I don’t know why there is so much fear and shame associated with human sexuality. I find this deliberate denial of the essence of life to be ignorant and appalling. It’s as if they need to be cleansed of all their sinful humanity. Most of the dolls, both, Fine Art and children’s dolls, though try to imitate human form, are sterilized through a complete removal of sex organs. The dolls are more anatomically correct than your average Barbie doll why was it important to include detailed genitalia? In an interview with Pixelsurgeon, Marina explains: In my continuing perseveration with Barbie and Ken’s relationship problems comes this story (via Boing Boing) about Marina Bychokova, doll maker extraordinaire.
What makes this book even more worthwhile is that these are tales that actually happened to a young child - in a part of the world far from the cities and the skyscrapers of North America.I’ve long suspected that Ken’s permanently affixed plastic underwear was the real deal breaker with Barbie. Her life was saved thanks to the efforts of Skipper, Alexander and a local medicine man.Īll of these are stories that will captivate young readers and broaden their horizons. The capybara is the largest rodent on Earth and can weigh as much as 66 pounds.Īnd finally, there is the tale of Alexander's Aunt Betty, who was bitten one day by a bushmaster, a highly venomous snake. Once again, it was Skipper to the rescue, capturing the jaguar and releasing it well away from the village. Then, there is the story of Alexander's pet capybara named Pearl, which was attacked one day by a jaguar. Grandfather Skipper and his friends captured the snake and took it up-river to release it. He and his mother Barbara then discovered that a giant anaconda snake had made a new home in a pile of lumber beneath their house. One day, Alexander was gathering chicken eggs, only to discover that a chicken and a couple of ducks were missed from the yard. Skipper takes young Alexander fishing - and they return from a day on the water with a 300-pound Arapaima, the largest scaled, freshwater fish in the world.
The central characters in Alexander's Amazon Adventures are the young Alexander and his grandfather Skipper, who runs a sawmill in the Guyanese village of Clemwood. This book will delight youngsters because it tells stories that will take them by surprise. Alexander's Amazon Adventures is a book written for youngsters, but it is also a book written with a singular purpose in mind - to make people more aware of their natural world and the increasing threat to the planet's environment and its wildlife. He's now the father of two children, Christina and Alexander, and he has just published a new book, Alexander's Amazon Adventures, that recalls his growing-up years. That's where Paul Gopal grew up, in a small village in Guyana, in the 1950s. Life for a child in the cities of North America is vastly different than it is growing up in the jungle that surrounds the Amazon River in South America. Alexander's Amazon Adventures will captivate young readers and broaden their horizons.Īs humans living under the same sun and the same moon, on Planet Earth, we don't all live the same way.
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