Read Across America Day and Chuck Jones Center for Creativity

Craig Kausen, chairman of the Center and Chuck Jones's grandson, with the 3rd grade class at Vista Verde Elementary in Irvine. That's "Dandelion Mom" Melissa Northway, back row right.

It was "Read Across America" Day in honor of the birthday of Dr. Seuss and our very own Craig Kausen, Chuck Jones's grandson, read "Horton Hears a Who!"--a book that Chuck Jones and Dr. Seuss turned into a Peabody Award-winning half-hour television special in 1970--to students from Vista Verde Elementary School in Irvine. After the reading, everyone got busy drawing a "long-nosed, over-weight, kind-hearted" character.