My favorites were The Cat in The Hat (of course), Green Eggs and Ham, The Lorax, Horton Hears A Who, and The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. It was then that I started reading his books, and surprising myself, I rather enjoyed them. For someone who loves anything silly, that was right up my alley. Seuss with fun activities such as wearing crazy mismatched socks, eating green eggs and ham, and dressing up as The Cat in the Hat. At the preschools where I had taught, they celebrated a whole week of Dr. His book was also read by Michelle Obama on Read Across America Day and President Barack Obama, who read Green Eggs and Ham. ![]() Read Across America Day was established in 1998 as a way of encouraging childhood reading, and coincides with Theodor Seuss Geisel’s birthday (more on this below). Despite that, I never read any of them, because at one glance, I felt they were just too ‘wordy’ to be read to children, that was, until I started teaching preschool here in the US, where I noticed how popular he was, especially during Read Across America Day. It was only later in life that I started noticing his books because of its catchy covers. I grew up with Peter & Jane and Sweet Valley High. Seuss was never part of our reading material growing up, in school or at home. However, growing up in Malaysia, I neither knew nor heard of him when I was a kid. I’m an Asian mom of two, a lover of books and a big fan of Dr. (Snapshot image from YouTube video: Patrick’s Reads) Revised image (on the left) from And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street (Image from NY Times) From The Cat Quizzer: Paired with the question is the offensive image of a yellow-skinned man wearing an Asian conical hat. (Image from National Post) If I Ran The Zoo: describes locals “wear their eyes at a slant”. It also shows the “Eskimo Fish” in parkas. (Image from National Post) In McElligot’s Pool, the word “Eskimo” is used to describe a type of fish from the North Pole. ![]() ![]() In On Beyond Zebra, it calls a “Nazzim of Bazzim,” which is a man who appears to be of Middle Eastern descent riding on a camel-like animal. In If I Ran the Zoo, there were two shirtless, shoeless African men, wearing grass skirts. Reason? And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, in it was a character described as ‘A Chinese man (was previously ‘Chinaman’) who eats with sticks (illustration showed a Chinese man with two lines for his eyes, holding a pair of chopsticks and a bowl of rice, and wears clogs. The books are: And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, If I Ran the Zoo, McElligot’s Pool, On Beyond Zebra!, Scrambled Eggs Super!, The Cat’s Quizzer. Seuss Enterprises released a statement on their website explaining their decision to stop publishing these books, citing that they “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.” WARNING: Content might be sensitive to some.
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