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Hopefully somebody at HarperCollins didn’t send Michelle Malkin the wrong review copy to of Read All About It! or there is going to be hell to pay (or infierno a pagar) because the only thing that Mexican kids need to learn to read is a god damned map to get back to their own god damned country.
For those who are interested in the book, it appears to be Laura Bush’s roman a clef:
“Read All About It!,” as the cartoon pig curled up reading suggests, is an altogether more upbeat venture. It centers around Tyrone, a class-clown type — “I rule the school. . . . I’m king of the monkey bars” — who has lots of friends but doesn’t like to read.
Eventually, through the clever encouragement of a librarian and encounters with characters from his books that come to life, Tyrone develops a love of books.
Unfortunately Tyronne’s love of reading comes too late for him to read Bin Laden Determined To Strike In US and from that point the book kind of gets depressing for children aged 4-8. And everyone else.
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It centers around Tyrone, a class-clown type — “I rule the school. . . . I’m king of the monkey bars” — who has lots of friends but doesn’t like to read.
Would that be “Tyrone” the life-long cheap shot artist who self-pleasures to Abu Ghraib torture flicks?
http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2004/sio…..1_bush.jpg
That kid on the left, leaning up against the pig isn’t reading “My Pet Goat” is he? Because that would be priceless…
Dammit, too late. Well, I’ll take my cheap shot anyway.
and from that point the book kind of gets depressing for children aged 4-8. And everyone else.
…except Tyrone, who gets a new best friend, a helpful goat.
Well, at least little Padres fans can now learn to curse at Hoffman in Spanish as well as English.
Will there be a “Volume 2″ where we find that Tyrone was just faking it and he never did learn to read and he even lost all his friends and ended up with nothing? Because when everyone grew up they realized Tyrone was a putz because an old guy who thinks he’s “class clown” is just stupid and pathetic? I look forward to that.
Eventually, through the clever encouragement of a librarian and encounters with characters from his books that come to life, Tyrone develops a love of books.
Librarians are very clever indeed. Except the one who married he-who-will-not-be-named.
They learned Spanish while playing house with the boys in Argentina, few pictures survive since they were seldom clad in anything except cocaine dust.
In the Spanish version, the pig is named Sanchez. Since he lives in filth (kind of like Jenna without servants), all the children call him “dirty Sanchez”. It’s muy cute.
LOL I thought I was overboard.
I first read that title as “here and queer”, and I thought it was that admission we’ve all been waiting for from Lynne Cheney.
Time to get some bifocals, or to quit reading when I am too tired.
From now on, whenever I see the name “Jenna” in the news, my inner voice will translate it to “Dirty Sanchez”.
Her new nickname!