Category: For the Kids
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Phonics Phun
The Fantastic Phonics Food Factory Wilkes and Grogan 2000 Submitter: The Fantastic Phonics Food Factory is neither savory nor sweet. It is overly spicy and not fit for human consumption. Usually cucumbers get a bad rap but this book equally sexualizes all foods, fruits, vegetables and processed meats. It has…
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Magic Potato
Big Bob and the Magic Valentine’s Day Potato Pinkwater 1999 Submitter: Our Valentine’s picture book collection is more than a little bit sad. I found TWO copies of this little gem mixed in with a dozen or so other titles. Even with that small number of Valentine’s books, this one still…
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Bogus POTUS
The Boy Who Looked Like Lincoln Reiss 2003 Submitter: (Warning… 12 year old boy humor alert : ) This book is about an unusual looking boy whose parents send him away to camp where he meets other unusual looking children & realizes he’s ok. So heartwarming, right? Nope. We were…
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Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack
Jump Rope Rhymes McGee 1968 Submitter: This was a donation, apparently removed from some other library many years ago, and someone thought we just might like it. It looks ancient and dirty (I had to majorly improve some of the images so they’re readable), smells very strongly (and not in…
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Just Be ‘Cos
My Big Lie Cosby 1999 Submitter: Weeded from the children’s collection at my public library. We kept the other titles (and I really love this series!) but we felt that this one had to go. Holly: My library still has a copy of this in circulation, although it hasn’t gone out…
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Death in a Bottle
The Brown Bottle Jones 1983 Submitter: Found this in storage (at least that’s our saving grace – this wasn’t on the shelf!) of a small town public library. I have now weeded it. It’s a picture book about a caterpillar who is an alcoholic. And dies instead of changing into a butterfly.…
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