Toronto library denies request to pull Dr. Seuss' 'Hop on Pop'

• By Chandler Friedman, CNN

May 3, 2014 -

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Complaint said "Hop on Pop" encouraged violence against fathers
• The 1963 book uses rhymed words and silly pictures to help children learn to read
• In the book, Pop says, "STOP. You must not hop on Pop."

(CNN) -- "The Catcher in the Rye." "Fifty Shades of Grey." "The Satanic Verses." The protest of controversial books is nothing new, but one particularly sensitive reader in Toronto issued a challenge over something a bit less sensational.

That contentious tome: Dr. Seuss' "Hop on Pop.

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