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Title: Racist. Not recommended.
Review: I bought this to give to my niece for Christmas but it contains several highly racist bits as the boy travels to different countries to collect animals for his zoo. He goes to Asia where he meets "helpers who all wear their eyes at a slant" (accompanied by WWII propoganda-style caricatures of Asians). When he goes to Africa the animal he captures is held aloft by two tribal Africans illustrated in the typical minstrel show/early 20th century racist exaggerated style. And he goes to Russia to collect a bird "whose headski is redski and belly is blueski."Yes, the book was originally printed in 1950 and maybe it was a less enlightened time and my niece is going to encounter society's racial stereotypes soon enough. But I'm not going to be the one to introduce them to her.
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