This is one of the books DeSantis has worked on banning from public schools libraries

[Botany]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Big_Mooncake_for_Little_Star

I went and ordered a copy for my granddaughter and she is going to share it with her k-garden class
after she and her family are done reading it.


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Update they just got the book and my granddaughter loves it and her mom is the head baker @ this
famous bakery in Akron....

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Just for fun I looked up a recipe on how to make mooncakes .... no thanx lots of steps.

[JuJuChen]

1. great mother/daughter book!

[11 Bravo]

2. Who are those damned libs trying to fool?

Big? Little? Mooncake?

This bit of seditious trash is clearly a product of the Communist inspired and Soros financed recruiting wing of the BLM movement!

Way to stand ever vigilant, Governor DeSantis!!!!!

[hibbing]

18. I've heard antifa is involved too n/t

[okaawhatever]

22. Yep. Read it backwards & you'll start treating POC as EQUALS!! nt

[Journeyman]

3. Were there reasons given for why they wish to ban the book? . . .

I just read the description on Wikipedia and I'm hard pressed to understand what was found to be objectionable.

Of course, Wikipedia isn't known for its attention to detail, so the story may have elements not discussed on that web page.

[CurtEastPoint]

9. Ditto. I read it too and cannot fathom why they want it removed.

[KS Toronado]

12. Written by an Asian with Asian drawn characters

That's a no-no with white supremacists. They started out attempting to kill Black History,
appears they added Asians, Native Americans & Mexicans will be next.

[soldierant]

14. Already included.

Anything other than pure white is a no-no.

[NullTuples]

26. And then New Mexicans, too!

[Archae]

4. I saw why DeSantis wants to ban it.

It celebrates a part of Asian culture, and that ain't "MURICAN!"

DeSantis wants a book that shows "The Yellow Menace!"

[Botany]

8. That is it. DeSantis wants to stoke the ethic and social differences between people to build his ..

... credibility with the mouth breathing Christo Fascist he sees as his base. Make no mistake
he is trying 24/7 to see how much shit he can get away with.

[rubbersole]

16. He's getting by with a lot.

Wants to stay ahead of abbott.

[pwb]

5. Little Ron, I bet he still likes Spanish and Cubans eh?

The Races are beyond humans. All great. Fuck Desatan.

[zipplewrath]

6. Don't be fooled

The objection has nothing to do with the content. This is the problem knowledgeable people have in debating things like this. They debate the issue even though reality is that the people advocating the position have no intention of defending it on any rational basis. They don't object to the specific content, they object to the people who wrote it.

[Ilsa]

7. Booklist Reviews:

Booklist Reviews

Against the backdrop of a black sky, Mama and Little Star bake a giant mooncake. But as she puts the cake out to cool, Mama admonishes her daughter not to touch it. And she doesn't—until she wakes up in the night. Then, it's "pat, pat, pat" over to the mooncake, where she nibbles just a bit. Each night, there's more nibbling, causing the mooncake to change shape, until it's just a crescent. That's when Mama sees what's happened, but she isn't mad. It's just time to make another mooncake.

Although the story is slight (and there's no direct aligning of the mooncake with the stages of the moon, either in text or note), the gouache illustrations are excellent. Mother and daughter, both dressed in star-covered black jumpsuits that add bits of light to inky backgrounds, are intriguing characters who come alive through facial expressions. Little Star's impish looks are worth the price of admission. This has no roots in Chinese mythology, Lin says, but she associates it with Asian moon festivals. A complementary read for those holidays. Preschool-Grade 2. Copyright 2018 Booklist Reviews.

I can't understand what DeSatan is upset about.

[soldierant]

15. DeSantis is upset because

the book shows Asians as real, normal human beings. Only lily-white people are allowed to be depicted as normal, real human beings in DeSantistan.

[iluvtennis]

24. +1.

[teach1st]

10. Veshi's Banned Book Club: Interview with author Grace LIn

Today’s “Velshi Banned Book Club” feature, Grace Lin’s “A Big Mooncake for Little Star,” shouldn’t be on the list at all. The glossy black book and its illustrations dig into numerous themes -- including a mother-daughter relationship rooted in understanding and love, the phases of the moon represented by the waning mooncake, and a celebration of Chinese heritage. The book was written to honor the Mooncake, or Mid-Autumn, Festival. Books like “A Big Mooncake for Little Star,” featuring non-white protagonists written by a non-white authors -- are necessary. “We each have our story and we need to appreciate each other’s stories,” says Lin. Chinese children need to see themselves centered in the pages of books. Chinese parents need to have that special moment before bedtime where they can read their young child a story – a story that celebrates their culture and makes them not feel so “other.”

[Botany]

19. Thanks for posting this video

I kind of heard it when it was on last weekend and decided to get the book then
and there. Grace Lin is a sweetheart!

[iluvtennis]

23. Yep, saw this interview on Velshi a few weeks back. Thanks. n/t

[teach1st]

11. Was this book banned anywhere else besides the Central York (PA) School District?

That's the only place I can find that had it listed, and from what I can tell the district rescinded the ban.

https://bookriot.com/central-york-book-ban-overturned/

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

13. I was beginning to wonder if the book banners only focused on Black written books

[slightlv]

17. It may not be based on a religion,

but it is not explicitly "christianist" and it directs the attention to the stars and moon (and therefore, witchcraft, no doubt in deSatan's twisted mind).

I think we'll be seeing more of this, unfortunately. It won't just be racial and, gender based. You'll see more and more books banned because of what they view as anti-christian content. IOW, the devil's readers. They've always been around... just look at how much flack Harry Potter got when it gained readers of all ages. And the Harry Potter books are, at heart, about love, loyalty, and friendship. Something these rightwingers really know nothing about. But it sure does lead one to be "woke."

Back in the 80's they tried hard around here to get our herb shops closed down by banning the sale of loose herbs. That finally died. Well, most of the shops have closed now. But I'd lay odds they go after these again, whether they're still in business or not... just on general purposes.

Many of us have been out of the closet too many years... decades even... it'll be hard to get our supplies and we'll no doubt end up on lists trying to buy what we can find. Time to do what they did back in the old days...use usual household items. We'll all become kitchen witches!

[Evolve Dammit]

20. Full blown Christo-Fascism. May we quell the insurrectionists and endure.

[betsuni]

21. Well, I'm pretty sure an elementary school reader helped make me a liberal.

My family moved from the midwest where my mother had enrolled us in the only religious school there, Catholic, even though we were Lutheran, to the Pacific Northwest and public school.

In second grade one of my textbooks was an anthology of folktales and stories from around the world: Russia, China, Mexico, Europe, Africa, "Momotaro" from Japan, Laura Ingalls Wilder's maple syrup chapter from "Little House in the Big Woods." I became obsessed with the folklore of PNW Indian tribes, read everything I could find in the town's tiny library about other countries and it snowballed from there. Uh oh.

Later in life my mother wept about allowing her children to go to public schools, that and feminism and liberals destroyed America. Books are dangerous! She really did try to force us to listen to her read Bible stories and reverse the damage, but it was too late. The public schools corrupted us.

[housecat]

25. Every banned book is an endorsement. Kids will read them on their own