The National File reported Tuesday that six children’s picture books by the famous American author and cartoonist were cancelled on suspicion of racism, and their price soared to $5,000. The childhood book collection in your homes can be a windfall if it includes Dr. Seuss’ children’s picture books.
The news was announced earlier Tuesday that six books by popular children’s book author Dr. Seuss had been permanently canceled by the foundation that owns the rights, effective immediately, and are no longer in print because of alleged racism in the books. Within hours of Tuesday’s announcement, Dr. Seuss books occupied more than half of the top 20 spots on Amazon.com’s bestseller list and rocketed in price on eBay because Americans just, well, the more banned the book, the more they want to read.
Dr. Seuss (Dr. Seuss) was born in 1904 and passed away in 1991. He was one of the most remarkable children’s writers and educators of the twentieth century. The 48 wonderful educational picture books he created throughout his Life have become famous early Education household names in the West, have been translated into dozens of languages as well as Braille, sold in more than 100 countries, and sold 250 million copies worldwide, and the sales of Harry Potter are no match for Dr. Seuss’ children’s picture books. Dr. Seuss’s children’s picture books have won the Caddick Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for Special Contributions, the highest honor for U.S. picture books, two Academy Awards and an Emmy Award, and have been designated by the U.S. Department of Education as important reading remedial books for children.
With an estimated pre-tax income of $33 million in 2020, Dr. Seuss is ranked by Forbes as the No. 2 highest-paid celebrity to die in 2020, behind the late pop star Michael Jackson.
The six books banned this Time are.
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
If I Ran the Zoo” (If I Ran the Zoo)
McEllingot’s Pool” (McEllingot’s Pool)
On Beyond Zebra! (On Beyond Zebra!)
Scrambled Eggs Super! (Scrambled Eggs Super!)
The Cat’s Quizzer
A rare 1937 publication, “What I Saw” is one of the most famous of the banned books, now priced at $4,400 shipped. Other Dr. Seuss books, such as the paperback published in 1964, are now priced at $449 and $204.99. All of these picture books are marked by Amazon as “new listings,” indicating that they were likely listed after the ban.
Super Scrambled Eggs! published by Dr. Seuss in 1953, is about a boy who makes scrambled eggs from a variety of exotic birds, and the 1953 hardcover edition of this book is currently selling for $4,999.99.
Beyond Zebra! The prices aren’t quite as crazy, but the book’s price may continue to rise. The banned book is being offered at an auction along with two other vintage editions, and the seller is asking $919.99. However, other copies were offered at much lower prices, with one of them being offered for only $200.50. The other copy is $91.00.
For investors in Dr. Seuss’s early books, The Pools of McEligor, published in 1947, is also very good, with current introductory prices of only $200.00, $66.00 and $399.99.
Dr. Seuss is admired by millions of people around the world for the positive values in many of his works, including environmentalism and tolerance, but in recent years, some of his most popular children’s books have come under increasing criticism for their depiction of blacks, Asians and others.
According to the Associated Press, the book “What I Saw” contains racial slurs against Asians because “Asians are portrayed in the book wearing a conical hat, holding chopsticks and eating from a bowl. Similarly, If I Ran the Zoo is racist against people of African descent because the book includes “a painting of two barefoot Africans wearing what appears to be grass skirts with their hair tied on their heads.”
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