flannery: she was fussing at her. leah's fussing at her, and that hurt her feelings. when these insults fly, our job is to work with the attacker and point out what he's really upset about, what the true source of his anger is so he doesn't transform that aer into prejudice. her horse is beautifuler than ashley's. second child: uh-uh! i did not say that! hendrick: at the same time, victims of such attacks should have ample opportunity to protest and speak up for themselves. insults do hurt, and we can't pretend they don't. woman: her face is looking pretty sad. hendrick: while acknowledging this, the teacher should also make a big point of saying that just because someone says you're something doesn't make it true. while these are not easy or necessarily comfortable situations for us to confront, they can also provide excellent opportunities for us to clear up confusion and to provide accurate information that is vital if our children are to develop healthy attitudes about race, gender, and identity. woman: that sounds like a perfect idea. i bet your bear will make yo

and there's a wonderful quote by flannery o'connor, i always mess it up. this is a paraphrase, but it basically says don't ask me what i think until i've written it down, because i can tell you when i read it. and that's pretty much what happened here. i sort of sat down and wrote the story of what happened with little bookstore, and when i was telling it to a friend of mine, she said, that's funny. you should write that down and send it somewhere. well, sooner or later i found someone to send it to who thought it was both funny and charming, and the little bookstore was published. so what happened after that got really interesting. these three covers here, the one on my left shoulder is from korea and then the american one, and the far one is from portugal. when they came out in those countries, we started getting e-mails from booksellers in those countries, and they started saying some of the same things that we had found when we started our bookstore or as we were fighting the big a and some of the other things that bookstores fight these days, any smal