The+Lorax


 * 1) **Name:** The Lorax
 * 2) **Author:** Dr. Seuss
 * 3) **Description:** This book is about the environment. The Once-ler got greedy cutting down trees to produce Thneeds, which led to a run down city with no trees or plants.
 * 4) **Genre:** Fiction
 * 5) **Situations in the book that are questionable:** The focus on the logging part giving loggers a bad name and criminalizes the foresting industry.
 * 6) **General public’s opinion:** According to Amazon.com parents rave about this book. They love the message it has and they love the characters and fun story (Amazon).
 * 7) **History of censorship:** In 1988 the book was banned in some schools in a district in California because they thought that the book was unfair to the logging industry. Also, the line “I hear that things are just as bad as Lake Erie,” was removed 14 years after the story was published when two research associates from the Ohio Sea Grant Program wrote to Seuss telling him about the Lake Erie clean up project (Wikepedia). Anti-Environmentalist groups such as the Wise Use Movement have worked to ban The Lorax and have been successful in removing it from the mandatory reading list in public schools.
 * 8) **Appropriate developmental age:** 5-7 (ARbookfind.com)

Morganthaler, D. (2012). //Lorax reflects shift in environmental responsibility.// Retreived from: http://www.lahstalon.org/opinions/lorax-reflects-shift-in-environmental-responsibility/

The Lorax By: Dr. Seuss

The Lorax lives among the trees and a little creature comes along and starts cutting down trees and using them for different things. The Lorax convinces him to stop cutting down trees.

The part that is questionable is that it portrays the forestry industry in a negative way.

The Lorax was banned from a school in Laytonville, California in 1989

http://drseussbanned.weebly.com/why-was-the-lorax-challenged.htmlhe development age would be upper elementary.