![]() Given incentive from school boards, publishers could do as well with primers.' Reacting to this Dr. feature abnormally courteous, unnaturally clean boys and girls.In bookstores, anyone can buy brighter, livelier books featuring strange and wonderful animals and children who behave naturally, i.e., sometimes misbehave. Hersey wrote:- '.In the classroom boys and girls are confronted with books that have insipid illustrations depicting the slicked-up lives of other children. This was known as the'Johnny Can't Read' controversy. In May 1954, Life magazine published a report by John Hersey on illiteracy among school children, which concluded that children were not learning to read because the books that were being offered them were boring. The story behind it is well known but bears retelling. THE CAT IN THE HAT New York, Random House, New York, 1957.ĭr Seuss's breakthrough book. ![]()
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