Banned Books Awareness: Dr. Seuss

We all grew up with the lyrical children’s books by Theodor Seuss Geisel, otherwise known as the immortal Dr. Seuss. His imaginative characters and trisyllabic meter rhymes gave us bestselling books like Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, and One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish.

He is such a beloved figure in children’s literature, and writing in general, that in honor of Geisel’s birthday, March 2 has been adopted as the annual date for National Read Across America Day, an initiative created by the National Education Association.

So how, you may ask, could such a beloved man as Dr. Seuss be on the banned books list?

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