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Listen to part of a lecture in a children’s literature class.
請聽兒童文學課上的部分內容。
Today we’ll start looking at the most important children’s book authors of the twentieth century.
今天我們將開始學習20世紀最重要的兒童書籍作者。
And I’d like to start with an author illustrator whom some of you probably grew up reading: Dr. Seuss.
我想從一位插畫作家開始，你們中一些人可能是看著他的書長大的，他就是Seuss博士。
His actual name was Theodor Seuss Geisel, Geisel’s work was hugely popular among beginning readers and their parents,
他的本名叫做Theodor Seuss Geisel，Geisel的作品在初級讀者和他們的父母中超級受歡迎，
but it wasn’t always considered literature or subjected to serious academic inquiry until relatively recently.
但是它并不總是被當做文學作品或者受到認真的學術研究，直到最近才有所改觀。
In fact, not only weren’t his books considered literature, but they weren’t always considered good school books.
事實上他寫的書不僅不被認為是文學作品，還不被認為是好的教材。
In the late 1950s and even through the 60s, US teachers resisted Seuss’s books
在二十世紀五十年代末甚至一直到六十年代，美國老師們都抵制Seuss的書，
because they perceived them as having a comic book style...fun, maybe, but not...not appropriate for the classroom.
因為他們覺得這些書有漫畫書的風格，也許有趣但不適合用在教室里。
None of Geisel’s books individually won him a Pulitzer Prize. And he didn’t receive any top children’s literary awards either.
沒有任何一本Geisel的書令他獲得過普利策獎，他也沒贏得過任何頂尖的兒童文學獎項。
Although the Pulitzer Prize Committee did give him a citation in 1984 for his...uh...
雖然普利策組委會1984年對他進行過褒獎，說他......
special contribution over nearly half a century to the education and enjoyment of America’s children and their parents.
對美國兒童及其家長的教育和樂趣做出了近半個世紀的特殊貢獻。
But again, that wasn’t until 1984.
但是這也是直到1984年才出現的。
