![]() Seuss Enterprises will stop publishing six of the famed author and illustrator's books over racist depictions. ![]() Marco Rubio tweeting, "When history looks back at this time it will be held up as an example of a depraved sociopolitical purge driven by hysteria and lunacy." A common refrain is that Seuss - who died in 1991 and wrote the majority of the offending books in the 1950s, with the most recent published in 1976 - is being unfairly held to standards set by modern-day PC culture.ĭr. Seuss Enterprises, which manages the Cat in the Hat author's catalog, expressed support for in its statement, saying it was committed to ensuring his work "represents and supports all communities and families."Ĭonservative critics, meanwhile, are blaming the decision to stop publishing the six books on "cancel culture," with Florida Sen. The announcement coincides with the National Education Association's Read Across America Day, a youth literacy event which, until 2018, was aligned with the birthday of Seuss (born Theodor Seuss Geisel) but has since pivoted to celebrating children's books featuring more diversity and inclusivity. ![]() Those titles - If I Ran the Zoo, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, McElligot's Pool, Scrambled Eggs Super!, The Cat's Quizzer and On Beyond Zebra! - have been singled out for featuring racist imagery, with a 2019 study conducted by researchers from the Conscious Kid's Library and the University of California-San Diego finding that the writer's work contained Orientalist and anti-Black references, including characters of color "presented in subservient, exotified or dehumanized roles." Seuss Enterprises marked what would have been the late children's author and illustrator's 117th birthday with a major announcement: It will stop the publication and licensing of six Seuss titles which "portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong," according to a statement shared on social media.
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