Roger Sutton, editor in chief of The Horn Book Magazine offers a definite "thumbs down" on Read All About It! a picture book ostensibly written by Laura Bush and Jenna Bush--in the May 11 New York Times Book Review.

Speaking of books, VSSE is offering a combined deal to people who hate to write checks: Send me $27, and I'll send you:

• my new book, When Childhood Collides with NCLB;
• a subscription to Substance, a monthly based in Chicago and the only newspaper of the education resistance.
• A Roadblock in Vermont's Design for Education, which details Vermont's application for a Reading First grant. The time is ripe to protest this burden, and this 30-page booklet offers both ammunition for resistance and a rich alternative to federal intervention.
• I will put a copy of Roger Sutton's review of the BUsh book in the package.

Efforts at resistance must be supported.

Stamps are going up on Monday, so get that check in the mail.

Please send me an e-mail that you want this package, as I am ready to mail an envelope of subscriptions to Substance.

Susan Ohanian

susano@gmavt.net

P. O. Box 26

Charlotte, VT 05445