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[bunnyjadwiga]

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_5king.6161310nov30,0,2885794.story
Children's book outrages parents [The Morning Call]

*sigh*

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[amykb.livejournal.com]

Omar and I were just talking about this book last night--I have it on my shopping list/library list to pick up for Mary.

[tattycat.livejournal.com]

I am very, very glad that nobody seems to be knuckling under to these parents.

[iasmin.livejournal.com]

I suddenly feel obligated to add this book to my children's story book collection. I hope there are more like this.

[iestynapmwg.livejournal.com]

At least the library director isn't caving in to these idiots. Good for her!

[hakerh.livejournal.com]

I am so glad to see that the page of comments I read was mostly along the lines of either chastising the parents for wanting the library to do their job for them, or saying "Sure, go ahead and tell your kids everyone in the world is white, straight, and Christian. That'll *really* help prepare them for the real world."

I can't express enough pleasure for the library staff that are refusing to just smooth things over by taking the book off the shelves, and special bonus points for the person from another library quoted as saying she couldn't believe her library didn't already own a copy, and that that situation would have to be remedied! :)

[icewolf010.livejournal.com]

Oh, for crying out loud.

Cliche time!

This is why you don't judge a book by its cover! Just because she couldn't be bothered to actually look inside the book before she read it to her kid, the library needs to pull it?

As Bill Cosby once said, "Riiiiiiiiiiiiiigggggggghhhhhhhhtttttttt."

[lauradi7.livejournal.com]

It's tempting to ask whether these folks are part of the national conspiracy to make a ruckus over books like this (or this book). A local couple in Lexington, MA (where I live) took it eventually all the way to Federal court (where they lost).They were financially backed (and many people think put up to it) by an organization called variously Article 8, or Mass Resistance or maybe some other name that buses people in to protest having such books in school libraries. It brought us as a town to the attention of the Phelps folks, who came to do their virulent anti-gay protests in front of a couple of churches and the elementary school in question. argh.
It's not a particularly good book. If you're looking for a little kid picture book about same sex partners, I would go for something like "Mama Eat ant yuck"
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or one of the books about lots of different kinds of families that happens to have same-sex parents included in the mix.

[amazon-42.livejournal.com]

I think some parents exist to be outraged, supposedly on behalf of the larvae they raise. I plan to slap these people with very large leather gloves...which....wait, where's the Pennsic shopping list...

(dig..rummage...)

Oh, and yet one more book to buy Nicki. The kid is getting a library to rival mine and so far we think he MIGHT have said "Roomba" once. Or not. He's four months old and it would be one bizarre first word.

And to the Outraged Nitwits:

ATTENTION PARENTS: YOUR CHILDREN THINK AND ARE INDIVIDUALS. THEY ARE NOT CARDBOARD CUTOUTS OR SOMETHING YOU ORDERED FROM WALMART.COM. FOR THE MOST PART, THEY DO NOT LIKE DESKS AND WILL NOT LET YOU PICK THEIR FRIENDS, HOBBIES, OR EVEN FAVORITE FOOD. GET OVER IT.

[bunnyjadwiga.livejournal.com]

There's also a sequel called "King and King and Family"