This webpage discusses the contents of one of the six books that Dr. Seuss Enterprises withdrew from print on March 2, 2021. An overview discussion is here.

In "On Beyond Zebra!" (1955), the narrator enlightens his young friend, who is learning to spell by saying "The A is for Ape. And the B is for Bear," and so on "through to Z is for Zebra." The narrator introduces his own additions to the alphabet, each of which is used to spell the name of some imaginative animal.

Since the focus here is on the animals themselves, not on their distant homes, there aren't many instances where the human natives of those lands are shown as illustrations of how exotic those places are; looking at the other five books, that seems to be the main thing that the publishers found to be reason to take them out of print. There were a couple in this book, though, like the Nazzim of Bazzim, who travels on this Spazzim (spelled with the narrator's new letter Spazz).

The other is this musician playing a difficult instrument called the o'Grunth to lure a Flunnel (spelled with the letter Flunn) from his tunnel.

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new 1 March 2022