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>Books for Unfit Mothers
>At ALA last year I screamed intemperately at a perfectly nice young woman from Ten Speed Press for publishing this, now it looks like I'll have to go after HarperCollins for this.
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Janet
>A late note - as others have mentioned, it's not for kids, any more than a book that greatly puzzled me when I found it on the shelves in my parents' bedroom. The title was THE CENSORED MOTHER GOOSE. I couldn't figure out what it was about - was it to see if people knew what words went in the blanks?The only one I recall was
Old Mother Goose, when she wanted to __________
Would ________ a large goose or a very small _________.
(I may be misremembering; I don't know if the third blank was a blank or because I now realize the aimed-at filling for the first two blanks wouldn't rhyme with "gander".)
When one or the other of my parents discovered that I had found the book, it disappeared from their shelves. Which, I can only assume, indicates their lack of understanding of my lack of understanding. :)
Posted : Feb 22, 2007 05:51
Melinda
>Well ...*think*
*grin*
I think that Dorothy Sayers could get Sandow down in a headlock pretty easily. Linguistically speaking, of course.
BUT the books are good for a new look at the poem, esp. for somebody who's meeting the poem for the first time.
You know what? It might simply be that I am being some kind of literary snob. I've seen the books at the library; I'll check them out again.
Posted : Nov 28, 2006 03:34
Andy Laties
>The Sandow Birk version of INFERNO sticks very close to the original text. It's uncut. Slangy. Vernacular. Makes a great read-aloud.Posted : Nov 26, 2006 07:31
rindawriter
>Roger, I'm GLAD you screamed.Looking at the cover of the Urban Baby book brought tears to my eyes.
Two days ago, I had just been watching a very young teen urban mom with her young baby at the computer screen. She was so young, so lovely, so tender to the child who was fussy while she was trying to work. What struck me was that the baby although well fed and warmly clothed had not one toy toys...and no board book either. Forgive the mush-gush, I just got a new grandniece, would love to hold her, but she's so far away...okay back to the bookstore for more baby books, now that my husband will let me buy there again with O.J. out of the way..
Posted : Nov 22, 2006 09:27
Melinda
>First sentence: "Dante the Pilgrim wakes from a stupor to discover that he's lost in a dark forest and can't remember anything from the night before..."Dude. So much for that.
Posted : Nov 22, 2006 03:34