While six children’s books by Dr. Seuss will no longer be printed because of “harmful and wrong” portrayals of people, the titles still will be available to readers across Butler County for the time being.

The books — “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” “If I Ran a Zoo,” “McElligot’s Pool,” “Scrambled Egg Super!” and “The Cat’s Quizzer” — no longer will be published, Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced in a statement Tuesday.

In the statement, released on Dr. Seuss’s birthday, the company said its mission is to support all children and families with messages of “hope, inspiration, inclusion and friendship.” To that end, the decision was made to cease publication of those six titles, saying “these books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.”

While these books will no longer be commercially available, libraries across the county will continue to loan out the books for the immediate future. South Butler Community Library, Mars Area Public Library and Evans City Public Library all plan on continuing to loan out the books without any changes. Butler Area Public Library said it plans to review each book and determine their future on a book-by-book basis.

Book Nook, a bookstore on North Main Street in Butler, said it only had two of the books in stock at the time the statement was made and has since taken those titles off its shelves. Other local bookstores, The Little Green Bookstore in Harmony and Readers’ Paradise in Oakland Township, did not have the books in stock when the announcement was made.