BOSTON (AP) – Six Donna’s six books – including “End to Think Than I Saw It on Mulberry Street” and “If I Don’t Do Zur Ran” – will stop publishing because of the racist and insensitive image that protects the business. Is and gives protection. The author’s legacy said Tuesday.
“These books present people as harmful and misleading,” said Dr. Sis Enterprise The Associated Press said in a statement that the end coincides with the birthday of the author and illustrator.
“Sales of these books are part of our commitment and we have a comprehensive plan to ensure that the list of de se. Cess enterprises represents and supports all communities and families.”
Other books affected include “McLigit Pool,” “Beyond the Zebra!”, “Scrambled Eggs Super!”, And “The Cat’s Quiz.”
The decision to stop publishing and selling the books came after months of discussion last year, when the company was founded by Sis’s family.
“Dr. Sis Enterprise listened and received feedback from our audience, including teachers, academics and experts in the field, as part of our review process. We then worked with a panel of experts, including academics, to review our list of titles.
In “End to Think Than I Set It on Sale Mulbury Street”, an Asian man is shown wearing a cone hat, holding chopsticks and eating from a bowl. “If I Run a Zoo”, includes a drawing of two-legged African men who appear to have grass skirts with hair tied over their heads.
Books by Dr. Sess – born Theodore Sis Giselle in Springfield, Massachusetts, on March 2, 1904 – have been translated into dozens of languages as well as Braille and sold in over 100 countries. He died in 1991.
The company said it is popular and earned an estimated પહેલા 33 million before taxes in 2020, up from just .5 9.5 million five years ago. Forbes listed him second on his highest-earning dead celebrities 2020, just behind the late pop star Michael Jackson.
Sind’s publisher, Random House Children’s Books, released a brief statement on Tuesday: “We respect the decision of Dr. Cess Enterprises (DSE) and the work of the panel reviewing this material last year and their recommendation.”
As Dr. Seuss is loved by millions around the world for his positive values in many of his works, including environmentalism and tolerance, there has been growing criticism in recent years of the way blacks, Asians and others are drawn in some parts of it. In favorite children’s books, as well as in its previous advertising and publicity descriptions.
The National Education Association, which founded Reed Across America Day in 1998 and deliberately aligned it with Giselle’s birthday, has defamed Seuss for many years and promoted a more diverse reading list for children.
School districts across the country also d se. Have moved away from Seuss, which included schools outside of Loudown County, Washington, D.C., Virginia. Last month there were rumors that they were imposing a complete ban on books.
“Research in recent years has revealed strong ethnicity in many of the books written / illustrated by Dr. Seuss,” the school district said in a statement.
In 2017, criticized a school library in Cambridge, Massachusetts A gift of 10 cess books from First Lady Melania Trump, saying many of her works are “scattered throughout racist propaganda, strategy and harmful stereotypes.”
In 2018, the Dr. Sauss Museum removed a mural in his hometown of Springfield. Including an Asian stereotype.
One of Seat’s most popular books, “The In The Hat,” has also been criticized, but will continue to be published for now.
D Se. Cess Enterprise, however, said it is “committed to listening and learning and will continue to review our entire portfolio.”
The move to shut down the books drew an immediate response on social media, which called it another example of “cancel culture”.
“We have found the foundations of burning books dedicated to the author now. Well, all, ”tweeted Ben Shapiro, a vocal critic and author.
Others approved the decision.
“The books we share with children are important. Books shape their worldview and tell them how to relate to people, places and ideas around them. As adults, we need to examine the worldviews we have created for our children, including carefully examining our favorites, ”said Rebecca Fitzimons, an assistant professor at Carbegie Mellon University. Tweeted.
Numerous other popular children’s series have been criticized for alleged racism in recent years.
The 2007 book, “Weed Bubber Burn?” Author and educator Herbert R. Kohl argued that the “Babur Elephant” books were a celebration of colonialism because the title character leaves the jungle and later returns “civilized.” His fellow animals.
In 2012, a book called “Babur’s Travels” was removed from the shelves of a British library due to alleged African money laundering. Critics have also erred in the books “Curious George” for their support of the white man who brought home a monkey from Africa.
And Laura Ingles Wilder, in her novel “Little House the Not Prairie”, has so often criticized the portrayal of Native Americans that her name is removed from the American Library Association’s 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award, which she gives each year. The association still awards the Giselle Award for “the most popular American book for beginners published in English in the United States during the previous year.”
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A.P. National author Hillel Italy contributed from New York.
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