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Title: Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman, Diana Souza ISBN: 1-55583-543-0 Publisher: Alyson Pubns Pub. Date: June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.36 (22 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: May not reach intended audiences on account of bad graphics.
Comment: I appreciate the openess (since kids are much smarter than we give them credit for, the insemination would not upset children) of this book, but the lack of color is tricky in a children's book.
I have read some excellent 'current issue' children's fiction books which succeed in telling their story (and inspiring creative thinking) without using color (Days with Daddy) but the lines in those stories were well-defined. The hazy presentation of this book will ironically make it difficult to talk with kids about so-called alternative families. The most open message in the world becomes cold and inviting if it cannot appeal to the eye of the intended reader.
Plus, if colors convey mood, this same decision may inadvertently suggest the women and Heather are engaged in something secretive and not as valid when compared against the activities of status quo idealized heterosexual families. Ms. Newman may have completely different politics, but she seems to echo the far right's endless admonitions about sexuality and youth with the layout.
Future editions need to have clear color graphics throughout the text.Art is not benign, but a political statement as important as carefuly crafted text. It is difficult for children to be excited/proud about their families (or the existence of GLBT families) after reading a book which seems gloomy.
Rating: 1
Summary: moral relativism strikes again
Comment: "A reader from Missouri," in the context of her plea for tolerance, calls those who disagree with her "hypocritical religious freaks" and "ignorant."
Hmmm.. interesting.
I am saddened by all of these books that promote gay families, because we are so completely unaware as a society of the future toll that will be taken on these children. Doing whatever makes the adults happy is not necessarily what is best for the child. Promoting it in the name of tolerance is irresponsible and dangerous.
Rating: 1
Summary: IMPORTANT STATEMENT ON OUR MORAL DECLINE
Comment: This book and others like it are part of a widespread, insidious effort to promote homosexuality and make it acceptable to society at large. Active homosexuality has always been considered undesirable and eschewed as an unacceptable lifestyle. But now, under the guise of "diversity" and "nontraditional families", gays and lesbians are being granted special minority status and often preferential treatment re adoptions of children. The gay lobby has managed to chip away at normalcy with help from the media and liberal judges and politicians. Indeed this book and others like it are intended to indoctrinate children to a deviancy which has rightly been renounced by every society in recorded history. Naturally any reference to the obvious abnormality of perpetrating two gay daddies or two lesbian mommies on poor Heather is unexplored. Heather may indeed have "two mommies", but five will get you ten that she would prefer it otherwise.
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Title: Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite ISBN: 1555831184 Publisher: Alyson Pubns Pub. Date: December, 1991 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: ABC A Family Alphabet Book by Bobbie Combs, Desiree Keane, Brian Rappa ISBN: 0967446813 Publisher: Two Lives Publishing Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: 123 A Family Counting Book by Bobbie Combs, Danamarie Hosler ISBN: 0967446805 Publisher: Two Lives Publishing Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Who's in a Family? by Robert Skutch, Laura Nienhaus ISBN: 188367266X Publisher: Tricycle Pr Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: All Families Are Different by Sol Gordon, Vivien Cohen ISBN: 1573927651 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.50 |
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