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Unread 04-03-2021, 01:07 PM
Martin Elster Martin Elster is offline
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Julie, as a child, I knew nothing of Dr. Seuss. My mother sang Hungarian folk songs to my brother and me. I first encountered Dr. Seuss a few years ago, read a couple of the books, and thought they were fun. (I don’t recall which titles they were.) But now I see that Geisel had a darker side (especially the anti-Japanese propaganda he created during WWII). (I wonder if McWhorter knows anything about that side of him.) Now I have zero interest in his books. I thought the topic of this thread might generate some interesting discussion, which it certainly has!

Added in: Having read the Springfield Children’s Literature Festival article, I see that Geisel had grown and transformed. So my interest in him is maybe slightly more than zero now.

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