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Post subject:  Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 11:58 am |
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Perhaps so. But, as I said to someone in a related post earlier, to make a children's book which twists the facts of an historical event, even under the presumption that "hey, it's just a children's book...it's not as if THEY'RE going to know the difference", to me, is bad. Little kids are smarter than we generally give them credit for. And they remember. Information processed at a very young age IS stored in the memory...and can be tapped later (even through vague recollections). After all, the time when our species does most of its learning and retention is in early childhood.
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:50 am |
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Seriously this book was probably written by somebody who watched the movie and said "Woot! I wanna write book about it!!" 
Still, it was labeled non-fiction? Then somebody got the facts mixed up.......
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 12:26 pm |
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If it's not a book related to the Universal film version, they have no excuse for telling such inaccurate facts. This IS fictional.
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 2:04 am |
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Dreaming Wolf wrote: Seriously this book was probably written by somebody who watched the movie and said "Woot! I wanna write book about it!!" Still, it was labeled non-fiction? Then somebody got the facts mixed up....... You could be right, they could have seen the movie, done no reasearch and just wrote about the real Balto. But I don't know why someone would write this and how it got published, but I do know that it is nonsense and it is fiction, even if it is labeled 'non-fiction'.
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 9:36 am |
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Highland Wolf wrote: Dreaming Wolf wrote: Seriously this book was probably written by somebody who watched the movie and said "Woot! I wanna write book about it!!" Still, it was labeled non-fiction? Then somebody got the facts mixed up....... You could be right, they could have seen the movie, done no reasearch and just wrote about the real Balto. But I don't know why someone would write this and how it got published, but I do know that it is nonsense and it is fiction, even if it is labeled 'non-fiction'. Agreed. I wonder where I could get a copy of this book.... be interesting to read it myself
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 4:41 am |
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Dreaming Wolf wrote: Highland Wolf wrote: Dreaming Wolf wrote: Seriously this book was probably written by somebody who watched the movie and said "Woot! I wanna write book about it!!" Still, it was labeled non-fiction? Then somebody got the facts mixed up....... You could be right, they could have seen the movie, done no reasearch and just wrote about the real Balto. But I don't know why someone would write this and how it got published, but I do know that it is nonsense and it is fiction, even if it is labeled 'non-fiction'. Agreed. I wonder where I could get a copy of this book.... be interesting to read it myself Good  It would be interesting to see this book and read it, but if it was up to me, I wouldn't buy it. I know it would be rubbish and there would be no point in having it. But thats only my opinion.
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:41 am |
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Highland Wolf wrote: Dreaming Wolf wrote: Highland Wolf wrote: Dreaming Wolf wrote: Seriously this book was probably written by somebody who watched the movie and said "Woot! I wanna write book about it!!" Still, it was labeled non-fiction? Then somebody got the facts mixed up....... You could be right, they could have seen the movie, done no reasearch and just wrote about the real Balto. But I don't know why someone would write this and how it got published, but I do know that it is nonsense and it is fiction, even if it is labeled 'non-fiction'. Agreed. I wonder where I could get a copy of this book.... be interesting to read it myself Good It would be interesting to see this book and read it, but if it was up to me, I wouldn't buy it. I know it would be rubbish and there would be no point in having it. But thats only my opinion. Yah that's true..... but then you could always go through with a yellow highlighter marker and run it over all the mistakes, that would be fun ^^
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Dreaming Wolf wrote: Yah that's true..... but then you could always go through with a yellow highlighter marker and run it over all the mistakes, that would be fun ^^
Yea, but you would need a pretty big marker to do so
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 6:51 am |
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Highland Wolf wrote: Dreaming Wolf wrote: Yah that's true..... but then you could always go through with a yellow highlighter marker and run it over all the mistakes, that would be fun ^^ Yea, but you would need a pretty big marker to do so Tehe, that's probably completely accurrate.
Hey how did this book get past publishers as non-fiction, usually the publisher will check the information to make sure.....
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:20 am |
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Dreaming Wolf wrote: Tehe, that's probably completely accurrate.
Hey how did this book get past publishers as non-fiction, usually the publisher will check the information to make sure.....
Thats what I am so confused about  Possibly the publishers didn't know a thing about Balto and just thought, yea, this stuff is true. I'm not really sure.
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 8:34 am |
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Highland Wolf wrote: Dreaming Wolf wrote: Tehe, that's probably completely accurrate.
Hey how did this book get past publishers as non-fiction, usually the publisher will check the information to make sure..... Thats what I am so confused about Possibly the publishers didn't know a thing about Balto and just thought, yea, this stuff is true. I'm not really sure. Hmm check this link out, I think it's related to the book in some way but I have no idea what it is: http://www.broward.k12.fl.us/k12programs/ciss/harcourt/hradocs/G3/3-2-1_Balto_The_Dog_W_739B8.pdf
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