Dr Seuss books take over Amazon’s bestseller list

Dr Seuss books take over Amazon’s bestseller list

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Dr Seuss Enterprises announced this week that six books written by the children’s author will no longer be published due to the ‘hurtful and wrong’ ways in which color characters are portrayed.

Dr. Seuss Books has now topped Amazon’s bestseller list and ranks nine of the top ten books on the market.

No. 1? “The Cat in the Hat”, followed by “One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish” and “Oh, the places you will go!”

None of the discontinued books appear on Amazon’s list. So, where did they go?

First in the hands of fans

The six books – “And to Think That I Saw It in Mulberry Street”, “If I Ran the Zoo”, “McElligot’s Pool”, “On Beyond Zebra!”, “Scrambled Eggs Super!” And “The Cat’s Quizzer” “- quickly sold out by bookstores like Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

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Although dr. Seuss Enterprises has not announced the strike of other books, fans and collectors seem to be stockpiling.

And it does not cost them much. Green Eggs and Ham, for example, sells for just under $ 5 on Amazon.

Dr. Seuss books currently make up about half of Amazon’s top 50 best-selling books.

Then, to the corners of the internet

The books sell for $ 4,000 on eBay.

On Amazon, copies of “If I Ran the Zoo” start at $ 939 and climb to $ 5,000.

‘The Cat’s Quizzer’ can be your own for $ 875 – or for $ 1600, if you can handle a book cover with ‘very modest rubbing’.

One listing on eBay – five of the six discontinued books for $ 2,500 – was viewed an average of 63 times per hour.

The books that were discontinued almost immediately became rare collectibles, which at the same time sparked controversy over the company’s decision to publish.

The books portray harmful stereotypes

The terminated books are not entirely deviations in Dr. Seuss’s career.
Since his days at Dartmouth College, he has been producing racist and anti-Semitic work. Dr. Seuss’ history of harm is longer than some think, as they portray black boxers as gorillas and tend toward harmful Jewish stereotypes.
In a 2019 study, researchers found that almost all color characters from 50 books had orientalist characteristics – that is, offensive depictions of Asian and Asian characters.
6 Dr Seuss books will no longer be published because they portray people in 'hurtful and wrong' ways

Dr. Seuss Enterprises writes in a statement that it worked with a panel of experts, including educators, to review the author’s titles and decide on strikes.

“The cessation of sales of these books is only part of our commitment and our broader plan to ensure that Dr. Seuss Enterprises’ catalog represents and supports all communities and families,” the company wrote.

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