Irregular Books

The Earth Is Good is simple, and needed, providing children with a reassuring natural respite that is probably missing from their everyday lives.

How To Be A Bad Birdwatcher isn’t really about birdwatching particularly, but about the practice of watching in general, as considered through the specific case of people who enjoy watching birds.

Teenager discovers that he is going to become a shape-shifting monster like his father. How very psychological.

Greg Anrig works for a prominent think tank. That sounds like an asset, but it turns into a burden when Anrig cannot break away from logical arguments about how what ideas people should support. If only Anrig could embrace the power of persuasion, he’d be a lot closer to providing a useful plan for progressive regrouping. In politics, being correct matters much less than being perceived as correct.

The dinosaurs in this children’s book are docile implements for human domination of the Earth. What would they be fed in order to fuel their gigantic appetites? Where would all the vegetable matter for the sauropods come from, what with all the dinosaur-powered construction covering nature up with asphalt? Who would provide the flesh for tyrannosaurus work horses to feast upon?

If you care about kids, read Beating the Devil Out of Them, consider its arguments, and act to end the laws that make it legal for teachers to beat their students for displeasing them.

I’ve read The Golden Compass, and I’m telling you that from what I’ve read, the book is not atheist, and doesn’t promote atheism. For anyone to be provoked into becoming atheist by reading The Golden Compass would be extremely unlikely. That’s just not what the book is about.

If Lao Tzu had meant to have his poetic classic illustrated by cartoon characters, he would have done so himself. On the other hand, Lao Tzu is just about as much an historical fiction as Jesus, and he certainly isn’t alive today, so who cares? Lao Tzu isn’t here, if he ever really lived [...]

Fuzzy Yellow Ducklings goes only half the distance. Many publishers of children’s books focus on the illustrations - after all, it is illustration that sets kids’ books apart from those written by adults. Also, the illustrations are usually the first thing noticed by parents flipping through the piles of books for children for sale at their local book stores.

It turns out that God is actually a big fan of The Golden Compass, and has personally endorsed the book.

Here’s a video of God giving his endorsement of The Golden Compass, to prove