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Title: clever rhyming, but....
Review: There's a lot to like about the Skyppyjon Jones series. The illustrations, the imaginative cat, the creative use of rhyme and rhythm. But, at the end of the day, I - like many others - am appalled by the explicit linguistic racism and stereotyping. Even my son's preschool teacher said she is uncomfortable with these books for that reason. It's a shame, really. SJJ could have been a classic. In a couple generations, it will (at best) be relegated to a shelf with Little Black Sambo as an example of racism in children's literature.
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