>Teddy bear, teddy bear, do a trick--

by Roger Sutton
Sep 20, 2006 | Filed in Articles & Opinion
>Teddy bear, teddy bear--oops, better not. Someone from Maine might be reading. If the staff and supporters of the Read With ME organization were less interested in covering their, um, bottoms and more invested in actually defending Schoolyard Rhymes, they might attend to the subtitle: Kids' Own Rhymes for Rope Skipping, Hand Clapping, Ball Bouncing, and Just Plain Fun. They could also learn from Susan Dove Lempke's Horn Book review of the book, from our September/October 2005 issue: "Those who know childhood humor will not be shocked that many of the poems do feature underwear and insults." "There are words in there I don't allow in my house" says outraged Maine mother Erica Smith. Yes, and this is why we fucking make you send your kids to school.
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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>Another verse of the Sunday School rhyme:
Adam was a young man
And Eve she was his wife.
They lived in the garden of Eden
And they led a merry life
'Til Eve ate the apple
And Adam did the same.
Then they moved to the suburbs
And started raising Cain.

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