The Lorax The book talks of the aftermath of wholesale felling of trees. It was claimed by people in the school's area to be unfair to their logging industry. In 2012 it was ranked number 33 among the "Top 100 Picture Books" in a survey published by the American monthly magazine School Library Journal.
Which 1936 children's book was labelled a pacifist manifesto, banned at the time in Spain, burned as propaganda in Nazi Germany, but granted privileged status by Stalin as the only non-communist children's book allowed in Poland?