I\u2019m writing to correct a misleading piece of information in the April article \u201cExiling Dr. Seuss.\u201d The writer states that \u201cthe company that publishes Dr. Seuss\u2019s books decided to pull six of the late author\u2019s titles from its publication list.\u201d This is inaccurate. The decision was not made by the publisher, Random House Children\u2019s Books, but by Seuss Enterprises, which manages the licensing rights on behalf of the late author\u2019s estate. Those literary managers asked Random House Children\u2019s to discontinue publishing those six titles, and the publisher honored their request. These days when there is so much talk of publishers and other institutions succumbing to \u201ccancel culture,\u201d I believe it\u2019s important to clarify that it was not the publisher who decided the books\u2019 racist imagery made them were unworthy of publication\u2014it was the author\u2019s own heirs and representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That point aside, the article does an excellent job of presenting what I believe is a thoughtful and informed decision by the Norfolk Public Library to remove the books from the children\u2019s section but maintain them\u2014with annotation\u2014as part of the library\u2019s historical collection. That decision also protects the books themselves; more than one public library has discovered that their copies of these six Seuss titles have been checked out and vanished, only to reappear on eBay priced at $1,000 or more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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