Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
A children's book about unicorns was banned from a school district in Ohio after the book was deemed inappropriate due to the rainbow on its cover.
On April 6, author Jason Tharp was scheduled to appear at the Buckeye Valley Local School District for a reading of his book "It's Okay to Be a Unicorn," which centers on a unicorn who believes himself to be a horse until embracing his true nature.
"I was just shocked – and all from one parent," Tharp told The Washington Post. "I never ran into an issue like this … I never in a million years thought I'd have to defend this book."
For remedy, Tharp offered to read the kids another one of his books – "It's Okay to Smell Good!" – which features a skunk who lives in a foul-smelling world and eventually learns to appreciate the beauty of pleasant scents. However, his proposal was rejected, Tharp said, "because apparently it could be twisted into an agenda as well."
"It's Okay to Be a Unicorn" makes no explicit mention of the LGBTQ+ community, and Tharp believes that conservative parents may have projected their own fears onto the work.
"I'm not here to entertain adults that want to project their own whatever issues onto a children's book," he told a CBS affiliate. "I'm here to create books that inspire kids to dream big, embrace themselves, understand the importance of self-kindness, to really learn how to manage your emotions because it's a confusing world we live in, and being a human is not easy."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/o...id=EMMX&cvid=35aea92c9a454c33a63e1483afb27812
On April 6, author Jason Tharp was scheduled to appear at the Buckeye Valley Local School District for a reading of his book "It's Okay to Be a Unicorn," which centers on a unicorn who believes himself to be a horse until embracing his true nature.
"I was just shocked – and all from one parent," Tharp told The Washington Post. "I never ran into an issue like this … I never in a million years thought I'd have to defend this book."
For remedy, Tharp offered to read the kids another one of his books – "It's Okay to Smell Good!" – which features a skunk who lives in a foul-smelling world and eventually learns to appreciate the beauty of pleasant scents. However, his proposal was rejected, Tharp said, "because apparently it could be twisted into an agenda as well."
"It's Okay to Be a Unicorn" makes no explicit mention of the LGBTQ+ community, and Tharp believes that conservative parents may have projected their own fears onto the work.
"I'm not here to entertain adults that want to project their own whatever issues onto a children's book," he told a CBS affiliate. "I'm here to create books that inspire kids to dream big, embrace themselves, understand the importance of self-kindness, to really learn how to manage your emotions because it's a confusing world we live in, and being a human is not easy."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/o...id=EMMX&cvid=35aea92c9a454c33a63e1483afb27812
