“I can’t help but ask myself what is so controversial”

The Trump administration banned Julianne Moore’s children’s book “Freckleface Strawberry” by schools from 2007, which are operated by the Ministry of Defense, the star “Weit from From Heaven”, which was shared on Instagram on Sunday morning.

“It is a big shock to find out for me that my first book” Freckleface Strawberry “was banned by the Trump administration from schools that are managed by the Ministry of Defense,” wrote Moore. “” Freckleface Strawberry “is a semi -autobiographical story about a seven -year -old girl who does not like her freckles, but finally learns to live with them when she realizes that she is different” just like everyone else “. It is a book that is I wrote for my children and other children to remind them that we are all fighting, but are united by our humanity and our community.

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The official summary for “Freckleface Strawberry” is: “If you have freckles, you can try the following things: 1) Let them disappear. Unless scrubbing doesn’t work. 2) Cover them. Unless her mother write to her for the use of a marker. 3) disappear. Um, where are you going? Oh, there you are. There is another thing that you can do: 4) Live with them! Because the things that make you different make you too. From the celebrated actress Julianne Moore and the award -winning illustrator Leuyen Pham comes a delightful story of a little girl who is different … just like everyone else. “

Moore, graduate of the DOD-led Frankfurt American High School and daughter of a Vietnam veteran, added that she was particularly sad that “children like me will grow up with a parent and a (dodea) school will be attended if You will not have access to a book written by someone whose life experience is so similar. “

“I can’t help but ask myself what is so controversial about this picture book that it was banned by the US government,” continued Moore. “I am really sad and never thought that I would see this in a country in which freedom of speech and expression is a constitutional law.”

Moore referred to the non -profit literary activist group Pen America for the ban on it. Kathleen Krulls Ruth Bader Ginsburg Picture Book “No Truth Without Ruth” and Ellis Nutts “Nicole” were noticed together with “Freckleface Strawberry”.

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