A statue of author Theodor Seuss Geisel stands in the Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden, after the company set up to preserve the deceased author's legacy announced that six of his children's books will no longer be published because they contain racist and insensitive imagery, in his birthplace of Springfield, Massachusetts, US, March 2, 2021.
The books - "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street," "If I Ran the Zoo," "McElligot's Pool," "On Beyond Zebra!" "Scrambled Eggs Super!" and "The Cat's Quizzer" - are among more than 60 books written by Dr. Seuss, the pen name of the American writer and illustrator Theodor Geisel, who died in 1991.
The books, originally published between 1937 and 1976, contain numerous caricatures of Asian and Black people that incorporate stereotypes that have been criticised as racist.
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