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 disgusting October 27, 2008
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is disgusting. No wonder America is so screwed up. Look what people are reading to their children! Every nation who's ever embraced homosexuality has been destroyed. Just look back through history and you'll see. Is that what we want to happen to America? For the nation to crumble from the inside out because people are losing their morality? I guess the writer thinks so.
 Just sent a copy to Wasilla Public Library September 15, 2008
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
Apparently they (she) didn't manage to ban this book, but it seems that activists are taking out the book on loan and defacing it. Some people don't know what public libraries are for. If you don't want a copy in your god's church, that's your decision. If you don't want a copy in our public libraries.....write a letter. Or just get over it.
This is a book that is meant to help people living in the real world, where people really are born both gay and good.
I Cried September 5, 2008
15 out of 37 found this review helpful
The themes of adult selfishness, divorce, and same-sex union converge in "Daddy's Roommate." This story is particularly sad. The little narrator here has no name! This isn't surprising, since children in these books exist to affirm their parents. What is alarming is that the educators, who stand firm behind these books, and who routinely tout the self-esteem catechism in schools, overlooked the sagging sense of self exhibited by the books' tots.
The nameless narrator tells us his parents have just divorced. With nary a reference to the sadness of this event, he blurts out; "Now there's somebody new at Daddy's house. Daddy and his roommate Frank live together, work together, eat together, sleep together." From here on in it's pretty much detailing the good times the dwarfed child spends with the two larger-than-life men.
Mommy, like the child, is a conduit in the service of the men's outing. She tells no-name boy that Daddy and Frank are gay and that "being gay is just another kind of love." "Daddy and his roommate are very happy together," chants the child, "and I am happy too!" So long as Dad has found his true self, so will the boy arrange his feelings accordingly. It's a cruel farce that has a child spouting homilies in the service of a parent's project.
What would I have considered an honest narrative?
"My name is Ben. I am very sad. My mom and dad are divorcing. Frank is my dad's new friend. My mom and dad held me tight. I told them I wanted my old home back again, and I cried."
 Positive and Family Friendly! November 5, 2006
9 out of 16 found this review helpful
I'm not sure that the books message that "gay" is a different kind of love is exactly right, I think this might be more simplistic than necessary...the author might have gone a bit further in this and added that many couples are a man and woman, but that some people fall in love with people of the same gender. Additionally, while I appreciate the humor in the use of the word Roommate to mean lover, this book is aimed at very young children (up to age 5) and the use here could be confusing to them when it comes to people living as actual roommates without being lovers. It might have been more prudent to use a different word here, to avoid confusion for children down the line. I positively love the books portrayal of the couple in this story as carrying on the same daily routines as everyone else (shaving together, eating meals, sleeping, reading the paper) and enjoying a strong and loving relationship with his son, which brings home that this is just as normal a way to live and be as any other romantic configuration. Ovearall, I think Daddy's Roommate has a wonderful family friendly message and I'm quite pleased to have had the opportunity to read this to my children! I'd recommend it in a heartbeat!
Perfect! June 22, 2006
8 out of 15 found this review helpful
As a child of gay parents, I wish I had this book when I was growing up in the 70's. !!! It is perfect! Thanks soooo Much! Hopefully, we'll soon be able to embrace love and do away with our violence praising culture....
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