When I wrote my earlier post on John Smelcer’s The Trap, I accepted the truth of the description of the author on its dust jacket as being “of Ahtna Athabaska descent.” In doing so, I’d forgotten an earlier discussion on the child_lit listserv in which Debbie Reese raised the question of whether or not this [...]
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Lack of Self-Awareness
From an ad for the OneXone foundation in the Globe and Mail, July 31, 2008:
Join Academy® Award-winner Matt Damon, Grammy® Award-winner Wyclef Jean and friends at historic Maple Leaf Gardens®, to honour the message that life belongs to everyone.
The Academy®, The Grammies®, and the Gardens® are apparently, then, not part of life?
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