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The culture wars have a new front: Dr. Seuss.
You may have heard by now that Dr. Seuss Enterprises LP, which manages the beloved author’s publishing interests, has decided to stop printing six of the author’s books. In a statement released on March 2, Dr. Seuss’s birthday, the organization said:
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“We are committed to action. To that end, Dr. Seuss Enterprises, working with a panel of experts, including educators, reviewed our catalog of titles and made the decision last year to cease publication and licensing of the following titles: And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
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The Greater Victoria Public Library is reviewing some of its Dr. Seuss titles now that six of his books will no longer be published because they have been deemed to portray people in ways that are “hurtful and wrong.” Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced on Tuesday that it worked with a panel of experts, including educators, to review its titles, and decided last year to stop publishing and licensing six of them. Libraries elsewhere are vetting their Dr. Seuss titles as well, concerned about racist and insensitive imagery.
Kelly Ridgway, spokesperson for the GVPL, said Thursday that an internal review has begun of the four Dr. Seuss titles cited by Dr. Seuss Enterprises that are in the library’s collection: And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, McElligot’s Pool, If I Ran the Zoo and On Beyond Zebra!
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On March 2, the nation’s annual Read Across America Day (a holiday once synonymous with Dr. Seuss, designated on this date to honor his birthday), Dr. Seuss Enterprises released an unexpected statement. The venerable author’s estate announced that it has decided to end publication and licensure of six books by Theodor Seuss Geisel, including his first book under his celebrated pen name,
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (published in 1937), and
If I Ran the Zoo (published in 1950). “These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” the statement read, alluding to their appalling racial and ethnic stereotypes.