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The Grinch

Today it’s about the First of Octember and last week it should have been A Great Day For UP as it was National Reading Day. However, it was turned into a Wacky Wednesday when a Grinch librarian from Cambridgeport Elementary School became the personification of a liberal elitist snow-flake! It sounds like this Yertle the Turtle, perhaps also known now as “Marian the Librarian” was reading the Sleep Book as she got her degree in library science. (I am betting that she matriculated at Wellesley, as Berkeley is much too far from Massachusetts.)

For those of you not familiar with this situation, in honor of National Reading Day (Happy Birthday To You), Melania Trump donated books to one school in each state. She said that she had read “Oh the Places You Will Go” to her son over and over, and her enclosed note said, “Please remember that you are the future of America, and you can accomplish anything that you set your mind to.”

I Can Read With My Eyes what The Sneetcher wrote to Melania Trump after FLOTUS gave the school a gift of some books by Dr. Seuss. (BTW it also took me a little while to figure out “FLOTUS”, but The Thinks You Can Think can allow one to figure it out!) Even though I Can Read With My Eyes Shut sometimes, I would not have predicted the audacious arrogance of The Fox in Socks as she rejected the books. She apparently had A Wocket In Her Pocket or a bee in her bonnet as she wrote, “We have plenty of resources, and do not need these books!”

Daisy Head-Mayzie who apparently felt that she knew best – better than the school and the school district when she had neither the authority nor the permission to speak for either – then followed with an unprovoked slam on the White House and Betsy DeVos, the Secretary of Education.

The One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish then proceeded to say that Dr. Seuss was a racist. Imagine that! Dr. Seuss who has written over fifty-one children’s books is a racist! I was certainly glad that Thidwick the Big Heart was able to enlighten me on this. Mind you, I realize that You’re Only Old Once but I had never realized this, as I was reading multiple Dr. Seuss books to my children in the past and now continue to read them to my grandchildren. FYI my favorite Dr. Seuss book is Horton Hears a Who and to me it is the antithesis being racial. My young granddaughter’s favorite is Mr. Brown Can Go Moo – Can You? Now granted there is a color in the title, but to say that this is a racial book is laughable.

What makes this even more amazing is that The Lorax dressed up as The Cat In The Hat to read Green Eggs And Ham to kindergarteners and first graders on the author’s birthday in 2015 (for those non-believers look at the pictures on the Internet). And as if to celebrate The Cat In The Hat Comes Back, both Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have been photographed reading Dr. Seuss books to children during the time that he was president. Hooray For Diffendoofer Day!

If I Ran The Circus or If I Ran The Zoo, I would not say, Come Over To My House to this librarian, but rather would give her the boot (The Foot Book), and say, “You do not belong In A People House” (a school) and “Will You Please Go Now.”

BTW I used 31 titles of children’s books written by Dr. Seuss in this piece, and still haven’t decided What Pet Should I Get . . . Oops, 32!

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