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The Very Silly Mayor
by Tom Tomorrow

The Very Silly Mayor
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Author: Tom Tomorrow
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-10-01
ISBN: 1935439014
Number of pages: 36
Publisher: Ig Publishing

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Book Review: A True Gem at the Right Time
Summary: 5 Stars

Politics has been going off the rails in this country lately; screaming on cable TV, talk radio hate speech, town meetings turning into brawls. Think of the children!

Tom Tomorrow has - and he's crafted a wonderful tale that captures the essence of politics for children with Zen-like clarity. The very idea of government is under attack from some quarters, but Tom Tomorrow makes a case for it in a very straight forward and non-ideological way that children will have no trouble understanding. If we're going to have government, we're going to have people running it, and people are people.

When the Very Silly Mayor - just trying to do his job - comes up with some very silly ideas, we get to see what happens when accountability breaks down. Tom Tomorrow shows how the way people act can make a problem with government worse, and how they can fix it too. There's no violence, no name calling - in fact everyone is very polite - but some good lessons are there to be learned. The ending is classic!

Long time readers of This Modern World will recognize many of the characters and Tom Tomorrow's distinctive art work. (The colors are very bright!) It's a wonderful morality tale that both instructs and entertains - and works at levels children and adults will both enjoy.

Highly recommended, and a great gift for parents with children old enough to be read to at night.

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