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"A well-developed, fully responsive, free readership is the most powerful force for personal and social change." from Read for Your Life by Joseph Gold
This book for children is the kind that challenges conservative grow-ups to grow up. The many awards it earned can show how the book is worthy of open discussion and possible personal and social change thereafter. One may think that it is not a school library's poisition to "push a political agenda" -- but what we have taken for granted, namely traditional family, is also an agenda. This is a book that children should read and think about in relation to other possibilities and agendas. It should be in our libraries.
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hcheu, November 11, 2008
"A well-developed, fully responsive, free readership is the most powerful force for personal and social change." from Read for Your Life by Joseph GoldThis book for children is the kind that challenges conservative grow-ups to grow up. The many awards it earned can show how the book is worthy of open discussion and possible personal and social change thereafter. One may think that it is not a school library's poisition to "push a political agenda" -- but what we have taken for granted, namely traditional family, is also an agenda. This is a book that children should read and think about in relation to other possibilities and agendas. It should be in our libraries.
(18 of 26 readers found this comment helpful)