He is one of the most successful, adored and influential of all children’s authors — but six books by Dr Seuss will no longer be published because of imagery now deemed to be racist and insensitive.
Yesterday would have been Dr Seuss’s 117th birthday. It is also the day on which the business that preserves and protects the author’s legacy made the decision to end publication and sales of the six books, after months of discussion.
The titles affected include the first that the writer born Theodor Seuss Geisel published under his pen name, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, which came out in 1937. The other five are If I Ran the Zoo, McElligot’s Pool, On
