Theodor Seuss Geisel, more commonly known as Dr. Seuss, was an American children's author, illustrator, animator, and cartoonist. He is known for his work writing and illustrating more than 60 books. His work includes many of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death.
While Geisel was most famous for his literary works, he helped write several propaganda films, several cartoon shorts, and a feature-length film. Many of his literary works have also been adapted for the television and as feature-length films.
| # | Title | Release date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 'Neath the Bababa Tree [1] | June 1, 1931 |
| 2 | Put on the Spout [1] | June 1, 1931 |
| Series | Private Snafu | June 28, 1943–1946 |
| 3 | Your Job in Germany | 1945 |
| 4 | Our Job in Japan | 1945 |
| 5 | Design for Death [2] | 1947 |
| 6 | The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. | July 1, 1953 |
| Year | Film | Format | Director | Writer | Distributor | Length | Budget | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | Horton Hatches the Egg | traditionally animated | Bob Clampett | Michael Maltese and Rich Hogan | Warner Bros. Pictures | 10 min. | – | – |
| 1943 | The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins | stop motion | George Pal | Paramount Pictures | – | – | ||
| 1944 | And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street | – | – | |||||
| 1950 | Gerald McBoing-Boing | traditionally animated | Robert Cannon | Phil Eastman and Bill Scott | UPA and Columbia Pictures | – | – |
| # | Title | Release date | Production company | Distributor(s) | Rotten Tomatoes | Budget | Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas | November 17, 2000 | Imagine Entertainment | Universal Pictures | 51% [3] | $123 million [4] | $345.1 million [4] |
| 2 | The Cat in the Hat | November 21, 2003 | Universal Pictures (United States) DreamWorks Pictures (International) | 9% [5] | $109 million [6] | $133.9 million [6] | |
| 3 | Horton Hears a Who! | March 14, 2008 | Blue Sky Studios | 20th Century Fox | 79% [7] | $85 million [8] | $297.1 million [8] |
| 4 | The Lorax | March 2, 2012 | Illumination | Universal Pictures | 53% [9] | $70 million [10] | $348.8 million [10] |
| 5 | The Grinch | November 9, 2018 | 59% [11] | $75 million [12] | $540 million [12] | ||
| 6 | The Mean One | December 9, 2022 | Sleight of Hand Productions Amy Rose Productions Kali Pictures | Atlas Film Distribution | 17% [13] | — | $612,260 [14] [15] |
| 7 | The Cat in the Hat | November 6, 2026 [16] [17] | Warner Bros. Pictures Animation | Warner Bros. Pictures | — | — | — |
| 8 | Oh, the Places You'll Go! | March 17, 2028 [18] | — | — | — | ||
| 9 | Thing One and Thing Two | TBA [16] | — | — | — | ||
| 10 | The Cat in the Hat Comes Back | TBA | — | — | — |
| # | Title | First Production Year | Music | Lyrics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical | 1994 | Mel Marvin | Timothy Mason |
| 2 | Seussical | 2000 | Stephen Flaherty | Lynn Ahrens |
| 3 | The Lorax | 2018 | Charlie Fink | Charlie Fink [19] |
| # | Title | Release date | Director | Studio | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas! | December 18, 1966 | Chuck Jones | MGM Animation/Visual Arts | CBS |
| 2 | Horton Hears a Who! | March 19, 1970 | |||
| 3 | The Cat in the Hat | March 10, 1971 | Hawley Pratt | DePatie-Freleng | |
| 4 | The Lorax | February 14, 1972 | |||
| 5 | Dr. Seuss on the Loose | October 15, 1973 | |||
| 6 | The Hoober-Bloob Highway | February 19, 1975 | Alan Zaslove | ||
| 7 | Halloween Is Grinch Night | October 29, 1977 | Gerard Baldwin | ABC | |
| 8 | Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You? | May 2, 1980 | |||
| 9 | The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat | May 20, 1982 | Bill Perez | Marvel Productions | |
| 10 | The Butter Battle Book (final TV special aired in Dr. Seuss's lifetime) | November 13, 1989 | Ralph Bakshi | Bakshi Animation | TNT |
| 11 | In Search of Dr. Seuss | November 6, 1994 | Vincent Patterson | Turner Home Entertainment | |
| 12 | Daisy-Head Mayzie | February 5, 1995 | Tony Collingwood | Hanna-Barbera Tony Collingwood Productions | |
| 13 | Dr. Seuss's The Sneetches [20] | November 3, 2025 [21] | Bronagh O'Hanlon [21] | Dr. Seuss Enterprises Brown Bag Films Netflix | Netflix |
| 14 | Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose [20] | TBA | TBA | ||
| # | Title | Premiere date | End date | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show (only TV series aired in Dr. Seuss's lifetime) | December 16, 1956 | March 10, 1957 [22] | CBS |
| 2 | The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss | October 13, 1996 | May 15, 1998 | Nickelodeon |
| 3 | Gerald McBoing-Boing | August 22, 2005 | November 28, 2007 | Cartoon Network (US) Teletoon (Canada) |
| 4 | The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! | September 6, 2010 | October 14, 2018 | PBS Kids (US) CITV/Tiny Pop (UK) Treehouse TV/CBC Kids (Canada) |
| 5 | Green Eggs and Ham [23] | November 8, 2019 [24] | April 8, 2022 | Netflix |
| 6 | Dr. Seuss's Red Fish, Blue Fish [20] | September 8, 2025 [21] | TBA | Netflix |
| 7 | Dr. Seuss's Horton! [20] [25] | October 7, 2025 [21] | TBA | Netflix |
| 8 | Wacky Wednesday [20] | TBA | TBA | Netflix |
This Dr. Seuss collection was a series released by Random House. They are a video version of a "book on tape". None of these productions are animated. This section does not contain duplicate entries. While Horton Hatches The Egg, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Horton Hears a Who, The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, and Because A Little Bug Went Ka-Choo! were adapted into full animation, they were also adapted into a non-animated production for this Dr. Seuss collection.