Banned Books Awareness: “Hop on Pop”

May 4, 2014 R. Wolf Baldassarro 2

It was reported here two years ago (4/30/2012) that Yertle the Turtle was banned as part of a political dispute in British Columbia. Well, the beloved works of Dr. Seuss are once again within the cross-hairs of censors in Canada- this time in Toronto, Ontario. Joining the list of six […]

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Banned Books Awareness: “Yertle the Turtle”

April 30, 2012 R. Wolf Baldassarro 7

For the third time in recent weeks the Banned Books Awareness series once again focuses on some rather disturbing trends from Canada. Incidents of censorship by the border patrol, negative reactions to fiction based on historical documents, and now it seems Dr. Seuss has been branded too political for the […]

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Banned Books Awareness: Dr. Seuss

September 11, 2011 R. Wolf Baldassarro 8

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