Talk:Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 8 January 2020 and 6 May 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Lexieemegerr.

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Changes I Made
I did some research on this topic and have included the information into the article to bulk it up. I will be creating new sections and reorganizing some of the previous work to help it flow better. You can look at the Sandbox to find the bibliography and draft. (Lexieemegerr (talk) 05:56, 10 May 2020 (UTC))

Removal of the reception section, second paragraph: discussion of racism
The second paragraph of the section reception read: "Dr. Seuss has been accused of using racism in his children’s books. Some of the animals in Dr. Seuss’s more “bestiary books” such as Scrambled Eggs Super!, On Beyond Zebra!, If I Ran the Circus, and Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book can be depicted as “exoticized other[s]”. It is very possible that these characters are based off of Dr. Seuss’s racist views on specific races."

I removed it, as I don't feel that very relevant to the book and a discussion of this subject may work better on the page Dr Seuss instead.

Allie 849 (talk) 22:56, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

removed the Background segment
Removed the Background segment as it provided no relevant information.

This is it.

Background

Theodor Seuss Geisel, more popularly known as Dr. Seuss, published his first children’s book in 1937 after it was rejected 27 times by publishers. His first big success, Cat in the Hat, occurred in 1957; it was instantly received well and was regarded with praise. From there, Dr. Seuss went on to write 45 books for children’s literature including The Lorax, Green Eggs and Ham, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, and Oh, The Places You'll Go!. Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book was his 21st children’s book, following The Sneetches and Other Stories in 1961 and preceding Dr. Seuss's ABC in 1963. In 1993, Random House Home Video released this book from Dr. Seuss Video Classics (which premiered after Hunches in Bunches) on VHS and it was narrated by Madeline Kahn.