[LMB] Re: OT: Very small child book recommendations

[JENNIFER WALKER]

  >> _Nappy Hair_ --totally nonPC, but you know, I know white people with that
>> kind of hair, too. Plus the story is made to be chanted, clapped, and danced
>> to. (no, no, mustn't write the Hermione Granger version...)
>>

>I'm really curious how this is "totally nonPC."

>It's written by an African American about hair that many kids have on
>their head. How can this possibly be non-PC?

>widdy
   
  If I remember correctly from the controversy when it came out, the main objection was to the term "nappy".  It was considered by some to be an offensive descriptive word.  Then a teacher read it out loud to her class and got in trouble for it.  I was a children's librarian at the time and remember there was a huge deal made out of it.
   
  jwalker