Posted on 09/22/2005 6:49:46 PM PDT by shining_city
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) September 22, 2005 -- An unlikely children's book has stepped forward to challenge "Harry Potter" for the #1 ranking on Amazon.com's bestseller list, and its portrayal of left-wing icons Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy as cartoon villains has provoked a firestorm of controversy in the process.
"Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed" (Kids Ahead; hardcover $15.95; ISBN 0976726904) by Katharine DeBrecht soared to #6 in Amazon's overall rankings on Wednesday afternoon after being praised by talk radio king Rush Limbaugh on his national radio show. The illustrated book ranked second only to J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" in Amazon's children's book category, and was also ranked as #8 overall on Barnes & Noble's site.
Should the book go on to topple "Harry Potter" for the top spot, it would be a major upset by a most unlikely underdog. Not only have the leading publications in the publishing industry such as Publisher's Weekly and The New York Times Book Review ignored the book, it has also been fiercely denounced by liberal pundits and bloggers. The average customer review for "Liberals Under My Bed" on Amazon stood at only one star out of five earlier this week as liberals flocked to the site to criticize the controversial book. But its fortunes dramatically reversed as word of the book spread in conservative circles.
"Our hat is off here to Katharine DeBrecht, the author of 'Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed,'" Limbaugh proclaimed to his audience, adding that left-wing critics were upset about DeBrecht's book because of its accurate parody of the liberal movement. "I'm telling you, the liberals cringe -- they go ape! -- when you dare be honest about them. They call it an attack!" Limbaugh added.
Limbaugh recounted that Ron Reagan — whom he playfully referred to as an MSNBC "quasi-host" — scolded DeBrecht on his cable television show, and that Alan Colmes, the liberal co-host of "Hannity & Colmes," claimed her book existed for the purpose of brainwashing. Limbaugh went on to note that the popular Democratic Underground website named DeBrecht to its "Top 10 Conservative Idiots" list, and that the highly trafficked left-wing blog Daily Kos likened her book to Nazi propaganda.
"Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed" -- which features full-color illustrations by award winning artist Jim Hummel -- tells of two brothers who open a lemonade stand. Their plans to save up their hard-earned profits to buy a swing set go awry when a Ted Kennedy character taxes away their proceeds and a pants-suit clad Hillary Clinton look-alike outlaws sugary drinks. The book is being hailed by traditional values advocates as an alternative to liberal books such as "Rainbow Fish" (where a fish is hectored into giving away his beautiful scales so that all the fish look the same) and "King & King" (where two princes marry each other and adopt a little girl), which are often found in our nation's classrooms.
About Kids Ahead: Kids Ahead is an imprint of Los Angeles-based World Ahead Publishing, the West Coast's premier publisher of conservative and libertarian books. To learn more, visit www.worldahead.com .
Contact Information: To interview author Katharine DeBrecht, contact Special Guests at (630) 848-0750.
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I just balance out "The Rainbow Fish" with "The Incredibles."
Are you receiving radio transmissions from your dental fillings?
Don't be too hard on them, kids are very resiliant. In 1968 my teacher had a mock election for the presidential primary.
We could vote Dem, Rep, or Ind.
I was the only one to vote Ind., and was mad as heck when I found out that I did not have any choice who to vote for when everyone else did.
Of course she was concerned that I wanted to vote for Wallace (I'm in the NW), when I told her I wanted to be independent and who was this Wallace guy, I'm sure she had a chuckle. Hey, I was ten at the time.
DK
Youngster! Phah! Me too! And I'm 43! lol
If you liked the movies, and loved the books, you'll be absolutely nuts over the unabridged audio books, as read by Jim Dale. They're wonderful. I picked them up on CD, and immediately ripped them to MP3, so you can fit the first 3 books onto a single CD each. I'm afraid that "Goblet of Fire" is on 17 audio CDs, so it takes 2 cds. In fact, I'm listening to it right now!
Mark
Your welcome.
