From: Michele Missner <missnerm>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 11:54:33 -0600 (CST)

Hope you enjoy this list of unacceptable titles for children's books that were published in _Publisher's Weekly_ via the Akron Beacon Journal.

I know this isn't the subject of the month, but I thought it was appropriate. Michele

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---------- Forwarded message ---------Date: Thu, 11 Dec 97 10:42:53 est From: emissner at meldrum.com To: missnerm at athenet.net, docF94 at hampshire.edu, pmissner at CapAccess.org Subject: for my librarian friends

     From the Akron Beacon Journal:
     
        Publisher's Weekly reports on rejected ideas for children's books.
     Consider, for example, "a travel series told from the point of view of
     a tire."
        Among the titles that were turned down:
     
        *My Master Jesus, about Jesus' fictional dog.
     
        *Chaim the Hanukkah Reindeer, in which the reindeer's antlers were
     drawn in the shape of a menorah.
     
        *Try Not to Stare at the Giants, Honey, described as a "work of
     nonfiction about giantism."
     
        *Mommy Swings, "A primer on manic depression," says PW, although
     the title implies a range of other interpretations.
     
        *My Peg Leg Grandpa, a story about a man who "does tricks with his
     peg leg," then dies and leaves it to his granddaughter.
     
        *The Little Train That Could But Chose Not To, which PW describes
     as "a tale of empowerment for the New Age.
Received on Fri 12 Dec 1997 11:54:33 AM CST