The illustrations of Melania Trump's favorite children's author are "steeped in racist propaganda, caricatures, and harmful stereotypes," according to an elementary school librarian who rejected a gift from the first lady.
Trump sent 10 Dr. Seuss books to the Cambridgeport School in Cambridge, Mass., to mark "National Read a Book Day," but librarian Liz Phipps Soeiro told her the school would not be keeping them, the Washington Post reports.
In an open letter, Soeiro thanked the first lady, but she then described Seuss as "a tired and worn ambassador for children’s literature" and suggested 10 alternative children's books.
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