The local bookstore has two tall shelves of Dr Seuss. But not a single copy of the books that have been banned and I was looking for. Here are the titles:
“On Beyond Zebra!”
“Scrambled Eggs Super!”
“The Cat’s Quizzer”
If anybody has old paper copies they no longer need, I’m accepting donations. Please reach out.
Except for On Beyond Zebra, I’ve never even heard of these, and I read a lot of Dr. Seuss. And this was in the 90s, so it’s not because they were disappeared. These would seem to be his less popular books.
Btw, be sure to get your hands on Julie of the Wolves and Island of the Blue Dolphins. These are historically important children’s books that I’ve seen end up on lists.
They also banned the very popular “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street”
“If I Ran the Zoo”
“McElligot’s Pool”
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Banning books seems silly in the digital age when you can just download a high resolution scanned copy and then glue it together in a basic jig. They’re really not hard to make or use at all ime:
https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Manufacture-and-Use-Your-Own-Book-Binding-J/
You really should look into books that were “cancelled” previously. Dr. Seuss is far from the first author to be blacklisted. When I was a kid, I read, and very much enjoyed, Forrest Carter’s “The Education of Little Tree”. I think you’d be hard pressed to find that in a library now. I remember googling the author to see what else he’d written, at some point, and being practically blown out of my chair by the hate spewing out of the search results.
Up next: The Berenstein Bears: https://notthebee.com/article/if-you-thought-dr-seuss-was-bad-wait-until-you-see-the-bernstein-bears
Oh, please, no. We live our lives between Dr Seuss and the Bernstein Bears. God, I hate all this.
My brain has been so short-circuited by this insanity that yesterday in the woods I was directing my daughter how not to step in the mud and said “don’t step on the black part of the trail.” And immediately I felt a fear that maybe I was using the word “black” in some socially unapproved way. I didn’t used to be this way. This was done to me in adulthood. Imagine what happens to the brain of the children who grow up with this.
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