Posted on 09/17/2019 5:17:14 AM PDT by simpson96
Responding to a sighting of The ABCs of AOC: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from A to Z, Noah Rothman predicts, Childrens sections in libraries have not yet become a cultural crusade of the right, but it seems a matter of time. Hagiographic portraits of Democratic politicians and appointees from wall to wall.
Perhaps your childs school library has Chelsea Clintons She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World, which is different from Elizabeth Warren: Nevertheless, She Persisted. Or maybe your childs bedroom bookshelf has I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark, or Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx. (Poor Elena Kagan. How come she doesnt get a childrens book about her?) Dont worry, Representative Ilhan Omar pops up in the forthcoming Muslim Girls Rise.
Back in 2016, I took a look at HarperCollins Childrens Books Hillary Rodham Clinton: Some Girls Are Born to Lead, and found that (surprise!) the book got some pretty basic facts wrong in its desire to tell an inspiring story about Clinton perhaps most glaringly declaring the odds were against her in her 2000 Senate race in New York. If other politically themed childrens offerings are similarly heavy-handed and rewrite history for the sake of a better story, conservatives will have good reason to complain.
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“If You Give a Pig a Pancake” is obviously a conservative cautionary tale.
Maybe off topic, but , we see all these children’s books praising the achievements of famous women. And the liberals encourage their daughters to read these books.
But we don’t encourage young boys to learn about and read books about famous men.
Dennis Prager discussed this very issue a while back.
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