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7 comments:
This paragraph cracks me up:
"Authors of children’s books sometimes sneak in a single touchy word or paragraph, leaving librarians to choose whether to ban an entire book over one offending phrase."
I like to think of my favorite children's book authors sitting around puzzling over, not the book's plot or character development, but how they can sneak the word "boob" into the text.
So I'm a big kiddie librarian geek and I'm on the CCBC.net listserv and the librarians are FREAKING OUT about this. I don't think I've read so many posts containing the words scrotum in my life!
Oh and Annie, I love your linking. It made my day :)
I think they found all five of the Republican librarians in the country and interviewed them for this story. It was sooo not balanced!
The article author also made the book author sound like a total nut--"the word [scrotum] is just so delicious." Uhhhh, I can think of at least two dozen adjectives I'd use to describe scrotum before I'd use delicious.
The author should have stuck with the much more child friendly "nut-sack." There's nothing as offensive as using medical terminology. Ugh.
Finally the path has been laid for the YA book I have in the works: "Nancy Drew: the Case of the Haunted Labia"
LOL. Oh, Meridith, how happy you've made me.
Ditto to Andi- Meridith and the Haunted Labia have made my day!
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