and there's a strange sound in her voice-- it was ruth sherman, the teacher, the white teacher who had been chased out of the classroom for reading this book to her class of african-american and latino children. she had shared the book in september. it was november. one parent became upset, returned to the school with 50 people, called all the major networks-- so they had cameras out in front of the school-- and went into the school and chased her out into the cameras so that you actually got the-- the pictures going around the world in about ten minutes. and she--and this was her voice that night. she said she--everybody told her not to call me. she found me on the internet, but she was determined to call me, because she wanted to know, "what did i do wrong?" there were a couple of interesting twists, too, in that they weren't objecting to the book so much as the photocopies of the book, which meant they were looking at pictures that were much more dark and contrasted. much darker. and the people who objected to it were generally african-american parents? were 100% african americans.