked like just the right person to give it to them. She was, by almost anyone\u2019s standards, a woman of the world. She\u2019d gone to boarding schools since she was six years old; she\u2019d studied French in Paris and drama in London; and during what she called a \u201cfruitful intermission\u201d in her formal education, she had traveled extensively in the Near East and Africa with a friend of her grandmother\u2019s, one Janet Miller, who was a medical 30 doctor from Nashville, Tennessee. After her travels with Dr. Miller, Miss Spivey continued her education by attending Barnard College in New York City. She told us all that at school the first day. When my little brother Ralphord asked what did she study at 35 Barnyard College, Miss Spivey explained that Barnard, which she wrote on the blackboard, was the sister school of Columbia University, of which, she expected, we all had heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was there, she told us, in the midst of trying to find her true mission in life, that she wandered one afternoon into a lecture by the famous John Dewey, who was talking about his famous book, Democracy and Education<\/em>. Professor Dewey was in his seventies by then, Miss Spivey said, but he still liked to chat with students after a lecture\u2014especially female students, she added\u2014sometimes over coffee, and see in their eyes the fire his words could kindle. It was after this lecture and subsequent coffee that Miss Spivey had marched to the Teacher\u2019s College and signed up, all aflame. Two years later, she told a cheery blue-suited woman from the WPA that she wanted to bring democracy and education to the poorest, darkest, most remote and forgotten corner of America. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They sent her to Threestep, Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miss Spivey paused there for questions, avoiding my brother Ralphord\u2019s eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What we really wanted to know about\u2014all twenty-six of us across seven grade levels in the one room\u2014was the pearly white button hanging on a string in front of the blackboard behind the teacher\u2019s desk up front. That button on a string was something new. When Mavis Davis (the only bona fide seventh grader, at age thirteen) asked what it was for, Miss Spivey gave the string a tug, and to our astonishment, the whole world\u2014or at least a wrinkled map of it\u2014unfolded before our eyes. Her predecessor, Miss Chandler, had never once made use of that map, which was older than our fathers, and until that moment, not a one of us knew it was there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miss Spivey showed us on the map how she and Dr. Janet Miller had sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and past the Rock of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean Sea. Using the end of a ruler, she gently tapped such places as Morocco and Tunis and Algiers to mark their route along the top of Africa. They spent twenty hours on the train to Baghdad, she said, swathed in veils against the sand that crept in every crack and crevice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd can you guess what we saw from the train?\u201d Miss Spivey asked. We could not. \u201cCamels!\u201d she said. \u201cWe saw a whole caravan of camels<\/em>.\u201d She looked around the room, waiting for us to be amazed and delighted at the thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We all hung there for a minute, thinking hard, until Mavis Davis spoke up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe means like the three kings rode to Bethlehem,\u201d Mavis said, and she folded her hands smugly on her seventh-grade desk in the back of the room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miss Spivey made a mistake right then. Instead of beaming upon Mavis the kind of congratulatory smile that old Miss Chandler would have bestowed on her for having enlightened the rest of us, Miss Spivey simply said, \u201cThat\u2019s right.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How a Cat in a Hat Changed Children\u2019s Education<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In a 1954 Life magazine article, author John Hersey expressed concern that children in the United States were disengaged from learning how to read. Among other problems, Hersey noted, the reading material available to grade-schoolers had a hard time competing with television, radio, 1. and<\/strong><\/em> other media for children\u2019s attention. One solution he proposed was to make children\u2019s books more 2. in<\/em><\/strong>teresting, since \u201can individual\u2019s sense of wholeness . . . follows, and cannot precede, a sense of accomplishment.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story of The Cat in the Hat\u2019s publication began when William 3. Spaulding, the director <\/strong><\/em>of the education division at the publishing company Houghton Mifflin, read Hersey\u2019s article and had an idea. Spaulding agreed that there was a need for appealing books for beginning 4. readers. He<\/strong><\/em> thought he knew who should write one. He arranged to have dinner with Theodor Geisel, who wrote and illustrated children\u2019s books under the name \u201cDr. Seuss,\u201d and issued him a
challenge: \u201cWrite me a story that first graders can\u2019t put down!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having 5. known Spaulding for many years and having maintained a professional relationship with him,<\/em><\/strong> Geisel was an experienced writer and illustrator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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