Babies

Let's talk about babies. Being here at BYU, tons of people have babies and that's fine, honestly. Today I was sitting in my health class (School Health for Elementary School Teachers). A girl who had already done some work in the classrooms and is further along in the program than I am told a story of a boy that had to sleep in the garage (not a nice fancy finished one, like a normal garage as far as I know) because there were 13 kids in his family and there was no room in his house. WHAT THE HECK?! I personally think that I'll wait to have kids until I have enough health insurance to pay for the having the baby and enough money to provide. I don't need to be rich, but I need to have enough. I understand that not everyone thinks that way and thinks you should not delay having children for any reason and that's fine. But, this situation is ridiculous. If you have too many kids and you aren't able to give them the basic needs like a warm place to sleep, then STOP HAVING KIDS. Now I'm just upset.

Swimmy

I think most anyone that reads this blog knows that I'm taking a children's lit class.  Today, we talked about book censorship.  I expected to see Harry Potter and wasn't too surprised by Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (which is illustrated with the police officers as pigs).  However on book totally surprised me.  It's called Swimmy.

 

This is the cover of the offending title, a Caledecott Honor Book.  Not to spoil it, but this is how the story goes.  You see those little red fish around the bottom left of the picture?  Those are the rest of the fish in Swimmy's school.  Swimmy is the little black fish.  He knows he's a little different than the others, but that's ok.  One day the fish are all out swimming (as fish do) and a big fish (I think it's a tuna) comes and eats all of them, except for Swimmy.  Well, poor little Swimmy is sad so he goes out looking for friends.  He asks a jelly fish and a lobster and a variety of other sea creatures to no avail.  Finally, he finds a school of little red fish exactly like his!  He joins them and teaches them to make a formation like the one pictured below (which isn't from the actual book)

By doing this, the little fish can scare away the big fish and not get eaten.  Isn't that a good story?  Yeah, I thought it was alright.  Then what is this book doing on banned and controversial book lists in many parts of the country?

If anyone (in this area) can guess correctly WITHOUT looking it up or asking someone else, I'll bake them the delicious treat of their choice.

You have two days.  The answer will be posted by thursday.