Richard Scarry's books are problematic because of the reasons you stated, and I think there were issues with ethnic and gender stereotypes as well (similar to i

Richard Scarry's books are problematic because of the reasons you stated, and I think there were issues with ethnic and gender stereotypes as well (similar to issues with Dr. Seuss). He updated some of them in the 90s to reflect changing mores, but I don't know if those efforts reached all of them.