The Story of Dr. Dolittle (Tor Classics)

Formative Books (20 books items)

"I devoured all the Dr Dolittle books I could find at the local library, hmm, might add a link to Google Street! Science Fiction for kids - never occurred to me then or since that there was anything politically incorrect about them. But censorship comes in many ugly forms."

Top 10 Politically Incorrect Kids Books (10 books items)

"The books have been accused of racism, due to the usage of derogatory terms for and depiction of certain ethnic groups therein, both written and illustrated. Editions in the United States sometimes had alterations made from the 1960s, but the books went out-of-print in the 1970s. In 1986, to mark the centenary of Lofting’s birth, new editions were published which had such passages rewritten or removed (sometimes called bowdlerisation). Offending illustrations were either removed (and replaced "