Given incentive from school boards, publishers could do as well with primers." In bookstores anyone can buy brighter, livelier books featuring strange and wonderful animals and children who behave naturally, i.e., sometimes misbehave. All feature abnormally courteous, unnaturally clean boys and girls. "In the classroom boys and girls are confronted with books that have insipid illustrations depicting the slicked-up lives of other children. Writer John Hershey delineated the problem in a 1954 article in Life magazine: Consequently, these boring characters impeded children from learning how to read and advance their skill level. The problem: Dick and Jane were boring, and educators and parents knew it. Seuss (real name: Theodor Geisel) was working as a children's book author and illustrator, a popular primer for young children involved the story of two characters named Dick and Jane.
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