In New York City, Greg Zire, 46, said the decision was another example of “cancel culture.” Not everyone was pleased to hear in the news. Seuss Enterprises’ catalog represents and supports all communities and families,” the company said. “Ceasing sales of these books is only part of our commitment and our broader plan to ensure Dr. The company said the move was a first step in its efforts to promote inclusion for all children. Among the publishers are Random House and Vanguard Press. Seuss Enterprises said it worked with a panel of experts, including educators, to review its catalog and made the decision last year to end publication and licensing. Some of the children’s books written by Dr. “Open one of his books (“If I Ran a Zoo” or “And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street,” for example), and you’ll see the racist mockery in his art,” librarian Liz Phipps Soerio told Melania Trump in a letter.
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 were pulled from publication because they contain racist and insensitive imagery, the company formed to preserve the deceased author’s legacy said on Tuesday. NEW YORK - Six children’s books written decades ago by Dr.
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