The recent decision to discontinue publishing six Dr. Seuss books has rippled down to local libraries, where issues of ethnic insensitivity and racial stereotypes are being rekindled.
Nationally, some libraries already have decided not to display or promote the six picture books otherwise cheerful, colorful, rhymable classics that some find objectionable because of their racial and ethnic depictions.
The Chicago Public Library was among the first to pull from its circulation the six titles singled out by Dr. Seuss Enterprises earlier this month: 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.
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Upstream Art + Culture festival with a local heart
Talented local artists are transforming blank walls in Albury into bright canvasses celebrating our region’s wonderful wildlife, landscapes and rich heritage, as part of this year’s Albury Wodonga Upstream festival.
The artists are creating murals depicting our environment and the creatures that live there, as well as the First Nations people that have called the area home for thousands of years.
It’s part of a ‘locals for locals’ theme of Upstream, which will be held from 5-8 March.
The murals are being created at the following sites between now and March 2021: