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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Order of the Phoenix seemed to go very strongly against the liberal anti-gun message.
And that is the beauty on it. If they had shut up it would have gotten not as much publicity. : )))
Oh, I love that book. My children loved it as well. It's still on our bookshelf. (along with every other book we have ever owned. It's so hard to get rid of a book, isn't it? They are like good friends.)
Money talks. Publishers will smell the profits and more books like these will be published. Even getting close to Potter is amazing considering the lack of publicity (except for Rush - woo hoo) this book received.
Money talks. Publishers will smell the profits and more books like these will be published. Even getting close to Potter is amazing considering the lack of publicity (except for Rush - woo hoo) this book received.<<
Well there's the rub. It did not even get close to Potter. NO book this year got "close" to Potter. Potter sold a couple of MILLION books this year on the FIRST DAY. I doubt this book had a run of 100,000. If it is hot it may get 100,000 or 200,000 more printed. But getting close to Potter is publisher hype.
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lol! Thank God for the free market so parents can decide for themselves whether to "warp" the kiddies' minds. BTW, you must not be a parent, otherwise you'd know that all of our children are being brainwashed to believe in every liberal political idea from the time they enter pre-school. Therefore, a book like this just provides them with a simple means to educate them properly about Capitalism and Progress.
My Dad has about 20 various bibles throughout the house.
I was talking about my personal Bibles. Around the house we probably have at least 15 copies, in at least 6 different English translations and a one in Spanish and also my Grandfathers in German.
It is, now. Originally, it was about a group of clever soldiers pulling one over on selfish people.
I wrote a paper comparing several versions of Stone Soup for a Children's Lit class. The prof was startled by the "newer" endings.
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