>He Knows When You're Asleep at the Wheel, Too

by Roger Sutton
Aug 03, 2007 | Filed in Articles & Opinion
>Yep, it's 96 degrees out there but we've started pulling together our "Holiday Books" review section for the November issue. We will have some good books to tell you about there, I promise, but meanwhile I thought I would mention three concepts that might need to go back to Santa's workshop for some retooling:

--celebrating Hanukkah with a dreidel piñata

--giving the crippled kid magical legs while the rest of the family gets real presents

--a Santa who can't stop farting

The elves are waiting for your call.
Roger Sutton
Roger Sutton

Editor Emeritus Roger Sutton was editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc., from 1996-2021. He was previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. He received his MA in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a BA from Pitzer College in 1978.

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Anonymous

>Fartsy Claus?!?

Oh, lord...you've got to be joking me.

Posted : Aug 06, 2007 08:51

Anonymous

>I'm surprised that there are no TRANSFORMER books.

Posted : Aug 06, 2007 05:08

Minh Le

>This may be slightly off topic, but i was in LA recently and saw a giant billboard outside a church that said, "What Would Jesus Drink? Free Starbucks after Sunday Mass!!!"

It may not be kids book related, but it is another Christmas figure being coopted into the realm of the absurd...

Posted : Aug 06, 2007 04:29

rindawriter

>Oh, my, my, my! And are we to call these imaginative books? And these got into PRINT?

There has GOT to be diference somewhere between imaginative and just plain stupid, I suppose...but my imaginator fails me right now as to how to precisely define books with themes/plots like these.

I hope these sorts of rejects don't go to charities. I hope, fervently, they get recycled with giant robot shredders.

Posted : Aug 06, 2007 04:13

Roger Sutton

>I smell . . . Caldecott!

Posted : Aug 05, 2007 11:46

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