In 1989, a group of parents in Northern California demanded that their children’s elementary school take Dr. Seuss’s book “The Lorax” off its list of required reading, decrying its environmentally conscious perspective. Today, the book-ban battle rages on.
,” by the New York Public Library, the rumpus about “The Lorax” is at first bewildering. Dr. Seuss—Theodor Geisel—deemed it his best book. Schools across the country assigned it. Mrs. Pate’s class at the Pepper Pike School, in Ohio, sent the author new endings. “I planted that seed, / It was so very dry,” Robby Price, a third grader, wrote. “Then all of a sudden, / It grew 8 miles high.”
There were other Loraxes, too. In 1972, Christopher D. Stone, a law professor at the University of Southern California, argued for granting trees a legal voice. “I am quite seriously proposing that we give legal rights to forests, oceans, rivers and other so-called ‘natural objects,’ ” he wrote, in “Should Trees Have Standing?,” an article that was cited, that same year, in a Supreme Court dissent, and helped galvanize the environmental movement.
“I drew a Lorax and he was obviously a Lorax,” Geisel said. “Doesn’t he look like a Lorax to you?” But, in 1989, to Bill and Judith Bailey, the founders of a logging-equipment business in Laytonville, the Lorax looked like an environmental activist. “Papa, we can’t cut trees down,” their eight-year-old son, Sammy, said after reading the book, in which a “Super-Axe-Hacker” whacks “four Truffula Trees at one smacker.
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of “The Lorax,” an occasion that passed with little fanfare, Dr. Seuss himself having been made into something of a thneed in the latest round of book battles. Earlier this year, on Geisel’s birthday, his estatethat it would no longer publish six of his lesser-known books, in the wake of criticism that they contain racist caricatures.
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