Breaks my heart...
I bought this book for my husband for Father's Day, his first with our daughter. My heart literally broke as I read the page "Won't You Dance With Me?". The lines :"Of all the babies you're the fattest one, You big-leg women are a load of fun" are horrifying. In a time and culture where girls are comparing them selves to images in magazines, where they are falsely made to think they need to be thin to be worthy of love and acceptance- who could possibly want to read these words to a young girl. I am returning this book and will boycot all things Garrison Keillor in the future.