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"The Cat in the Hat" is racially complicated, inspired by blackface caricature and by actual people of color.
One story of the book's origins is that in 1955, William Spaulding, director of Houghton Mifflin's educational division, thought that Dr. Seuss could solve
the "Why Johnny Can't Read" crisis by writing reading primers that children actually enjoyed reading, instead of Dick and Jane, which children did not enjoy reading.
Listen to native speakers pronounce “Mifflin” in real conversational contexts with synchronized timestamps and subtitles.