Seuss’s wonderful journey starting on Mulberry Street and ending with Oh, the Places You’ll Go. Seuss Enterprises, in conjunction with the Springfield Museums, is thrilled to honor Theodor Seuss Geisel’s legacy as a proud citizen of Springfield and as a children’s book author who has delighted and educated children for generations. Seuss Enterprises, which developed the museum in partnership with the Springfield Museums, celebrated the new mural when it was unveiled in January 2018:ĭr.
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Museum officials soon decided to replace the mural with a collection of other Seuss characters. "We are presently exploring ways to help guide parents and teachers in addressing this issue with children and pupils." "As a museum, we do not alter or edit an artist’s work," the museum said in an October 2017 statement. The authors said that at the very least, the museum needed to " provide context for this hurtful painting." In protest of the mural, they canceled a planned appearance at a museum event.Īt the time, a museum spokesperson said its leadership tried to meet with the authors about their concerns, but they declined. with chopsticks, a pointed hat, and slanted slit eyes." Three well-known children's book authors - Mo Willems, Mike Curato and Lisa Yee - issued a scathing public letter about the depiction, calling it a "jarring racial stereotype. Seuss Museum in Springfield replaced a controversial mural there that had depicted a scene from "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street." The mural, and Geisel's book - first published in 1937 - contained a caricature of a Chinese man. The other five other titles that will be permanently shelved are "If I Ran the Zoo," "McElligot's Pool," "On Beyond Zebra!," "Scrambled Eggs Super!" and "The Cat's Quizzer."īooks by Geisel - who was born in 1904 in Springfield, and died in 1991 - have been increasingly criticized for how they depict Asian and Black people.Įarly in 2018, Dr. Seuss books, including "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street," follows months of deliberations. The company said the decision to cease publication and sales of certain Dr.
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Seuss Enterprises, the company that controls Theodor Geisel's books and characters, announced Tuesday - the late author's birthday - that it will stop publishing the titles because the " books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong." Seuss titles - including a well-known children's book set on Mulberry Street in Springfield, Massachusetts - will no longer be published.ĭr.