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“What Book Got You Hooked?” invites readers to share books from childhood that got them whipped. In return, they’ll provide 50,000 new books to the state with the most entries.
I love this campaign, and am so excited that my state, Hawaii, is in the lead! Take that, illiteracy! With all of our libraries shutting down we could use this win.
Oh, the books of youth. There were so many that hooked me: The Story of Ferdinand (LOVED this one), all the Beatrix Potters, The Country Bunny with the Golden Shoes, Ping, Eloise, And Now We are Six, and I can’t help it, but Little Black Sambo and Babar really grabbed me, in that way that racist books and films sometimes do.
Now I like the Fancy Nancy series, I love all of Jamie Lee Curtis’s books, and Harold, that nut with the purple crayon, but honestly, I could care less about Dr. Seuss–so annoying. It’s like he just strings nonsense together and I’m supposed to think it’s “imaginative.” I cough, “bullshit.” Dora blows, too. So formulaic. Princess books–don’t send those–you know my thoughts on them skanks. The Giving Tree is sweet, but that boy was an asshole and the tree just gave a little too much and then the back cover is like–oh shit!–with Shell Silverstein’s close-up author photo looming a bit too close. Some recent hits: the 26 Princesses (one of the princesses farts and my daughter cracks up), Biscuit, the series with Katie visiting museums and whatnot with her lazy grandmother. Princesses Rule and Fanny are great ones if you want to deliver messages about the suckiness of mean girls and Bratz dolls–books like these subtly blend in lessons–kind of like pureed sweet potato tucked into pancake batter. Their next campaign is “What Drug Got you Hooked?” Oh, childhood. Good times.
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