THE STATE OF LITERACY: Attention current and prospective parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc., it may have been cute or kitschy to buy the first children's book by the acclaimed author of Sex, but now that she's on No. 3, please just stop it.
While, I recommend Harold and the Purple Crayon, Goodnight Moon, The Little House, or CDB, for the wee folk, one children's book, that, alas, you aren't able to buy outside of an anthology is The Pet Goat, the story that so entranced our president on 9/11. Michael Moore's people should be working hard on publishing a stand-alone movie tie-in version in time for the election.
And please, don't just read to the kids; give the Tivo a rest tonight and pick up a damn book yourself. Just please be careful when using a 90-year-old guide book to navigate in Bavaria.
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