{"id":188592,"date":"2021-03-03T14:30:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T19:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=188592"},"modified":"2021-03-03T14:30:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T19:30:48","slug":"dr-seuss-books-soar-to-amazons-top-10-list-after-cancellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dr-seuss-books-soar-to-amazons-top-10-list-after-cancellation\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Seuss Books Soar To Amazon\u2019s Top 10 List After \u2018Cancellation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdr-seuss-books-soar-to-amazons-top-10-list-after-cancellation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=188592&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/book-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Dr. Seuss books leaped onto Amazon\u2019s top 10 bestselling list on Wednesday, a day after the publisher announced it was yanking six books from the catalog over alleged racist and insensitive content.<\/p>\n<p>Seuss\u2019 books, among them \u201cThe Cat in the Hat,\u201d \u201cGreen Eggs and Ham\u201d and \u201cFox in Socks,\u201d made up nine of the top 10 bestselling books on Wednesday morning. And within the Top 50 books, there were more than 30 Seuss titles.<\/p>\n<p>The publisher on Tuesday announced that it would stop selling six titles, citing racist and insensitive imagery.\u00a0\u201cThese books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,\u201d\u00a0Dr. Seuss Enterprises\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/dr-seuss-books-racist-images-d8ed18335c03319d72f443594c174513\">told<\/a> The Associated Press in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCeasing sales of these books is only part of our commitment and our broader plan to ensure Dr. Seuss Enterprises\u2019 catalog represents and supports all communities and families,\u201d the company told the outlet in a statement Tuesday, which was the 117th birthday of Dr. Seuss, whose real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel.<\/p>\n<p>The company that seeks to preserve and protect the author\u2019s works said they will no longer publish \u201cAnd to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,\u201d \u201cIf I Ran the Zoo,\u201d \u201cMcElligot\u2019s Pool,\u201d \u201cOn Beyond Zebra!,\u201d \u201cScrambled Eggs Super!,\u201d and \u201cThe Cat\u2019s Quizzer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While millions of American children have been raised with the books, which include positive messages about tolerance and protecting the environment, some have drawn criticism over the way blacks, Asians and others are drawn. The author has also been ripped for his earlier advertising and propaganda illustrations.<\/p>\n<p>One illustration in the 1937 work \u201cAnd To Think I Saw It On Mulberry Street\u201d shows a \u201cChinaman who eats with sticks,\u201d a caricatured picture of an Asian man using chopsticks.\u00a0Drawings in \u201cIf I Ran The Zoo,\u201d published in 1950, shows some black characters resembling monkeys, along with an illustration of an Arab chieftain on a camel with a caption that suggests he should be in a zoo.<\/p>\n<p>Prices soared online. For example, when searching for \u201cIf I Ran The Zoo,\u201d the Amazon site listed \u201c1 new,\u201d \u201c1 used,\u201d and \u201c1 collectible,\u201d but when clicking on the links for \u201cnew\u201d or \u201cused,\u201d a message popped up reading, \u201cCurrently there are no other sellers matching your location and\/or item specification.\u201d Yet a \u201ccollectible\u201d link showed the book available for $1,500.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Beyond Zebra\u201d listed two \u201cused\u201d books, with prices of $169 and $768. \u201cScrambled Eggs Super\u201d listed one copy for $900. \u201cThe Cat\u2019s Quizzer\u201d listed two books, each over $1,000.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden on Monday avoided mentioning Dr. Seuss in his presidential proclamation for Read Across America Day, which is celebrated on the author\u2019s birthday. Meanwhile, a school district in Virginia ordered its teachers to stop the national reading day with Seuss because of \u201cstrong racial undertones\u201d in some of his books.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRealizing that many schools continue to celebrate \u2018Read Across America Day\u2019 in partial recognition of Dr. Seuss\u2019 birthday, it is important for us to be cognizant of research that may challenge our practice in this regard,\u201d said a Feb. 26 announcement by Loudoun County Public Schools, one of the nation\u2019s most affluent school districts. \u201cAs we become more culturally responsive and racially conscious, all building leaders should know that in recent years there has been research revealing radical undertones in the books written and the illustrations drawn by Dr. Seuss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Seuss books leaped onto Amazon\u2019s top 10 bestselling list on Wednesday, a day after the publisher announced it was yanking six books from the catalog over alleged racist and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274687,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/book-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Dr. Seuss Books Soar To Amazon\u2019s Top 10 List After \u2018Cancellation\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/book-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Dr. Seuss Books Soar To Amazon\u2019s Top 10 List After \u2018Cancellation\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}