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From: Emmaattic_at_aol.com <Emmaattic>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 12:24:53 EDT
In a message dated 6/22/05 12:14:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Itsillustration at aol.com writes:
Because I knew kids would find it > funny. I was right.
***** I believe this is what Mr. Hopkins is saying. Give kids poop and they will think it's funny. Of course. Small children will giggle over any words about farts, poop and boogers. It doesn't take a book, or an author, or an illustrator to accomplish this. It can be the kid next door. BECAUSE it is funny, or BECAUSE they want to read about poop and sex and drugs, do we give it to them. This is a ploy by the author and illustrator to SELL books. Simple as that. It's a shame. Our children deserve richness of character, fantasy, STORY. We are selling out. Even in the Horn Book magazine, they had a wonderful, wonderful issue on poetry (May/June 2005) and among the brilliant poets and poems from sonnets to war poems to clever wordplay poems to humorous, they had a poem with phrases such as "....booger flicker/smelly pooper/ heiny picker...." Most kids in 3rd grade could've written this. I was not appalled as much as disappointed. We should all, ALL, strive for better.
Emma p.s. How are poops and farts ever "tastefully done."
Received on Wed 22 Jun 2005 11:24:53 AM CDT
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 12:24:53 EDT
In a message dated 6/22/05 12:14:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Itsillustration at aol.com writes:
Because I knew kids would find it > funny. I was right.
***** I believe this is what Mr. Hopkins is saying. Give kids poop and they will think it's funny. Of course. Small children will giggle over any words about farts, poop and boogers. It doesn't take a book, or an author, or an illustrator to accomplish this. It can be the kid next door. BECAUSE it is funny, or BECAUSE they want to read about poop and sex and drugs, do we give it to them. This is a ploy by the author and illustrator to SELL books. Simple as that. It's a shame. Our children deserve richness of character, fantasy, STORY. We are selling out. Even in the Horn Book magazine, they had a wonderful, wonderful issue on poetry (May/June 2005) and among the brilliant poets and poems from sonnets to war poems to clever wordplay poems to humorous, they had a poem with phrases such as "....booger flicker/smelly pooper/ heiny picker...." Most kids in 3rd grade could've written this. I was not appalled as much as disappointed. We should all, ALL, strive for better.
Emma p.s. How are poops and farts ever "tastefully done."
Received on Wed 22 Jun 2005 11:24:53 AM CDT
