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One Star Review Guess Who? (#4)

March 26, 2013 by

Can you guess the classic children’s book by its scathing one-star review on GoodReads or Amazon?

[Author]’s book is a piece of nationalist propaganda, using oversimplification, emotional appeals, and dualistic morality to shut down her readers’ minds. More troubling is that it is aimed at children, who don’t yet have the critical faculties to defend themselves from such underhanded methods.

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About Travis Jonker

Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.

Comments

  1. Sara Ralph says
    March 26, 2013 at 7:20 am

    My first response to this is complete anger since it is one of my favorite children’s books of all time. There’s no accounting for taste I guess? No shortage of idiots either.

  2. Tara Lazar says
    March 26, 2013 at 9:30 am

    I guessed it! I win! Wait, what do I win? LOL.

    Everyone’s a critic these days.

  3. EM says
    March 26, 2013 at 9:56 am

    I got it right! I got it right! Exhilarating and depressing. :)

  4. Anne says
    March 26, 2013 at 10:35 am

    OH GOD! NOT EMOTIONAL APPEALS!! ANYTHING BUT THAT.

  5. Shannon Ozirny says
    March 26, 2013 at 10:44 am

    The Lone Star is both unimpressed AND Canadian. I love it.

  6. Kelly says
    July 17, 2013 at 10:58 am

    I thought it was going to be Babar. There’s a lot of hate for it on GoodReads for promoting colonialism.