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Lauren 7, Grade 3, gets books given to her at school that she brings home to read with me and when she's done 50 nights of reading she gets to read a book to the principal. All well and good, but tonight she brought a graphic novel home that she'd been given and Mum (my parents are over from England for 3 weeks; David is IN England for a week, go figure) brought it to me and said maybe I could check it first.
It's a book in a series, and I quote.
True-life tragedies jump off the page in the graphic library set disasters in history.
Check out these other Disasters in history titles:
The Apollo 13 Mission
The Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Challenger Explosion
The Donner Party
The Great Chicago Fire of 1871
The Hindenburg Disaster
Shackleton and the Lost Antarctic Expedition
and (the one Lauren was given) The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
I'm surprised 9/11 and the Titanic aren't on the list.
The factory fire was a landmark for workers' rights and highlighted the plight of factory workers; Lauren needs to know about it and the women and children who died in that fire.
But she doesn't need it in comic form with a young woman begging to be allowed onto the last elevator to safety and being turned away as it was full, leaving her to die, women jumping to avoid being burned into nets that gave way, killing them and she doesn't need it now, this young.
I wrote a terse note explaining that she'd read a Sparkle Fairy book instead and please to find another series for her to read in this program.
The Donner Party. Sheesh.
It's a book in a series, and I quote.
True-life tragedies jump off the page in the graphic library set disasters in history.
Check out these other Disasters in history titles:
The Apollo 13 Mission
The Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Challenger Explosion
The Donner Party
The Great Chicago Fire of 1871
The Hindenburg Disaster
Shackleton and the Lost Antarctic Expedition
and (the one Lauren was given) The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
I'm surprised 9/11 and the Titanic aren't on the list.
The factory fire was a landmark for workers' rights and highlighted the plight of factory workers; Lauren needs to know about it and the women and children who died in that fire.
But she doesn't need it in comic form with a young woman begging to be allowed onto the last elevator to safety and being turned away as it was full, leaving her to die, women jumping to avoid being burned into nets that gave way, killing them and she doesn't need it now, this young.
I wrote a terse note explaining that she'd read a Sparkle Fairy book instead and please to find another series for her to read in this program.
The Donner Party. Sheesh.
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