From: Monica Edinger <monicaedinger>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:42:00 -0400

On 6/27/05, Judith Ridge wrote: My
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I must admit I was pretty dismissive at first of this book because of the title, but figured I needed to read it anyway because it was so clearly the sort of thing attractive to many of my 4th grade boys. So I read it and can totally see why Judith uses it as she does (and now have it in my classroom library at school.)

A new picturebook which features many of the...um...aformentioned topics... is Meg Rosoff and Sophie Blackall's MEET WILD BOARS. I think it is a hoot, but know that there are others who feel very differently.

Moving to a different medium, I can think of films where tthe gratuitous use of scatology, sex, and violence was completely off-putting and others where none of it felt gratuitous at all, but rather funny, appropriately disturbing, and/or moving. Seems pretty much the same situation as ours here.

Monica
Received on Wed 29 Jun 2005 09:42:00 AM CDT