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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Although you can't buy the suppressed eBooks, I just made public library reserves on the two Caldecott honor titles (If I Ran the Zoo and McElligot's Pool), as well as the title issybird recommended in post #1 (And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street).
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I found those three books and another of the suppressed books, Scrambled Eggs Super!, on the Internet Archive.
As it happens, some public libraries are pulling the books from their shelves. However, others are standing firm.
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
I might then say they are terrible eBooks. But unless I have a brain transplant between now and then, I don't expect to become reconciled to suppression.
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Were I stocking a children's library, I wouldn't include any of the six books in question, or at least none of the four that I have seen. I just don't find them all that remarkable. There are far better books out there. I much prefer the books of John Burningham, Gomi Taro, Oliver Jeffers and Shaun Tan to name just several.
However, if they were already in a children's library, I wouldn't remove them. I don't find any of the images "racist" or "harmful". I certainly can't see any child being traumatized by them, especially not if there were plenty of other rich and diverse books in the classroom/library.