From: Nancy Silverrod <nsilverrod>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 13:22:34 -0800

Many children are aware of 12 step programs, through a parent or older sibling's participation, and in a small town with not much else to do, it adds to the humor that there are enough of them to provide Lucky with a job cleaning up after them and pondering the possibility of a Higher Power to solve her worries.

The first chapter was a very humorous hook to a book I was not expecting to like from reading the cover flap -- and by the time I was done reading it, it was my personal Newbery choice.

If we are denying children exposure to a wonderful book based on the use of one anatomically correct word, I think we are doing them a great disservice. Let's have the guts to stand up for good books; our colleagues have done it over the years, and we can continue to do it now.



Nancy Silverrod, Librarian San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin St. San Francisco, CA 94102 415-557-4417 nsilverrod at sfpl.org

  Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. -James Russell Lowell, poet, editor, and diplomat (1819-1891)
Received on Tue 06 Feb 2007 03:22:34 PM CST