I do not consider HP books as "liberal", in fact they agree with conservatives alot in the areas of personal responsibility, accountability for your own actions, respect, honor, honesty and particular in your judgements of others, natural wisdom, forces of light and forces of darkness, envy, pride, deceit, etc. etc.
This book might be a great seller like the HP books, but I do not think they are competing for conservative minds. They both have their merits, in my view.
I agree with your disagree.
I was sacked by the richest private school in the nation because I explained to my sixth graders that our social security system was a ponzi scheme.
No matter that Milton Friedman, Nobel prize winner in economics, said exactly the same thing in his book, Free to Choose.
Tried to tell my kids to save for their own future and not rely on the government. That resulted in the charge of being anti-government.
You cannot totally divorce politics in explaining our system of government. The most insidious and corrosive force in our culture today is the PC movement and its MSM enablers. Any word can be turned inside-out and against you. The PC movement has silenced passionate debate and original thought.
The programing of our children is the first step in the death of individuality and free thought.
Jim Dale is the best. I have never enjoyed listening to anyone more. I hear the man who reads the UK versions is excellent as well, but I haven't been able to get my hands on one yet.
I thought it was about a conman. Come to think about it, we're both right!
I agree with your disagree.
I was sacked by the richest private school in the nation because I explained to my sixth graders that our social security system was a ponzi scheme.
No matter that Milton Friedman, Nobel prize winner in economics, said exactly the same thing in his book, Free to Choose.
Tried to tell my kids to save for their own future and not rely on the government. That resulted in the charge of being anti-government.
You cannot totally divorce politics in explaining our system of government. The most insidious and corrosive force in our culture today is the PC movement and its MSM enablers. Any word can be turned inside-out and against you. The PC movement has silenced passionate debate and original thought.
The programing of our children is the first step in the death of individuality and free thought.
I disagree. There's a special place in hell for people who don't teach their kids enough so that they don't grow up to be air-headed liberals.
Jag!
Judging from some of the one-star reviews I saw over at Amazon.com., this book seems to have struck a raw nerve in supposedly tolerant liberals. Good; I hope it hurts like hell.
Or more than one. My daughter needs multiple translations for a religion class, so my wife and I searched the house tonight. We found six English translations and one Spanish. That's not counting the NIV my daughter has with her.
Should the solution be for him to lose his colorful scales, or for him to simply be less arrogant about it?
I have not read the book, but even if the fish was extremely arrogant I would tend to read that as being an attempt to create sympathy for those who would destroy him. The message being not "Wealthy people shouldn't be arrogant", but "Wealthy people should be attacked because they are always arrogant". Anti-Semetic propaganda did/does that sort of thing a lot.
Exactly!!!
It is one of those things where you can guage how good a salesman is. Can he sell Bibles in the Bible belt?
I have my Dad's (the one he got in the forties when he was sixteen). And mine.
DK
>> I don't care which side, there's a special place in
>> Hell for people who try to warp kids with politics
Warp kids? More like save them. If you don't think they are already getting warped to the left from Kindergarten on, then you have NO idea what is going on in our public school system.
In fourth grade my daughter had a Social Studies book with the following items in them:
-- Statements that taxes are money we pay the government for services we need.
-- The equating of paying taxes with voting and insinuating it was patriotic to pay taxes.
-- A complete chapter on the Civil War with NO reference to any connection to state's rights - just slavery.
It goes on and on, take any significant public policy "hot button" topic and they are already getting brain washed on it. Affirmative action, racial profiling, abortion, gay rights, immigration policies, etc.
If you DO NOT education your children, and early, then someone else will do it for you.
I hear ya'
My daughter had the same "socialist studies" book in the 4th grade, and within two weeks of reviewing it, we were homeschooling.
Yes - I can't count the number of times I wished I had kept a copy of that book, or at least some of the pages.
I tell people what was in it and they often do not believe me.
I have three, my old confimation Bible, the one my wife got me because she was afraid the old veteran (the Bible, not me) was going to fall apart, and a really nice leatherbound Bible she received later as a gift from a Bible distributer as a sales promotion (she already had a nice one, and yes, she sells Bibles).
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