October 4, 2015
Dear Bonnie Bader, Grosset & Dunlap, and Penguin Young Readers Group,
Your book, Who Was Christopher Columbus, published in 2013, has major errors in it (p. 4, Kindle edition):
Your Who Was Christopher Columbus is loaded with other problems, too. My suggestion? Withdraw it from publication.
My suggestion to all the people who already bought Bader's Who Was Christopher Columbus? Do not use it with young children. Instead, write to Penguin and ask for your money back, or, use it with older children and adults in a text analysis activity. Read what Bader wrote, and compare it to other sources. A great set of resources for this activity is at the Zinn Education Project website. Another excellent resource is Rethinking Columbus.
You, Ms. Bader, and your editors at Grosset & Dunlap (it is an imprint of Penguin), can do better. I hope you do. Recall the book. Refund the money parents, teachers, and librarians spent on it, too.
And do better.
Sincerely,
Debbie Reese
American Indians in Children's Literature
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