![]() ![]() The patron recommended the book be removed, and requested the Toronto Public Library not only apologize to Greater Toronto Area fathers but pay damages resulting from the book's violent message. "The complaint was that it was violent and encouraged children to be violent with their fathers," Vi ckery Bowles, the Toronto Public Library’s director of collections management, told CTV News Channel on Tuesday. Seuss was one of seven books that patrons have asked Toronto Public Library to remove from its collection over the past year.Ī library patron asked the library's materials review committee to pull "Hop on Pop," a children's classic written in 1963, because of the book's violent themes. ![]()
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