. Which looks like the one below on Amazon for way too much money.
He brings up the book when he is on this page below… Full of questions!
I silently start reading; “New Life. New human life begins when a women and man make love, and a tiny female egg cell joins with an even tinier male sperm cell… The two cells are brought together when the man puts his penis into the women’s vagina, and sperm cells are released and swim up through her womb…” Not to mention the nice illustrations…
Um… Sh##! I was in no way ready to even discuss this topic… I quickly took away the book (called Daddy for advice) and told my son that this is something more for older people to read about and something that happens when you are old and married. We would share more information on this topic with him when he was older. Of course my husband was even more annoyed by this… calling the author a female liberal who thinks five year olds should be taught about sex. He feels the author almost snuck this into the book.Next step is to take the book to school and show the librararian… which I am pretty positive would not wish to have kindergarten through third graders reading without parent permission.
Another funny little part to this story is that when I told my son I did not want him reading this and then I hid the book, he found the book! I saw him reading it one AM when he thought I was upstairs…
Moral of this story is: Don’t judge a book by the cover! If your child is a good reader, you may want to skim a book before you send them off to read on their own. Even if the book came from a elementary school library!
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FUNNY! I had a student, first grade afew years ago, that got a joke book from the Library. she brought it back a few days later and said he grandma said there was a bad word in it, she showed me the page, it was a Joke about Beavers and the joke went something to the effect of " the beavers were to DAM busy"!!!
the librarian and I agreed that we would not give the gramma a lesson on Beavers build Dams, but that the Dam she was referring to had a "N" at the end…. LOL
Doesn't look like the author intended that book for a first grade audience, it is well beyond a first grade reading level.
haha awww…that's kind of funny he snuck away with it. Nice story though! It's def. something to keep in mind.
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-Lauren
Isn't it funny how kids are able to zoom in on the one piece of information we wish they wouldn't? Cute story!
Haha – too funny!