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Ross Douthat: Do liberals care if books disappear? Flaws in Dr Seuss and Babar are a reason for a diverse canon, not a good reason to make books go away. Steve Griffin | The Salt Lake Tribune Elementary school children where Cat in the Hat hats as they visit the State Capitol in Salt Lake City Friday March 3, 2017. The UEA (Utah Education Association) sponsored the event to coincide with birthday celebrations for Dr. Seuss. By Ross Douthat | The New York Times   | March 7, 2021, 7:00 p.m. F...

March 6, 2021 From the idealistic liberalism of my high school English teachers, I learned that to try to get rid of offensive literature is the great sin of easily triggered rubes. A special horror at banning books, which usually meant removing them from the curriculum in some rural school district, pervaded our libraries and classrooms. And a particular shame seemed to throb in my teachers’ breasts when they admitted that some books were even targeted — “The Adventures of Huckleberry F...

Now that beloved children’s-book author Dr Seuss is an “outlaw”, according to US House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and conservative pundit Ben Shapiro is stockpiling strategic reserves of If I Ran the Zoo, parents face a desperate conundrum. What can they possibly read to their children? If that paragraph makes no sense, good for you: The Great Seuss Hysteria of 2021 is a faux controversy if there ever was one, worth following only for what it reveals about children’s literature and...

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TulsaKids Magazine Read these titles leading up to the 2021 Inauguration, or year-round January 11, 2021 When my husband and I first met, we were teaching middle school together at Edison Preparatory in Tulsa. I taught 7th grade English, and Matt taught American History. Being so, it is little wonder that we have an affinity for children’s and Young Adult literature about the American government and its major players. We carry many titles on these topics at Eleanor’s Bookshop throughout the...