Re: Elem. : Goosebumps

[Jan Helene Moore <janmoore@TENET.EDU>]

On 1 Apr 1996, B & D Keyser wrote:


> Most parents who are fundamentalist tell their kids not to bring them home.

   At my last Book Fair, I sold a Goosebumps to a child whom I knew
belonged a religion which shall be nameless. My gut feeling was that the
child's parent would not allow the book but after questioning the child,
usually a responsible child who said she owned other GB titles, I sold
her the book.  That same evening the mother came back, explaining the
their religion did not allow *gnomes*! (_Revenge of the Garden Gnomes_ or
something like that).  The mother allowed her to exchange for *another
Goosebumps*, without gnomes!
   Now I have had the witch-hunters, anti-Halloween ladies, and the
no-ghost people, but I never, in 15 years in the profession, had anybody
object to gnomes!
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