Sunday, March 13, 2011 1:55:56 AM
A 6 year olds perspective on what's going on.
My sister woke up this morning so concerned with what was going on in japan, which led to this conversation.
Me: Why are you up so early?
Her: What in the world? Did you not hear about the tsunami?
Me: I did. I know. It's horrible.
Her: Heck yes it is. We need to buy sushi as soon as the sushi place opens.
Me: Huh? Why?
Her: Oh my goodness. Do i need to explain everything for you?
Me: Yeah. I don't understand why we need to buy sushi?
Her: It's because when you buy something japanese the money goes to japan. or could I send my piggy bank to someone in japan? they need it more then I do. I'll even send them my floaties. I don't need any of it. Why did this happen to japan? they never did anything wrong.
Me: That's just the way mother nature works.
Her: Well where's father nature? I'm sure he's gonna be mad at mother nature. She's hurting her kids. She's a mean mom.
Me: She's not really a mom, thats just what people call it.
Her: Whatever. Whoever this nature lady is, is a pain in the butt. She's always hurting people. Tell her go to mars, and nature herself over there.
Friday, April 2, 2010 4:30:33 PM
I totally thought this was an April Fool’s joke, and then I looked up the book. Holy Cold Beach, it’s real!
Hawaii
Hello USA series
Johnston
1995
Submitter: May I present to you the 1995 cover of a children’s book about Hawaii, from Lerner Publications’ Hello USA series, discovered while weeding my long-neglected States books collection at my branch library today.
There are so many things to love about this cover, the first being that it was picked to represent Hawaii in the first place. No cliched palm trees or hula dancers here! Nothing says “paradise” like white tourists bundled up in sweatshirts and blankets as if this were a fall day on Nantucket, am I right? Not to mention that one of the girls has her eyes closed, poor thing, immortalized forever on a book cover.
You have to wonder if there was really no better choice. At first I thought maybe some publishing bigwig insisted on using his family’s photo from a recent trip. But the copy on the t.p. verso reads, “Cover photograph of tourists on a Hawaiian beach in December courtesy of Independent Picture Service.” Someone paid real money for this picture!
Needless to say, I didn’t even have to check the circulation before I chucked this one from the shelves – but when I did, surprise surprise, it hadn’t caught any kid’s eye in ages.
Holly: They did update this cover in 2001 to a much nicer picture – an erupting volcano and a postcard of a lovely sunny beach (no people). This one, that you have submitted, could as easily be on the cover of a book about Michigan! Lake Superior in July or Waikiki in December? You decide. credit for the article goes to
http://awfullibrarybooks.wordpress.com/
Thursday, January 14, 2010 6:00:07 PM
Happy New Year! *serves ice cream to all! *
My Opera
