We have always been at war with Mulberry Street

Ending publication of some obscure books isn't itself that big a deal. But it won't stop there.

Dr. Seuss Enterprises is ending publication of six older, less well-known works by the late children’s author. And that, in and of itself, really isn’t that big a deal. I’ve never even heard of most of them, and the one I did read as a child, And To Think I Saw It On Mulberry Street, didn’t leave that great an impression on me. Some of the illustrations I’ve seen from these books are indeed very cringy in 2021.

If you compare these books’ place in the Dr. Seuss canon to Steven Spielberg’s filmography, they would be the equivalent of Always and 1941. (Actually, I kind of liked 1941, but I seem to be in the minority on that one.)

You can argue that these books are so old they should be in the public domain anyway, but the fact that they won’t be published any longer isn’t the end of the world. There are still printed copies out there which can be traded and around sold.

Um, about that…