Sales of The Cat in the Hat in Tampa and Indianapolis were nearly 40% higher compared to the rest of the country, during this year’s Seuss Week, with significant jumps also seen in Orlando, Florida (28%), Phoenix (25%) and Charlotte, North Carolina (14%). Valerie Koehler, owner of Blue Willow Bookshop on the west side of Houston, said the calls started rolling in after the coverage on Fox and she spent the better part of March 2 explaining to customers scared that Seuss was being brought down by political correctness that she never carried any of the obscure titles being pulled but would gladly help them order any of the author’s other nearly four dozen books. “And the list that they give just happened to exactly match the list of books that were pulled from the market.” “They said things like, ‘My children each want a copy of this beloved book’,” says Justin Colussy-Estes, store manager of Little Shop of Stories in Decatur, Georgia, of the calls he got following the cancellations. After-market sales boomed for the discontinued titles, with one copy of And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street put up for sale by a collector for $12,500, while other shoppers hit up their local bookstores hoping for a chance to grab a copy. They can thank the outrage for that: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy posted a video of himself reading all of Green Eggs and Ham on social media Senator Ted Cruz is selling signed copies of the book for campaign donations, raising $125,000 in the first day of the effort-he credited “ lefties losing their minds” for the quick cash.
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