No idea how many books Dr. Suess published; thought that I had read them all at least everyone the public library owned. And now someone says these books had racist imagery and supposedly that wasn't noticed except what it was subliminally doing to my young brain, and it's why TPP is such a bigot today. Well, it took long enough for someone to notice, which means If I ran the Zoo wasn't exactly little black sambo. Hard to take some people seriously, but would you could you read them if you understood the culture into which these books were published, and clearly they were works of fiction. Sounds like a teachable moment was discarded along with some out rageously funny ( to a kid learning to read) illustrations and ideas. The one remembered best was the 500 hats of Bartholomew Cubbins.
in The Greenhouse
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