By Mark Pratt, Associated Press
Published May 4, 2021
Sept. 24, 2013, file photo, Courtney Keating, education coordinator of The Literacy Center in Evansville, Ind., reads “If I Ran the Zoo,” By Dr. Seuss, to passersby during an event to promote literacy along the Evansville Riverfront. (Erin McCracken/Evansville Courier & Press via AP, File)
Six Dr. Seuss books including “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” and “If I Ran the Zoo” will stop being published because of racist and insensitive imagery, the business that preserves and protects the author’s legacy said Tuesday.
“These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises told The Associated Press in a statement that coincided with the late author and illustrator’s birthday.
2020’s top banned books
Anti-racist messages aimed at kids drew the most challenges By Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune
Published: April 18, 2021, 6:05am
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As recently as 2010, the award-winning teen novel “Looking for Alaska” topped the American Library Association’s list of books most often challenged by parents and community members, thanks largely to a single sex scene.
Just two years ago, eight of the 10 books on the ALA’s most-banned list featured LGBTQ topics.
But 2020 was a year like no other, and that was reflected in the books Americans tried to exile from classrooms and library shelves. Four of the top 10 most challenged or banned books of 2020 named by the American Library Association tackled issues highlighted by the Black Lives Matter movement, including anti-Black racism and allegations of police brutality.
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As recently as 2010, the award-winning teen novel âLooking for Alaskaâ topped the American Library Associationâs list of books most often challenged by parents and community members, thanks largely to a single sex scene.
Just two years ago, eight of the 10 books on the ALAâs most-banned list featured LGBTQ topics.
But 2020 was a year like no other, and that was reflected in the books Americans tried to exile from classrooms and library shelves. Four of the top 10 most challenged or banned books of 2020 named by the American Library Association tackled issues highlighted by the Black Lives Matter movement, including anti-Black racism and allegations of police brutality.