Category: For the Kids
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What’s Wrong With Timmy?
What’s Wrong with Timmy? Shriver 2001 Submitter: This book is part of a series by Shriver for helping kids accept the fact that bad stuff happens to people and no one knows why. There is another book we own by Shriver about Alzheimer’s. Kate, our main character, learns through colored pencil…
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Retro STEM
The How and Why Wonder Book Of Beginning Science Notkin 1960 Okay all you budding science nerds! Filled with simple experiments and some retro illustrations, you can see these Stepford kids growing up to be kick ass scientists or possibly robots. Aside from the illustrations, my favorite page is on…
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One or the Other
You’re Either One or the Other: A Children’s Book About Human Sexuality Wilt 1980 Submitter: I rescued this from a community fundraiser/second hand book sale. Omg… I don’t think I need to explain. Holly: Hergie’s illustrations are so darn cute that Joy Wilt’s books can easily be overlooked when weeding.…
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Spork
Spork Maclear 2010 Submitter: As parents of a biracial child, we wanted to like this one. Look! A local author! Look at the adorably dorky little utensil with the ambiguous little spikey-dready hair! But quickly we were howling in horrified laughter. Daddy—Couldn’t biracial kids be something awesome? How about a…
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Bang Bang You’re Dead
Bang Bang You’re Dead Fitzhugh and Scoppettone 1969. Submitter: Target audience on cover flap: K-3. In today’s climate, kids shooting guns, kids aiming guns at one another – heck, guns in general! – in a children’s book are tough to explain. Some of the text, such as “‘I got you…
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Hollywood Dogs
Red Carpet Pups Foster 2013 I have a pet peeve about animals in outfits. Just no. They always look embarrassed. However, I am quite sure that there is an audience for this book. Kristin Stewart and Niki Menaj fans, maybe? The copy I looked at was as sturdy as a…
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