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Adorable Bunny Book (for a good cause, too)

Aww Love this! Thanks for sharing @kipari :appl:

and I have to say a bow tie makes almost everyone look sharper. :cool2:
 
I agree, missy!
I hope this will make it onto all the best-seller lists and raise a lot of money.
(And if I can personally get on Mike Pence's nerves, that's a cool bonus:lol:)
 
kipari said:
I agree, missy!
I hope this will make it onto all the best-seller lists and raise a lot of money.
(And if I can personally get on Mike Pence's nerves, that's a cool bonus:lol:)
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Oh my yes. I hate him as much as Trump. Both very scary men. :blackeye:
 
Well, they wrote him into the book as well:lol-2:IMG_20180320_163714.png
 
Watched John Oliver last night on DVR and saw the Mike Pence / Marlon Bundo clip. One love bunny is white and the other is brown so there's also a nice little interracial component.

Just saw this saying the first printing already sold out and there will be another printing.

John Oliver's Marlon Bundo Book Sells Out In A Day; Another Printing In Works

John Oliver’s new children’s book about Veep Mike Pence’s bunny, Marlon Bundo, has sold out, but another printing is in the works asap, the HBO late-night host told Ellen DeGeneres on her show today.

Oliver’s Bundo book is No. 1 on Amazon, deposing James Comey’s book, while the Pence family’s Bundo book trailed, at No. 5.

Pence’s daughter and wife are taking to TV this week on their book tour for “Marlon Bundo’s Day in the Life of the Vice President.” Last Week Tonight host Oliver is doing same for his competing Bundo book, “A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo,” in which Pence’s pet rabbit falls in love with another male rabbit. All proceeds from Oliver’s book go to The Trevor Project and AIDS United.

Oliver says his book is intended as something he can read to his two-year-old son, painting the world in a more positive light than the “rollercoaster of pain” it is now.

Ellen then made Oliver race to hand copies of his book to her studio audience in under 60 seconds, before presenting the out-of-breath late-night star with a $10,000 donation to The Trevor Project courtesy of HBO.

http://deadline.com/2018/03/john-ol...rabbit-book-ellen-degeneres-video-1202348492/
 
@mary poppins , thank you for the update.
I hope they'll do an animated film as well.
 
An animated film would be great, @kipari!
 
Even kids books need to be partisan I guess? :roll2:
 
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redwood66 said:
Even kids books need to be partisan I guess? :roll2:
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Not really. There have been children's books both supporting and not supporting different family structures for a long time. My generation had a lovely book themed around, "it's ok if your parents are divorced."

Anti-gay, anti-LGBT rights Pence, who is doing a reading of her book at Focus On The Family, chooses to support "traditional" structures while Oliver's takes a more inclusive and modern stance. Similar books, featuring interracal couples, divorced couples, single parents, being raised by grandparents, and other feelings of difference in both children and those who raise them, have published for decades in an effort to make kids feel and become more included and accepted. This is nothing new from either traditionalists or liberals.
 
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I've found children to be pretty open minded and accepting in general. It's obviously the parents who push their agenda and yes, children can be pretty cruel when given a bad example. This goes for both political camps obviously.
So I never sat down my kids specifically at say, age six, to explain all different family models. We try to do this when the topic comes up naturally. And I appreciate a cute and well written and funny bunny story as a nice example for my kids .
We don't have any close family members or friends around that are in same sex marriages. So when we meet the first couple, my kids won't be super surprised and I hope this will be more comfortable of a situation for everyone present.
 
Rhea said:
Not really. There have been children's books both supporting and not supporting different family structures for a long time. My generation had a lovely book themed around, "it's ok if your parents are divorced."
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I agree with this. Books about less traditional families can be a great support to children who are in vulnerable situations because they may feel different from others. When my daughter was growing up, I had many books about adopted children in the house. (My daughter was adopted.) Most of them had animal metaphors. I remember, particularly, The Mulberry Bird and Are You My Mother?.








 
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The audiobook has such a fun cast, that just this once, it may trump (the verb, not the noun) a printed book.
@AGBF I was adopted in the 80's and my parents struggled to find fiction books with that family structure, let alone a cross racial family. I was unaware of how much effort my parents put into making sure I saw our family as 'normal' while growing up until recently. We are NOT normal, but mainly because we are all a bunch of weirdos, nothing to do with the adoption part :loopy:. I think it's great to see so many more examples of different family structures, and diverse protagonists as well.
 
Rhea said:
Not really. There have been children's books both supporting and not supporting different family structures for a long time. My generation had a lovely book themed around, "it's ok if your parents are divorced."

