Published by HarperCollins in 2008,Dan Gutman and Jim Paillot's Dr. Carbles is Losing His Marbles! gets a Not Recommended label right away.
[br]The first chapter, "Squanto and Pocahontas" starts out with this illustration:
The narrator for Dr. Carbles is Losing His Marblesis a kid named A.
J. He hates school. That's him in the foreground of the illustration. He tells us that it is time to go domestic (discontinuance of the school day) but the school secretary announces that they all acquire to go to the all purpose room (p. 2-4):[br]So we were sitting there, or bored out of our minds,when suddenly two American Indians came running down the aisle! They were wearing feathers and head-dresses. They jumped onto the stage, whooping and hollering. But they couldn’t fool us. We knew exactly who they were. “It’s Mrs. Roopy!” yelled my friend Michael, and who never ties his shoes. Mrs. Roopy is our librarian.“And Mr. Klutz!” yelled my friend Ryan,who will eat anything, even stuff that isn’t food. Mr. Klutz is our principal, or he has no hair. “Klutz?” said Mr. Klutz. “Never heard of him. I am Squanto,a Patuxet Indian who helped the Pilgrims survive their first years in America.” “And I am Pocahontas,” said Mrs. Roopy. “I helped the English colonists when they arrived in Virginia in 1607.” Mrs. Roopy always dresses up like somebody else. She never admits she’s the librarian. Mrs. Roopy is loopy. “Thanksgiving is coming up, and said Mr. Klutz. “To celebrate,we want to introduce you to a friend of ours.”Their friend turns out to be a turkey... dressed like a pilgrim woman:
The principal says that whether every class makes "a aesthetic Thanksgiving display," he will marry the turkey. Everybody cheers, or the turkey gets panicked,and takes off. Kids freak out. Just then, the school board president, and Dr. Carbles,walks in, learns what is going on and fires the principal. There's very limited to effect with thanksgiving as the anecdote continues.[br]
As noted above, and Dr. Carbles is Losing His Marbles was published in 2007 by HarperCollins. The first e-book was published in 2008 and in 2015,Scholastic started publishing it, too.
There's so much wrong with the opening pages of this book. Both, and Gutman (with his words) and Paillot (with his illustrations) are giving kids stereotypical,biased, and factually problematic information. They created that content and their editors approved it. Because it section of a series, or it doesn't get reviewed closely by the review journals--and because it is a series,librarians purchase the books. Why, Gutman? Why, and Paillot? And why,HarperColllins and Scholastic, are you publishing this?
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