The prices of six Dr. Seuss books exploded on eBay after the beloved author’s publisher said it would stop selling them because the Leftist Fascists have decided that they contain “racist” images. Prospective buyers placed bids in the hundreds of dollars Tuesday for vintage copies of the books that were listed for as little as $4.44 last week.
NY Post A 1955 edition of “On Beyond Zebra!” fetched a leading bid of $670 by 10:15 a.m. Eastern time — less than a day after it was put up for auction at a starting price of just $14.99.
A copy of “The Cat’s Quizzer” from 1976 similarly saw its top offer skyrocket to $510 after it was listed for $9.99 on Monday.
An early 1960s copy of “Scrambled Eggs Super!” listed Saturday for just under $8 didn’t get a single bid in its first three days on eBay, but the price jumped to $565 in less than three hours following the news that it would no longer be published.
A “First Book Club Edition” of “If I Ran the Zoo” — which has drawn fire for its offensive caricatures of Asian and African people — received three bids for less than $10 in its first five days on the market before the offer to beat surged to $355 on Tuesday.
A 1947 copy of “McElligot’s Pool” listed for less than five bucks last Friday was recently going for $620, while a 1937 edition of “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street”fetched a $305 bid about an hour after it was listed Tuesday morning.
All six books were also in short supply on Amazon, where third-party sellers are selling collectible editions for thousands of dollars.
Amazon warned buyers that four of the books were out of print with “limited availability.” Only “If I Ran the Zoo” and “McElligot’s Pool” didn’t bear that notice on Tuesday — but the only copies available ran from $920.99 to $4,500.
NY Post Dr. Seuss became the latest target of “cancel culture” Tuesday when six of his children’s books were yanked from publication because of their alleged racism.
President Biden even avoided mentioning Dr. Seuss in the traditional annual presidential proclamation Monday marking “Read Across America Day.”
The company that oversees the publishing of Dr. Seuss’s works said it scrapped the six books — “If I Ran the Zoo,” “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” “McElligot’s Pool,” “On Beyond Zebra!,” “Scrambled Eggs Super!” and “The Cat’s Quizzer’’ — because they “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.”
The move came on what would have been the 117th birthday of the late author — who has traditionally been feted by schools across the country March 2 as part of “Read Across America Day.”
While Dr. Seuss — whose real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel — remains one of the world’s most popular children’s authors three decades after his death, his books have come under fire in recent years for how they portray black people, Asian people and other groups.
Mulberry Street,” the first children’s book Geisel published under his pen name, contains a controversial illustration of an Asian man holding chopsticks and a bowl of rice whom the text called “A Chinese man Who eats with sticks.”
It also describes Asian characters as “helpers who all wear their eyes at a slant” from “countries no one can spell,” notes a 2019 paper on Geisel’s work published in the journal Research on Diversity in Youth Literature.
“If I Ran the Zoo,” for instance, has been panned for depicting Africans as “potbellied” and “thick-lipped,” as one biography of Seuss put it.
“If I Ran the Zoo” also features an Arab chieftain riding a camel.
What a shame.
That Slam I am
That Slam I am
I do not like
That Slam I am
I do not like it
here or there.
I do not like it
anywhere.
I do not like
That Slam I am
Anti-freedom of speech ‘Cancel Culture’ once again strikes at the heart of ‘Freedom Values’ encouraged by degree qualified coward CEO’s afraid to stand strong in defence of ‘Freedom of Speech’ values.
Such CEO’s and their supporting Directors on Boards, including the Chairman, must be identified as being coward traitors of their society for submitting to the evil dictatorship of Socialist ‘Political Correctness’.
There is no place in a ‘Free World’ for anti-freedom of speech coward traitors.
When I first heard that some Seuss books were no longer going to be printed, I was just thinking that those books will become rare and very valuable. Of course, people have to remember that these books were written and printed in a different time. And apparently people back then were much more thick skinned than they are now. So people could get away with saying, writing, or drawing or portraying some things.
I really do think that political correctness has really gotten out of hand! It’s one thing not to be patently offensive, and to try to be nice to people, but it is quite another thing to ban books or literature solely because it might contain objectionable material. Freedom of speech means that even objectionable material has a right to be said and published. And it should be understood in context too. And people have to understand that artistic materials were created in a certain timeframe and in a particular cultural milieu. Certain things were said and done in works of art that might not be said today given the different cultural climate. I accept this.
For example, Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs has some elements in the stories that are rather racist and in some cases just simply exaggerated or inaccurate. But that does not mean that mean that I am going to destroy Burroughs works because he tended to portray Africa inaccurately as a continent mostly of jungles, and native Africans for the most part as savages. I forgive him on that. He was writing in a different time and in a different culture than today. And I am of African descent myself. (BTW, Africa certainly does have rain forests i.e. jungles, but only a small percentage of the continent actually does have this, much of the continent is desert, and savannah lands.) So when I see Tarzan, including portrayals by people such as Johnny Weismueller, based on Burroughs works, I accept them as what they are, products of their time.
I love watching The Three Stooges, but the Stooge shorts often ripped the Japanese, Germans, and sometimes other ethnic groups. But then remember that some of the Stooge shorts were made during the Second World War.
Black people were often depicted as doing menial jobs and were just as often the victims of the Stooges. But then again, EVERYBODY was a victim of the Stooges’ antics. Again context is important. The Stooges often provided black actors with parts and opportunities that were otherwise unavailable to them in most mainstream films. And the Stooges were among the first to break the color barrier and segregation that existed in real life America. And the Stooges themselves, with the exception of Joe DeRita, were Jewish and faced ethnicism and discrimination of their own. That is completely lost on the politically correct crowd.
Steve, my fear is that this is just the beginning of the Left’s plan to rewrite history. The Nazis burned books. We are not that far behind.
Koran good. Dr. Seuss bad.
When I was a kid I would have read anything in preference to Dr.Seusss what a bore!
The Democrats-Communists HATE FREEDOM.
When will the book burning begin all over America?
Cancel culture idiots that are offended by anything that does not strictly conform to crescent communism should emigrate to China or Qatar !
At Amazon, they can be found in the ‘collectibles’ section. The price for one book is listed at $1,500.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/prices-of-dr-seuss-books-skyrocket-after-6-are-canceled