Chaos ensued. Despite the high-pitched protestations of the home’s pet fish, the cat would not leave. “'But I like to be here, oh I like it a lot,’ said the cat in the hat to the fish in the ...

Fifty years after Nancy Larrick’s famous “All-White World of Children’s Books” (1965) asked where were the people of color in literature ... “Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: ...

The eponymous Cat in the Hat, a new scholarly book argues ... and only 13 percent were written by people of color—even though more than half of the United States’ school-age population ...