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The girl with pinhead parents
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Price: $17.95 (CND)
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Product ID: book-tgwpp
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Price: $17.95 (USD)
GST (6%): $1.07
PST (8%): $1.44
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Product ID: book-tgwpp
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ACCLAIMED MUSIC JOURNALIST KAREN BLISS, author of anti-racism children’s picture book, THE GIRL WITH PINHEAD PARENTS with illustrations by Bonnie Fedrau.
THE GIRL WITH PINHEAD PARENTS provides an important role in helping to establish independent thinking in young children. Many kids experience prejudice of some kind when they start attending school. Without resorting to stereotypes, THE GIRL WITH PINHEAD PARENTS takes unique, imagined characters and puts them in the position of determining what is right and what is wrong. They play together, accepting of each other’s differences, until they come across a girl whose pinhead parents won’t allow her to join in. Unfortunately, prejudice is often learned at home. THE GIRL WITH PINHEAD PARENTS illustrates how absurd it is to discriminate against people based on appearance. At the story’s conclusion, it is up to the parent to explain that it’s what’s inside that counts.
THE GIRL WITH PINHEAD PARENTS is inspired by two sources: anti-racism expert Jane Elliott’s remarkable Blue-Eyes/Brown-Eyes Exercise, which uncovers the irrationality of discriminating against entire peoples based on physical attributes, and by the innocent questions of children interviewed by news outlets after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. “Why can’t we all get along?” they wondered. Karen wrote THE GIRL WITH PINHEAD PARENTS on a flight to Australia that Christmas. The whimsical characters are meant to show the absurdity of racial stereotypes. “I hope that the story, and its admittedly sad ending, will encourage dialogue between parents and children about tolerance. We can all learn from innocent minds,” she says.
“This is a book for PARENTS, for God's sake. I will buy it for my children, not for my grandchildren. If enough parents read this book now, we may be less likely to need books like it in the future. What a simple and beautiful idea.”
— Jane Elliott, anti-racism expert, Blues Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise (www.janeelliott.com)
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