Cuba

A very informative book for children about Cuban lifestyles and customs; Fortunately void of any questionable material too vulgar or unfit for a child's eyes. If your child is interested in Cuba and doesn't care to be exposed to the obscene horrors of this world, look no further, this is the book for you!

This book is for little kids, and thus at the reading level of its detractors. Do not fault it for failing to address your adult concerns. This is juvenile literature! Elsewhere has been noted the irony of a board of education banning a book for failing to mention the alleged banning of books in Cuba. But this is a children's book, and cannot claim to be comprehensive. The first thought of any good author is audience. The author and editors of this series seriously considered the juvenile audience of this book, consistent with the tone and content and level of the rest of this excellent and instructive series which opens the whole world to our youngest literate students. Why pass on to our next generation the nightmares of the history from which we must all struggle together to shake off in order to awaken to a new dawn of peace and humanity. Let us focus on our unity rather than past resentments and political prejudice. Or should I burn my copy of A Visit to Ireland for not recounting the full horrors of Cromwellian genocide through the centuries and the mid-eighteen hundreds mass exterminations as our food and beef were sent before our famished eyes to London, into the twentieth century. I would do better to seek this additional information in learned and scholarly historical works such as Hell or Connaught: The Cromwellian Colonization of Ireland, 1652-1660, The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849, or Bobby Sands: Irish Rebel : A Self-Portrait in Poetry and Polemics Issued on the 10th Anniversary of His Death, for starters. Imagine the editors had written as well A Visit to Palestine . . . Those who find this merely a beginner's introduction to their history do well to supplement this work with more sophisticated writings as appropriate to age and developmental levels. For instance, this door-opening work can easily find extension in such works as Reaching for the Sun : Kids in Cuba, Cuban Kids, Cuba Para Principiantes/Cuba for Beginners, etc. Please do not blame the mango for failing as an apple. This is a beginning book for children and thus better serves our children free of the heavily laden political hostilites which leave our children no peace and opportunity to advance in peace, little hope for peace and happiness together. Otherwise, or in any case, it is an excellent place to begin a conversation with our children. May it at least enhance our reading together with our children, our turning off the television and beginning to model critical reading with our children, an exploration of the power and the limitations of the printing press, a post-modernist assessment of the value and meaning of reading, etc. Let this book be at least a spring board. But do not ban it; do not burn it, oh school board entrusted with the education of our children. The Latin roots of the word Education mean to Lead Forth, not to enforce ignorance and retard learning. Our children upon their long path need and deserve to learn, not to be blinded, lobotom

I support this book because I see Floridians who speak in the "name of freedom" requesting the banning of books. They become the same thing they claim to hate. Hilarious!.

It's about children living in Cuba, not about politics. Childhood can be lived happily even in the worst circumstances. Just think about the children playing with friends, right now, in U.S. occupied Iraq, for that matter.

Cubans living in America are out of touch. Don't let them be as tyranical as Fidel. We live in a free society where people can make choices for themselves. If we were really concerned about making sure every book was 100% accurate and balanced in their representation of the adult world, there wouldn't be any books in elementary school libraries. This should be a tool to teach children about the world, not something that we should ban from children. Support the cause and buy this book!