The six books are:
What’s wrong with the books?
Although Dr. Seuss is adored by millions around the world for the positive values in many of his works, including environmentalism and tolerance, some say several of those books have caused harm with how they depict people of colour.
In If I Ran the Zoo, for example, there are characters referred to as Africans who wear no clothes except for grass skirts and are drawn with ape-like features.
Illustrations of African characters in Dr. Seuss’s 1950 book If I Ran the Zoo (Image credit: Dr. Seuss Enterprises)
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