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It made its decision, it said, after hearing feedback from teachers, specialists and academics and working with a panel of experts to review the work of the famous children’s author.

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Seuss Enterprises, citing a new focus on highlighting diversity, especially when it comes to race and gender identity. The National Education Association, which founded Read Across America Day in 1998 and deliberately aligned it with Geisel's birthday, has for several years deemphasized Seuss and encouraged a more diverse reading list for children. Seuss books — including "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" and "If I Ran the Zoo" — will stop being published because of racist and insensitive imagery, the business that preserves and protects the author's legacy said Tuesday. In 2016, Barack Obama marked the “birthday of one of America’s revered wordsmiths [who] used his incredible talent to instill in his most impressionable readers universal values we all hold dear. Seuss Enterprises will no longer publish or license six of the author’s books, including his first children’s book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (1937) and If I Ran the Zoo (1950), because of racist and insensitive imagery.

Forbes listed Dr Seuss as the second highest-paid dead celebrity of 2020, in part thanks to multimillion-dollar film and TV deals but mostly because of sales of his books. Seuss is by millions around the world for the positive values in many of his works, including environmentalism and tolerance, there has been increasing criticism in recent years over the way Blacks, Asians and others are drawn in some of his most beloved children's books, as well as in his earlier advertising and propaganda illustrations. The decision to cease publication and sales of the books was made last year after months of discussion, the company told AP. Seuss Enterprises told The Associated Press in a statement that coincided with the late author and illustrator's birthday.

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In 2017, a school librarian in Cambridge, Massachusetts, criticized a gift of 10 Seuss books from first lady Melania Trump, saying many of his works were "steeped in racist propaganda, caricatures, and harmful stereotypes. These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” the business said in a statement on Tuesday.Two years later, Donald Trump said Americans should “remember the still-vibrant words of Dr Seuss: ‘You have brains in your head. Educators turned his birthday into National Read Across America Day in 1998, although the reading-focused day has since been broadened to include a wider range of authors. And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street has been criticized for including “a Chinese man with sticks”, who has two lines for eyes and can be seen holding chopsticks and a bowl. The list of affected books does not include any of his highly celebrated titles such as Green Eggs and Ham, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Cat in the Hat or The Lorax.

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Critics also have faulted the "Curious George" books for their premise of a white man bringing home a monkey from Africa. Seuss, born Theodore Seuss Geisel, have long been considered canon for children’s literature thanks to their playful illustrations and tongue-twisting rhymes. It does include his very first book, And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street, which was published in 1937. Seuss Enterprises, which manages his publishing catalogue, says it made the move to protect and preserve the author’s legacy.Dr Seuss Enterprises said it would cease publication of And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, If I Ran the Zoo, McElligot’s Pool, On Beyond Zebra! While Dr Seuss remains a beloved figure in children’s literature, his legacy has come under increasing scrutiny from parents and educators. Seuss books, with the NEA often using Seuss books, characters and imagery for the day’s programming and promotions in the past thanks to a longtime partnership with Dr. American author and illustrator Dr Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904 - 1991) sits at his drafting table in his home office with a copy of his book, 'The Cat in the Hat', La Jolla, California, April 25, 1957.