Tag: Philip Nel

  • Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: Exploring Dr. Seuss’s Racial Imagination Children’s Literature Volume 42, 2014 pages 71-98 DOI: 10.1353/chl.2014.0019 Philip Nel, Distinguished Professor of English Kansas State University In 1955, Dr. Seuss and William Spaulding—director of Houghton Mifflin’s educational division—stepped into the publisher’s elevator at 2 Park Street in Boston. As Seuss’s biographers…

  • Obamafiction for Children: Imagining the Forty-Fourth U.S. President Children’s Literature Association Quarterly Volume 35, Number 4 (Winter 2010) E-ISSN: 1553-1201 Print ISSN: 0885-0429 pages 334-356 Philip Nel, Professor of English Kansas State University In a column published five days after the 2008 election, journalist Jason Whitlock said of the president-elect’s life: “His is a tale…