Dr. Seuss’s never-before-published book, “Which Pet Should I Have?” is seen on display the day it goes on sale at the Books and Books store on July 28, 2015 in Coral Gables, United States.
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Dr. Seuss’s books have flooded Amazon’s best-seller list in the United States after it was announced that six of the author’s publications were being taken down for racist images.
“The Cat in the Hat” is currently the best-selling book on the Amazon store in the US, closely followed by “One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish” and “Green Eggs and Ham”, along with several others. titles of the late Theodor Seuss Geisel. In all, 15 Dr. Seuss posts were on Amazon’s Top 20 list on Friday morning.
“Green Eggs and Ham” and “The Cat in the Hat” also appeared on Amazon Canada’s 10 best-selling books list.
This comes after Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the company that manages the deceased author’s estate, said Tuesday that it made the decision last year to suspend publishing and licensing six of his books: “And to think I saw him on Mulberry Street, “If I ran the zoo,” “McElligot’s pool,” “At Beyond Zebra!”, “Super scrambled eggs!” And “The Cat Contest”.
“These books portray people in hurtful and mean ways,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises said in the statement, and some of the author’s books have faced criticism in recent years for racist images.
The announcement came on Tuesday on American Reading Day, which would have been Geisel’s 117th birthday and has teamed up with the author.
President Joe Biden left any mention of Dr. Seuss out of his American-wide Reading Day proclamation on Monday, signaling further distancing from the author. Former Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama mentioned Dr. Seuss in their previous speeches.
Following rumors of a ban on Dr. Seuss’s books, the Loudoun County, Virginia, school district issued a statement last weekend to clarify that it had not done so, but had provided “guidance to schools. for the last several years so that Lea Across America Day was not connected exclusively with Dr. Seuss’s birthday. ”
“Research in recent years has revealed strong racial overtones in many books written / illustrated by Dr. Seuss,” the statement said.