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LITTLE BROWN KOKO HAS FUN LITTLE BROWN KOKO HAS FUN book OR search current auctions Auction History Result 4g0652 LITTLE BROWN KOKO HAS FUN 2nd edition hardcover book 1945 illustrations by Dorothy Wagstaff! Date Sold 5/14/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Vintage Hardcover Book (measures 8" x 10 3/4" [20 x 27 cm]; 96 pages) (Learn More) Little Brown Koko Has Fun, the 1945 Blanche Seal Hunt illustrated children's book (with illustrations by Dorothy Wagstaff) featuring stories about a small black African American child. Note that this series of stories began in 1935 in Household Magazine, and it immediately became extremely popular and there were 197 monthly stories! They were collected into many books that sold over 600,000 copies. But this series was always controversial. Some black people saw it as presenting blacks in a positive way, and by 1935 standards, that was mostly true, but over the years, the negative aspects of the books (and the stereotypes they perpetuated) caused increasing problems. In the 1950s, the NAACP insisted on changes in the books that were made, and in 1972, there was a major controversy in a school in Waterloo, Iowa when a junior high teacher read a book aloud to her class as she had for a decade, and it resulted in many arrests and the teacher did not teach for the rest of the year. Blanche Seal Hunt passed away in 1973 and this series of books has been relegated to history, and is little talked about today, except in a historical context. Artist: Dorothy Wagstaff Important Added Info: Note that we have pictured the front cover, the title page, and the interior page that shows the publishing information, and one or more interior 2-page spreads. Condition: good. Learn More about condition grades 
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