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[7] [40] [41] Adam Szetela of Newsweek opined that both the right and the left are "guilty" of banning books, citing the ban of To Kill a Mockingbird in California schools, Dr. Seuss' books being pulled from libraries and bookstores, and videos of liberals burning Harry Potter books. [42]
Since 2001, the American Library Association has posted the top ten most frequently challenged books per year on their website. [4] Using the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century, ALA has also noted banned and challenged classics. [5] The ALA does not claim comprehensiveness in recording challenges.
The ALA revealed in an earlier news release this year that 17 U.S. states challenged more than 100 book titles in 2023. Florida and Texas, by far, challenged the most books in 2023 with a combined ...
American author and illustrator Dr Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904 - 1991) sits at his drafting table in his home office with a copy of his book, 'The Cat in the Hat', La Jolla, California ...
Political cartoon by Dr. Seuss depicting Japanese Americans as sleeper agents ready to attack the United States from within following the attack on Pearl Harbor. While a student at Dartmouth College in the 1920s, Theodor Seuss Geisel drew cartoons for the campus's humor magazine, the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern, some of which contain anti-black racist and anti-Semitic elements [citation needed].
Six children's books written decades ago by Dr. Seuss were pulled from publication because they contain racist and insensitive imagery, the company formed to preserve the deceased author's legacy ...
Banned Books Week is the product of a national alliance between organizations who strive to bring awareness to banned books. [127] Founded by first amendment and library activist Judy Krug and the Association of American Publishers in 1982, the event aims to bring banned books "to the attention of the American public".
Six Dr. Seuss books -- including And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street and If I Ran the Zoo -- will stop being published because of racist and insensitive imagery, the business that ...