Dr. will have six books. Seuss – including “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” and “If I Ran the Zoo” – stopped being published because of racist and insensitive images, the a business that preserves and protects the author’s legacy Tuesday. .
“These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises told the Associated Press in a statement to coincide with the author’s birthday. and the late photographer.
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A copy of the book ‘And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,’ by Dr. Seuss
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“Stopping the sale of these books is just part of our commitment and overall plan to ensure that the Dr. Seuss Enterprises catalog represents and supports all communities and families,” he said.
Other influential books include “Amar McElligot,” “On Beyond Zebra!”, “Scrambled Eggs Super!”, And “Cat’s Quizzer.” ”
The decision to suspend the publication and sale of the books was made last year after months of debate, the company told AP.
“Dr. Seuss Enterprises listened and received feedback from our audience including teachers, academics and experts in the field as part of our review process. We then worked with a panel of experts, including educators, to review our catalog of titles, ”he said.
Books by Dr. Seuss – born Theodor Seuss Geisel in Springfield, Massachusetts, on March 2, 1904 —- translated into dozens of languages in addition to braille and sold in more than 100 countries. He died in 1991.
It’s hugely popular, earning around $ 33 million before tax in 2020, up from just $ 9.5 million five years ago, the company said. Forbes No. 2 recorded him on the dead celebrities at the highest salary in 2020, behind just the late pop star Michael Jackson.
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A mural featuring Dr. Seuss near an entrance at the Amazing World of the Dr. Seuss Museum, in Springfield, Mass.
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As Dr. Seuss with millions around the world for the positive values in many of his works, including environment and tolerance, criticism of the method has been growing in recent years. in which Blacks, Asians and others are drawn in some of his most beloved children’s books, as well as his previous advertising and propaganda illustrations.
Founded for several years, Seuss has been disbanded by the National Education Association, which founded Read Day Across America in 1998 and coincides with Geisel’s birthday, and has added a more diverse reading list. encourage children.
School districts across the country have also moved away from Dr. Seuss, urged Loudoun County, Virginia, schools just outside Washington, DC, to make rumors last month that they were banning the books altogether.
“Research in recent years has revealed strong racial commitments in many books written / designed by Dr Seuss,” the school district said in a statement.
In 2017, a school librarian in Cambridge, Massachusetts, criticized a gift of 10 Seuss books from first lady Melania Trump, saying many of his works were “immersed in racist propaganda, charitable photography, and harmful stereotypes. ”
In 2018, the Dr. Seuss museum in his Springfield town removed a wall that embodied an Asian stereotype.
“The Cat in the Hat,” one of Seuss’ most popular books, has also been criticized, but will still be published for now.
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Courtney Keating, education coordinator at the Literacy Center in Evansville, Ind., Reads ‘If I Ran the Zoo,’ by Dr. Seuss, to passers-by at an event to promote literacy along the Evansville River
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Dr. said. Seuss Enterprises, however, is committed to “listening and learning and will continue to review our entire portfolio. ”
Several other popular children’s series have been criticized in recent years for racism.
In his 2007 book, “Should We Burn Babar ?,” author and educator Herbert R. Kohl argued that the books “Babar an Ailbhein” marked colonialism because of its the character of the title leaves the lump and returns to the “civilization” of his contemporaries.
One of the books, “Babar’s Travels,” was taken off the shelves of the British library in 2012 because of its stereotypes of Africans. Critics have also failed in the “Curious George” books for their base of white man bringing home an African monkey.
And Laura Ingalls Wilder’s portraits of Native Americans in her novels “Little House On the Prairie” have been lost so often that the Library Association of America took its name in 2018 from a lifetime achievement award. out every year.