-------- Original Message -------- Subject: newbery medal controversy: the power of "scrotum" Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:12:57 -0600 From: Gabriel Gudding <gmguddi at ilstu.edu> Reply-To: Gabriel Gudding <gmguddi at ilstu.edu> To: ENGDEP-L at LISTSERV.ilstu.edu
The word "scrotum" appears on the first page of the latest Newbery book. Does this constitute, ahem, a seminal moment in children's literature?
"Because of that one word, I would not be able to read that book aloud." - Dana Nilsson of Durango, Colorado.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0219-06.htm
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