Because children in some countries are different

NPR's Morning Edition reports that:

the Miami-Dade school board seeks to ban a book on Cuba, saying its portrait of life there is overly positive. A federal judge has ordered Vamos a Cuba [Visit to Cuba] back on school library shelves while the district fights a lawsuit aimed at keeping the book available.

According to the segment, the particular offending passage in the 32-page children's book is the claim that children in Cuba "eat, work, and go to school like you do."

If the school board wins their appeal, maybe we should begin clearing all our books off the shelves. Pretty much every one of them claims, in some way, that children from other countries are just like you.

Update: the AP story can also be found here

tags: multicultural children's books cuba banned books