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kleinbl00 · 3323 days ago · link · · parent · post: Children's book, "A Birthday Cake for George Washington" pulled by Scholastic
The problem, I believe, is that this is a children's book that presents the true complexity of a historical situation to parents that have no basis in that complexity nor the preparedness to explain it adequately to their children. Slavery = bad is about the nuance you usually get from children's books (if you're lucky - lookin' at you, Berenstein Bears) and if there's complexity, that complexity pretty much has to be the payload of the story... not the background against which the story is set. It's a shame, but an unsurprising one.