I, too did not make a big deal out of it. In public school I can't get
into the God aspect but I remember just saying that little
babies/children often run around w/no clothes after a bath or getting
changed and quickly moved on.
I've run into the same thing w/a book I read about a young man who
travels across the country w/his dog and gets naked in the dessert -
they all giggle about his "butt" and I just say it is very hot in the
dessert.
I forget the name of the book - I am at home and having a sr. moment -
but I use it every year w/2nd grade at "read across America time" and we
plot the different states he travels through on the U.S. map.
Judy Beahan, LMS
Griswold Elementary School
303 Slater Avenue
Griswold, CT 06351
jbeahan@griswold.k12.ct.us
"At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that
threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives
forever, for the better." Barack Obama
>>> Paula Laurita <plaurita@ATHENSLIMESTONE.LIB.AL.US> 09/06/07 12:56 PM
>>>
Disclaimer, I was in a Catholic school for 10 years....I addressed this
book
and others in a simple way when kids commented. Often the kid's
comments
would begin, "This is a bad book."
'Why is it bad?'
"It shows his private parts."
'Who made you?'
"God made me."
'When were born did you have clothes on?'
"No."
'Are you saying God made you "bad"?'
"No!"
'Then this isn't bad just because he has no clothes on.'
I just ordered, on clearance from Bound to Stay Bound, "The Naked Lady."
It addressed the differences between nudity in art and "being naked."
Paula S.W. Laurita
Coordinator of Public Services
Athens-Limestone Public Library
405 East South Street
Athens, AL 35611
(256)232-1233 Ext. 204
Plaurita@athenslimestone.lib.al.us
We have found that a library is not an end in itself, but a means to
many
ends.
Charles E. Rush, 1939
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CULLINAN
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 10:19 AM
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Subject: [LM_NET] How do you handle the nakedness in this book?
Hi everyone,
I am processing books that came in this summer and we have so little new
books that I ordered, among other things, all the Caldecott Honor books.
I
have come across some books that have religious overtones but the book I
am
really worried about is In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak. How do
you
handle the kids reactions to the boy's nakedness? Any complaints from
parents? Do kids deface the book? Is it really worth the trouble I
anticipate to put this book out? Thanks for letting me know how you
handled
it in your library.
Mary Kate Cullinan
Media Specialist
School No. 12
638 Magie Avenue
Elizabeth, NJ 07208
(908) 436-5669
cullinanma@edu.elizabeth.k12.nj.us
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