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 Good book
It's about children living in Cuba, not about politics.
Childhood can be lived happily even in the worst circumstances. Just think about the children playing with friends, right now, in U.S. occupied Iraq, for that matter.
Fecha: 2006-07-26
Right wing Florida nuts celebrate freedom by banning books! Hilarious!
I support this book because I see Floridians who speak in the "name of freedom" requesting the banning of books. They become the same thing they claim to hate. Hilarious!.
Fecha: 2006-07-26
 IT DOES NOT. . . .
This book does NOT tell the whole story.
It does NOT talk about the casinos and whorehouses and organized crime that flourished when Cuba was an American colony, BECAUSE SECOND GRADERS SHOULD BE CONVERSATIONALLY FLUENT ABOUT GAMBLING AND WHORING.
It does NOT talk about the latifundia owners who lived at their ease (they now run their mouths in Miami and on Fox television) while the peons slaved. GOSH DARN FOX TV.
It does NOT describe Kennedy's assault on the island by using local thugs who had been run off the island by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. VIVA CHE
It does NOT talk about how the Kennedy regime used Cuba as a pawn in its nuclear contest with the corresponding idiots in the USSR, targeted by American atomic weapons in Turkey, KILLING CUBA'S NASCENT INDIGENOUS MISSLE PLANTATIONS.
It does NOT talk the USA's unwillingness to protect African Americans in the South at the same time that it ran its mouth about Communism, BECAUSE BLACK PEOPLE ARE APPARENTLY ALL THE SAME, AND DISQUISITIONS ON CUBA SHOULDN'T BE LIMITED TO CUBANS.
It does NOT talk about the USA's coup in Guatemala and installation of a terrorist regime that murdered thousands of average Guatemalans, BECAUSE GUATEMALA IS APPARENTLY SOMEWHERE IN CUBA.
These omissions lead to the conclusion that this book ought to be banned. The audacity of people who write books like this, that don't tell EVERY UNRELATED STORY AT THE SAME TIME, EVERYWHERE.
Now get on it. Go to your kid's school library (if there is one) and get rid of ALL the books that don't tell the WHOLE STORY. BURN BOOKS. VIVA LA REVOLUCION.
Fecha: 2006-07-25
Incomplete and outrageous
This book does NOT tell the whole story.
It does NOT talk about the casinos and whorehouses and organized crime that flourished when Cuba was an American colony.
It does NOT talk about the latifundia owners who lived at their ease (they now run their mouths in Miami and on Fox television) while the peons slaved.
It does NOT describe Kennedy's assault on the island by using local thugs who had been run off the island by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.
It does NOT talk about how the Kennedy regime used Cuba as a pawn in its nuclear contest with the corresponding idiots in the USSR, targeted by American atomic weapons in Turkey.
It does NOT talk the USA's unwillingness to protect African Americans in the South at the same time that it ran its mouth about Communism.
It does NOT talk about the USA's coup in Guatemala and installation of a terrorist regime that murdered thousands of average Guatemalans.
These omissions lead to the conclusion that this book ought to be banned. The audacity of people who write books like this, that don't tell the whole story.
Now get on it. Go to your kid's school library (if there is one) and get rid of ALL the books that don't tell the WHOLE STORY.
Fecha: 2006-07-25
 An innocent book that has fallen victim to controversy.
This is a book that would likely receive little notice except for the controversy it has caused in Miami-Dade County, Florida, where the book has been removed from public school libraries, pending a court challenge from the ACLU. In all honesty this is the only reason I bothered to look at the book.
As is obvious from the editorial reviews this book and others in the series are designed to provide basic information about various countries at the 2nd to 4th grade level. So what do you get? Pictures of schoolchildren, pictures of places in Cuba, along with minimal text.
The books are pretty much what they claim to be - simple readers whose purpose is to teach children that there are kids all over the world, and that while they may be different in detail they are basically the same.
The knock against this particular book is that it does not discuss the flaws in present day Cuba - that the country is ruled by a brutal dictator, that there are often shortages of food and other essential items, and that political repression remains the norm in the country. All true enough - equally true that these are all irrelevant for this particular book series. Discussion of these topics is no more appropriate than discussion of the millions of children who live in poverty or under physically dangerous conditions in the United States - equally true facts that would not belong in a book in this series.
In brief, then, this book does pretty much what it is intended to do, and at a child appropriate level. It is a shame that a few extremists in the Miami community have turned this into a cause celebre.
Fecha: 2006-07-11
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