Anti-gay, anti-LGBT rights Pence, who is doing a reading of her book at Focus On The Family, chooses to support "traditional" structures while Oliver's takes a more inclusive and modern stance. Similar books, featuring interracal couples, divorced couples, single parents, being raised by grandparents, and other feelings of difference in both children and those who raise them, have published for decades in an effort to make kids feel and become more included and accepted. This is nothing new from either traditionalists or liberals.
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It's not the books themselves, they are fine. It is the way it is being portrayed as a trolling of Pence's daughter's book (per the article linked) and the comments made by people who love one or the other bashing the other book. This is the ridiculous part for me. I am very tired of the need to put others down who don't agree with you (collective you).
 
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The audiobook has such a fun cast, that just this once, it may trump (the verb, not the noun) a printed book.
@AGBF I was adopted in the 80's and my parents struggled to find fiction books with that family structure, let alone a cross racial family. I was unaware of how much effort my parents put into making sure I saw our family as 'normal' while growing up until recently. We are NOT normal, but mainly because we are all a bunch of weirdos, nothing to do with the adoption part :loopy:. I think it's great to see so many more examples of different family structures, and diverse protagonists as well.
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I am sure that there are many more books available today, especially about diverse adoption situations. (Back when I adopted my daughter it was still difficult for a single person to adopt, let alone a gay couple.) But there were trans-racial and trans-cultural adoptions then. My husband and I had our paperwork ready for The Dominican Republic as well as for Colombia. Had we adopted from there the chances that our adoption would have been trans-racial as well as trans-cultural would have been good. There were a good many adoption books available then (1992), but one had to search for them. None of them was about having two daddies or two mommies. We belonged to The Latin American Parents Association, which had supported us through the adoption procedure. Each January all the families who had adopted the prior year came with the babies they had adopted (and all other family members) to a big party. There was an announcement printed up of all the countries the babies had hailed from. Our daughter, like several other babies, had been born in Colombia. One baby had been born in Connecticut and adopted through Protective Services. (It was not unusual for families who belonged to LAPA to be on a list for domestic adoptions through a charity. It was common for women waiting to adopt to get pregnant! People came to these parties with biological children and Latin American children and children they had previously adopted in Korea.) My daughter was so fair skinned and also blue-eyed that everyone kept assuming she was the baby listed as being born in Connecticut, the one who had been adopted through protective services. It actually made me embarrassed. One woman with three children from Colombia commented on how fair she was-in a completely non-judmnental way-and I cringed. I felt I was supposed to fit in by having a daughter who looked Hispanic. I remember shrugging and saying, "Who knew?" The nice woman patted my arm and said, "It's all right."

Adoption is emotionally complicated. I hope you came through it relatively unscathed, lizakg. :wavey:

Hugs,
Deb
 
Pence's daughter supports John Oliver's parody book about gay rabbit
Pence's daughter supports John Oliver's parody book about gay rabbit
By Alessia Grunberger, CNN
Updated 10:17 PM ET, Thu March 22, 2018

Second daughter Charlotte Pence revealed she's "all for" comedian John Oliver's parody book, which depicts her family's pet rabbit as gay, because the proceeds go to charity.
"I think imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, in a way," Pence said in an interview with Fox Business Network on Tuesday.
"But in all seriousness, his book is contributing to charities that I think we can all get behind. We have two books that are giving to charities that are both about bunnies, so I'm all for it, really," she continued.
Pence also tweeted Wednesday that she's "happy to support charities and important causes" by purchasing the book.
"Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Presents a Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo" was released a day before the Pence family released their own book, "Marlon Bundo's Day in the Life of the Vice President." The parody picture book takes aim at the vice president for his conservative stances on LGBTQ issues, depicting pet bunny Marlon Bundo's budding romantic relationship with another male bunny.
As of Wednesday, the parody was the No. 1 best-seller on Amazon. Oliver said proceeds from his book will benefit the Trevor Project, a suicide hotline for LGBTQ youth, and AIDS United.
The original book about the bunny was written by the vice president's daughter and illustrated by second lady Karen Pence. A portion of the proceeds will benefit A21, a nonprofit dedicated to combating human trafficking, and Tracey's Kids, an art therapy program for pediatric cancer patients.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/22/politics/charlotte-pence-marlon-bundo-parody-book/index.html
 
@AGBF Thanks, I think we all came out ok, my parents were wonderful and open about it. Those get-togethers sound like they were fun! Although it's funny how even adoptive parents can put their foot in it and say something that will make you cringe!

@mary poppins those organisations are great causes as well. Hopefully this whole competition between bunny books will mean both have higher sales because of it, increasing the amount going to charitable causes all around.
 
737lizakg said:
@AGBF Thanks, I think we all came out ok, my parents were wonderful and open about it. Those get-togethers sound like they were fun! Although it's funny how even adoptive parents can put their foot in it and say something that will make you cringe!
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I am glad you had a good family, lizakg. I was not adopted (although I was an unhappy child who, when I was very little, was convinced that I was!). (In later years, my physical resemblance to my father and my brother made such an idea beyond bizarre!)

I had (and still have) a fantastic family. My parents couldn't have been better. But sometimes things happen in life. Things beyond anyone's control.

Big hugs to you!!!
Deb
 
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