Six children’s books by the late Dr. Seuss have been halted on Amazon because of their discriminatory content, and 15 of the site’s top 20 bestsellers are Dr. Seuss books.
Dr. Seuss, a classic children’s book author who released numerous picture books during his lifetime, recently stopped releasing six picture books because of the illustrations’ racist content against Asians and African-Americans; however, the results backfired, as these books caused a wave of rush on the online marketplace Amazon, and even surged to the best-seller list.
The site’s top 20 bestsellers, as many as 15 books are Dr. Seuss books, including the list of the first “magic spirit cat” (The Cat in the Hat), followed by “one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish “(One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish) and “Green Eggs and Ham” (Green Eggs and Ham). In addition, “Magic Spirit Cat” and “Green Eggs and Ham” also appeared in Amazon Canada‘s top ten bestseller list.
Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the publisher of books for the late author and illustrator Theodor Seuss Geisel, announced in a statement on February 2 that it will no longer release six of Dr. Seuss’s picture books, including “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” (And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street), “If I Ran the Zoo the Zoo,” “McElligot’s Pool,” “On Beyond Zebra!” (On Beyond Zebra!), “Scrambled Eggs!” (Scrambled Eggs Super!) and “The Cat’s Quizzer.
In a statement, the company emphasized that “these books portray people in a harmful and wrong way” and responded substantively to critics who have complained about the racist drawings in the books over the past few years.
Ironically, former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump have both mentioned Dr. Seuss in their speeches, and Obama has compared “everything kids need to know to Dr. Seuss books”; however, the company chose this year’s Read Across America Day to make the statement, and President Biden did not mention Dr. Seuss in his National Book Day speech.
Former First Lady Michelle has introduced Dr. Seuss’s book “The Cat in the Hat” on National Book Day.
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