![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Seuss’s Early Work as an Advertising Illustrator and Political Cartoonist Seuss & More Philosophy Lessons from Great Children’s Stories This reading will be added to our collection, 1,000 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free. If you have been feeling Grinchy in any way as we approach the holiday season, prepare to get your heart melted. You can also listen to it on Spotify below: The record would go on to earn Karloff a Spoken Word Grammy Award, the only such entertainment award he ever won. Seuss profoundly apologized after the fact. Grinch.” He was not credited in the original cartoon and Dr. ![]() Side note: It is not Karloff but Thurl Ravenscroft singing “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Karloff’s reading of How the Grinch Stole Christmas is pretty much taken straight from the animated TV special with some judicious editing and no commercials to get in the way. Unlike Bela Lugosi, who suffered from being typecast his entire career post- Dracula, Karloff was able to make a good career from that breakthrough performance with good humor. Later he would have a second career capitalizing on his horror pedigree, hosting anthology shows on television, and reading not just tales of Edgar Allan Poe on vinyl, but other not-so-scary children’s lit, like Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories and the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen. ![]()
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