Tuesday, January 19, 2016

The perils of children's book publishing: "A Birthday Cake for George Washington"



Scholastic Pulls Children's Book Criticized for Depiction of Happy Slaves. (NBC News, 1/18/2016)

Author Ramin Ganeshram's 4 other books are all based on a cooking theme, 2 of which are available in LINKcat.  (It appears that no libraries had ordered her latest book.)



At the top of the list of "Most Helpful Customer Reviews" is the heading:

Its like Anne & Otto Frank Baking Cookies for Adolf Hitler on Christmas

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