Comedian Michael Loftus calls on the absurd censorship to stop.
That year, Katie Ishizuka penned a 43-page study titled, Rethinking Dr. Seuss for NEA’s Read Across America Day: Racism Within Dr. Seuss’s Children’s Books & The Case for Centering Diverse Books in which the content of 50 of Seuss’s most popular books were analyzed.
Ishizuka co-founded the Conscious Kid Social Justice Library, a subscription service which sends its subscribers monthly shipments of titles featuring multicultural characters, and her report was an early indicator that progressives would seek to remove the beloved children s author from widespread circulation.
Ishizuka wrote that Black children may feel uncomfortable going to school on Read Across America Day because of its ties to Dr. Seuss. She explained that because that the famed children’s author had a history of drawing anti-Black, anti-Japanese political cartoons and advertisements that most people were unaware of, she wanted to
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(CNS News) Six Dr. Seuss books will no longer be published because they portray people “in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises said in a statement on Dr. Seuss’ birthday, which is today, March 2. Seuss died in 1991 at the age of 87.
“Ceasing sales of these books is only part of our commitment and our broader plan to ensure Dr. Seuss Enterprises’s catalog represents and supports all communities and families,” the group said in the statement.
The six books that will no longer be published are
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
LONDON, March 3 They are beloved by generations of early readers for their wacky rhyming tales and mischievous plotlines, but six Dr.Seuss books are being pulled because of imagery now considered racist. Dr. Seuss Enterprises the publisher of the bestselling children’s books announced.
New York and Denver public libraries aren t removing Dr. Seuss books over racist imagery By Caitlin O Kane
March 4, 2021 / 11:06 AM / CBS News
After it was announced this week that six Dr. Seuss books will stop being published because of racist and insensitive imagery, some public libraries across the United States, including those in New York and Denver, have said they will keep the children s books on their shelves.
Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the business that protects and preserves the legacy of the author, announced the news on Tuesday, March 2 – the late author and illustrator s birthday. The company will stop publishing, 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, Dr. Seuss Enterprises said in a statement to the Associated Press.