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Summary: Children help...
Review: At first I was not sure that this would be a book to read to children. As I read I realized tha it was similar in style of a book that my young son is reading in school. It is perfect for relaying a message to young girls, that it is good to have a close relationship with your mother. Also, it is good for a child to want to be responsible. The color in the book was great. Children can be very drawn in by the vibrant colors.
I would recommend that this book can be used with young children because it givews pleasure to the recognition of African Americans in our society today. Young children need to see themselves represented in literature.
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Summary: Children help...
Review: At first I was not sure that this would be a book to read to children. As I read I realized tha it was similar in style of a book that my young son is reading in school. It is perfect for relaying a message to young girls, that it is good to have a close relationship with your mother. Also, it is good for a child to want to be responsible. The color in the book was great. Children can be very drawn in by the vibrant colors.
I would recommend that this book can be used with young children because it givews pleasure to the recognition of African Americans in our society today. Young children need to see themselves represented in literature.
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Summary: PC Poison
Review: I first came across Ms. Barber's work in a short story my son brought home in a third-grade textbook. Boys were stereotyped as sexist, demeaning, and hostile. I found a copy of this book: more of the same.
While Ms. Barber should be free to publish whatever she wishes to, parents should also be free to keep their eight-year old's from the cross-fire of the feminist gender wars. Ms. Barber puts them right in the middle, slicing through the ego's of young boys with the hostility and malice she attributes to them in her writing.
Boys are more than seven times likely to commit suicide than girls. They're less likely to graduate high school, college, or graduate school. They're much more likely to end up drug addicts or prisoners. Ms. Barber's sexist writings -- falsely portrayed as an affirmative message -- might not be the sole cause of the problem, but they sure don't help.
This book, and Ms. Barber's other writing, is inappropriate for children. Especially boys.
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