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From: sully_at_sully-writer.com
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 08:51:14 -0700
What I would like to see are more children's stories portraying famili es that are called the "working poor." The kind of people depicted in adult nonfiction works like Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed and David K. Shipler's The Working Poor: Invisible in America . The se are the people who clean the hotel rooms where we stay, serve the meals and wash the dishes at the restaurants where we eat, stock the shelves and man the cash registers at the places where we shop.
When possible, I've made a point of traveling on Greyhound buses the l ast couple of years to save money, be more "green," and to deny the gr eedy airline industry some business. It's been an eye-opening experience tr aveling by bus. You see a whole other side of America, one I don't depicted much in children's books.
Edward T. Sullivan, Rogue Librarian Author, The Ultimate Weapon : The Race to Develop the Atomic Bomb (Holiday House, 2007) Vi sit my web site, http://www.sully-w riter.com Visit my blog, Rogue Librarian: All About Books and Readin g http://sullywriter.wordpress .com Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/sullywriter
Received on Fri 13 May 2011 08:51:14 AM CDT
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 08:51:14 -0700
What I would like to see are more children's stories portraying famili es that are called the "working poor." The kind of people depicted in adult nonfiction works like Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed and David K. Shipler's The Working Poor: Invisible in America . The se are the people who clean the hotel rooms where we stay, serve the meals and wash the dishes at the restaurants where we eat, stock the shelves and man the cash registers at the places where we shop.
When possible, I've made a point of traveling on Greyhound buses the l ast couple of years to save money, be more "green," and to deny the gr eedy airline industry some business. It's been an eye-opening experience tr aveling by bus. You see a whole other side of America, one I don't depicted much in children's books.
Edward T. Sullivan, Rogue Librarian Author, The Ultimate Weapon : The Race to Develop the Atomic Bomb (Holiday House, 2007) Vi sit my web site, http://www.sully-w riter.com Visit my blog, Rogue Librarian: All About Books and Readin g http://sullywriter.wordpress .com Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/sullywriter
Received on Fri 13 May 2011 08:51:14 AM CDT
