Its librarian turned down the gift, saying images criticized as "racist propaganda and harmful stereotypes" filled their pages. Seuss books to a Cambridge, Massachusetts, school.
In 2017, then-first lady Melania Trump offered a donation of 10 Dr. "Oh, the Places You'll Go!" often tops the New York Times bestseller list during graduation season, and also was not on the list of scrapped books. Seuss titles - "The Cat in the Hat" and "Green Eggs and Ham" - were not on the list of books that will be yanked from publication. The books, originally published between 19, contain numerous caricatures of Asian and Black people that incorporate stereotypes that have been criticized as racist. Seuss Enterprises said in a statement explaining why it was stopping their publication. "These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong," Dr. Seuss, the pen name of the American writer and illustrator Theodor Geisel, who died in 1991. The books - "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street," "If I Ran the Zoo," "McElligot's Pool," "On Beyond Zebra!" "Scrambled Eggs Super!" and "The Cat's Quizzer" - are among more than 60 classics written by Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the business that preserves and protects the author and illustrator's legacy, announced on his birthday, Tuesday, March 2, 2021, that it would cease publication of several children's titles including "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" and "If I Ran the Zoo," because of insensitive and racist imagery.(AP) Seuss, to passersby during an event to promote literacy along the Evansville Riverfront.
24, 2013, file photo, Courtney Keating, education coordinator of The Literacy Center in Evansville, Ind., reads "If I Ran the Zoo," By Dr. Seuss were pulled from publication because they contain racist and insensitive imagery, the company formed to preserve the deceased author's legacy said on Tuesday. Six children's books written decades ago by Dr.
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