![]() ![]() "Open one of his books ("If I Ran a Zoo" or "And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street," for example), and you`ll see the racist mockery in his art," librarian Liz Phipps Soerio told Melania Trump in a letter.ĭr Seuss Enterprises said it worked with a panel of experts, including educators, to review its catalogue and made the decision last year to end publication and licensing. Its librarian turned down the gift, saying images criticised as "racist propaganda and harmful stereotypes" filled their pages. Seuss books to a Cambridge, Massachusetts, school. ![]() In 2017, then-first lady Melania Trump offered a donation of 10 Dr. The controversy over Dr Seuss imagery has simmered for years. "Oh, the Places You`ll Go!" often tops the New York Times bestseller list during graduation season, and also was not on the list of scrapped books. The most famous Dr Seuss titles - "The Cat in the Hat" and "Green Eggs and Ham" - were not on the list of books that will be yanked from publication. The books, originally published between 19, contain numerous caricatures of Asian and Black people that incorporate stereotypes that have been criticised as racist. "These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong," Dr Seuss Enterprises said in a statement explaining why it was stopping their publication. The books - "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" - are among more than 60 classics written by Dr Seuss, the pen name of the writer and illustrator Theodor Geisel, who died in 1991. Six children`s books written decades ago by Dr Seuss were pulled from publication because they contain racist and insensitive imagery, the company formed to preserve the American author`s legacy said on Tuesday. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |