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In the Times, there's an article-et about the Newberry and Caldecott awards for this year. I'm bored, so I check them out. This one, I think I have to get for Ana. This is her life - windows, dinosaurs, naps - it's perfect!
I'll agree, what I can see of the artwork isn't exactly my style, but I can overlook that for a good enough book.
Yes, this is going to be another edition of Stupid Amazon Reviews.
Congratulations to the author on a wonderful story.The story in this book about the window, the little girl and her grandparents is beautiful. It did not deserve to be part of a mess of scribbles or an inter-racial propaganda. I have done numerous programs with preschool children who would have easily made better pictures for that story.
Okay. Fair complaint: Picking on the artwork. Even if it were Mona Lisa style artwork, you're perfectly allowed to dislike it.
Unfair complaint: OMG! The kid is mixed race! And so are the relatives! OH NOES!!!! It's an agenda, and it RUINS THE BOOK (along with the artwork).
You? Need to shut the fuck up. Say it with me now: Showing people isn't promoting an agenda. There's nothing wrong with being biracial, and saying that isn't promoting an agenda. There's nothing wrong in having a book featuring a mixed-race family that doesn't actively, uh... promote an agenda (which tends to be "There's nothing wrong with us" anyway, which is a fairly innocuous agenda, as agendas go).
Fucking idiot.
I'll agree, what I can see of the artwork isn't exactly my style, but I can overlook that for a good enough book.
Yes, this is going to be another edition of Stupid Amazon Reviews.
Congratulations to the author on a wonderful story.The story in this book about the window, the little girl and her grandparents is beautiful. It did not deserve to be part of a mess of scribbles or an inter-racial propaganda. I have done numerous programs with preschool children who would have easily made better pictures for that story.
Okay. Fair complaint: Picking on the artwork. Even if it were Mona Lisa style artwork, you're perfectly allowed to dislike it.
Unfair complaint: OMG! The kid is mixed race! And so are the relatives! OH NOES!!!! It's an agenda, and it RUINS THE BOOK (along with the artwork).
You? Need to shut the fuck up. Say it with me now: Showing people isn't promoting an agenda. There's nothing wrong with being biracial, and saying that isn't promoting an agenda. There's nothing wrong in having a book featuring a mixed-race family that doesn't actively, uh... promote an agenda (which tends to be "There's nothing wrong with us" anyway, which is a fairly innocuous agenda, as agendas go).
Fucking idiot.
