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How The Grinch Stole Christmas
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How The Grinch Stole Christmas is originally a very popular book for children written Dr. Seuss in 1957. Tthe book is in the form of rhymed verse with illustrations.
The central character of the book is known by the name of The Grinch. Grinch is shown as a bitter, green coated creature residing in a cave. He has a heart "two sizes too small,". He stays on a snowy mountain named Mount Crumpit, at height of 10,000 foot situated in north of Whoville. Grinch has only one associate, a faithful and dim dog called Max. Grinch can hear the loud Christmas celebrations taking place in Whoville making him very jealous. He makes plans to "prevent Christmas from coming". He decides to invade the town conduct serial burglary and steal all their Christmas gifts and decorations. But in the end Grinch realizes that he cannot prevent Christmas from coming even after stealing Whos's Christmas presents and decorations and understands that this great festival is not signified by just gifts and presents. Grinch has sea change in his attitude and his heart grows three times bigger. He correct his mistake and return all the presents. The Whos accept him with open arms.
How The Grinch Stole Christmas has also been screened on television in an animated form by the famous American Media Company, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Chuck Jones, a friend and former colleague of Dr. Seuss. Boris Karloff starred as narrator and Grinch. The original text from the book was narrated. Jones was the director, character layout artist and character designer. To fit the medium Jones changed the look of Grinch giving him a frog- like face.
Composer Albert Hague wrote the songs and lyrics by Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss extended the text with two interpolated verse passages. The TV special was a huge hit with audiences including film and animation fans. The show has been telecasted numerous times while annual showings are shown till date. The Grinch featured in more specials later, but none could match the success of the original one. He was shown in the Halloween is Grinch Night in 1977 and again in 1982 in The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat. Off lately his character surfaced in the children's show The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss in 1996.
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In 2000 after the death of Seuss a film was also made based on the book. It was directed by Ron Howard with noted actor Jim Carrey playing the lead role. The film had a lot of commercial success. 
