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Title: Dragon Takes a Wife by Walter Dean Myers, Fiona French ISBN: 0-613-28470-4 Publisher: Bt Bound Pub. Date: March, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.15

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Fond Memories
Comment: I loved this book as a child. The new edition has illustrations that are less whimsical but certainly more updated. Instead of feeling offended by the language...(Yes, the author is Black)...I think this story is a excellent way to introduce the idea of 'audience' to your students After all, it was written in the 70s and is directed to a 70s audience.

Growing up it was one of the only children's books that I was exposed to that had Black characters and she was a powerful character too. She knew what she was talking about and was totally in control. She wasn't a token character colored brown to suit PC sentiments.

Anyhow, this was one of my favorite stories growing up and I still have the copy that I loved as a child.

Rating: 1
Summary: Dissappointing. Poor english pretending to be culture
Comment: This author clearly backs the embarassing Ebonics movement. The main character (a black female good fairy) speaks in constant ghetto-ese, inappropriate for this age group. I returned the book because I barely have time to teach my children how to read and write proper English. If they wrote or talked that way at school their grades would take a serious hit.

I assume the author is black. If not, the NAACP would be banning this book as racist. The old double standard at work again.

Rating: 5
Summary: UPDATE!
Comment: Update: I now have the NEW edition and the slang has been updated, so I have ZERO complaints!

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