Cat in a spat: Why scrapping Dr Seuss books is not cancel culture On what would have been Dr Seuss’s 117th birthday, plans were announced to halt publishing and licensing six of his books. Mar 07, 2021 · 05:30 pm A copy of "If I Ran The Zoo" by Dr Seuss, which the publisher said will no longer be published. | Brendan McDermid / Reuters Let’s start by putting aside the bugbear that it is even possible to “cancel” children’s author Dr Seuss. As Philip Bump wrote in No one is ‘cancelling’ Dr Seuss. The author, himself, is dead for one thing, which is about as cancelled as a person can get.