<div dir="ltr">I'm in a discussion group with Seuss' biographer and here's a snippet of what he says on the topic. It made me feel a little better.<div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(5,5,5);font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,system-ui,".SFNSText-Regular",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(240,242,245)">"Seuss and race are complicated, to be sure. His work can be racially insensitive, even as I don't believe Seuss himself was racist. But his white privilege definitely shows--he falls way too easily for stereotypes and tropes when it comes to drawing people/animals representing the foreign or exotic. It's on par with work from others at the time, but that doesn't make it any less jarring."</span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(5,5,5);font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,system-ui,".SFNSText-Regular",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(240,242,245)"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(5,5,5);font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,system-ui,".SFNSText-Regular",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(240,242,245)">Andrea Ross</span></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(5,5,5);font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,system-ui,".SFNSText-Regular",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(240,242,245)">Salt Creek School, Elmhurst</span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 9:53 AM Pres Elect via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Thank You! You have given me great examples to share with Veronica,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thank you again!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Mary Jo</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 6:59 AM Kelley Roganowicz <<a href="mailto:roganok@rps205.com" target="_blank">roganok@rps205.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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I haven't been asked to remove them. I work in a dual-language building, and his books are extremely popular. I have a display of them on top of my picture book shelves, and my kindergarten and first grade students have been checking them out all week.</div>
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<b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 3, 2021 9:02 PM<br>
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<span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:21px">The President (</span><strong dir="auto">Veronica Defazio )</strong><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:21px">of Illinois Library Association is
being interviewed about the controversy with Dr Seuss? With six of his books not being published because of racism.</span>
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<div style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody"><a href="https://us-east-2.protection.sophos.com?d=nytimes.com&u=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMS8wMy8wMi9ib29rcy9kci1zZXVzcy1tdWxiZXJyeS1zdHJlZXQuYW1wLmh0bWw=&i=NWJmNDJmMTFkNGQ5ZGYxNmQ1YTI0OWQy&t=WENhZ2MxK2ljcVpoaWtQZTViRXlZcVRreFRuM2VTbHlOL3NoeHkvNUE4TT0=&h=6677100c0c7d439692f1447f99754afd" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/books/dr-seuss-mulberry-street.amp.html</a></div>
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<div dir="auto" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">Veronica reached out to me to get info about schools.</div>
<div style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">My question is have you been asked to remove them or anything else.</div>
<div style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">I would like to Veronica information from the school side.</div>
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</blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Mary Jo Matousek</div><div>AISLE President-Elect 2020-2021</div><div>Preselect@Aisled.org</div><div>630-254-7770</div><div>Member of REAL(<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap">Real Active Energetic Librarian) Chapter</span></div><div><img src="https://drive.google.com/a/aisled.org/uc?id=1y68uzhGwrjlrkCNehgE48LV4xyMq_4xg&export=download" width="200" height="70"></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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