Occasionally libraries need to weed their collection. I was recently working on weeding the collection at one of the elementary schools I am student teaching at. My cooperating teacher was trying to get the teacher resource rooms cleaned out a bit. We got rid of all the VHS tapes since they have become an obsolete format and we got rid of the professional books that the teachers never come to check out. The picture you see on the left is the cover of a book we discovered. The book was from 1984, and if you view the page below, you will realize how much this book needed to be weeded. This book was outdated, it really only addressed the female side of this issue, and it was much too wordy for any child to be expected to sit through. It may be a worthy topic of discussion, but there has to be a better book out there. I shared this book with my boyfriends mom and with my own mom. They both said that there needed to be a more child friendly book available, and a book for little boys. If you would like to view more of this book check it out on Google Books.
While I must admit that I am conservative on this issue, I think families should talk about and teach this topic not the school, however, I am not so archaic as to believe that this is not an important subject and children need access to these sorts of books. I guess more than anything I am a romantic in many ways and wish the world was a different place! (forgive me…)
ReplyDeleteBack to the point… I would like to share several titles in our library that may be used to replace the out-of-date book that brought me here in the first place, My Body is Private.
•Madaras, Lynda. On your mark, get set, grow!: a “what’s happening to my body?” book for younger boys. New York: Newmarket Press, 2008.
•Madaras, Lynda. On your mark, get set, grow!: a “what’s happening to my body?” book for younger girls. New York: Newmarket Press, 2003.
•Blackstone, Margaret. Girl stuff: a survival guide to growing up. San Diego, Calif., Harcourt, 2000.
•Daldry, Jeremy. The teenage guy’s survival guide. Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown & Company, 1999.
I hope this helps and enlightens.
Thanks for the blog and the opportunity to share!