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NEW YORK CITY – The world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books is heavily promoting a pro-transgender book designed for students as young as third grade. The Scholastic Corporation has sent school teachers and librarians 10,000 copies of the book, entitled   George , which was written by self-described "queer activist" Alex Gino.  In the children's book , Gino tells a story of a 10-year-old boy who doesn't feel like a boy, so he tells people he's really "Melissa." Scholastic's website says the target audience for the transgender book is elementary children from 3rd to 7th grade. Gino creates a sympathetic conflict to draw the young reader in by telling of a class play on   Charlotte's Web . The book reads, "George really, really, REALLY wants to play Charlotte. But the teacher says she [meaning George] can't even try out for the part...because she [George] is a boy." NPR, in an interview wi

The National Library Board of Singapore pulled several homosexuality-endorsing children's books from library shelves last week after public complaints that the books did not reflect the board's official pro-family policies. Complaints about two of the books were posted on social media by a group that also organizes opposition to Singapore's annual “ Pink Dot ” homosexual festival. According to the Facebook  page  of "We are Against Pinkdot in Singapore," Teo Kai Loon had e-mailed the library board to voice his concerns over two children’s books titled  And Tango Makes Three  and  The White Swan Express . The first book portrays two male penguins in a zoo that hatch and raise a young penguin. The second book revolves around adoption of Chinese children by Americans and features a single mother and a lesbian couple among its characters. Teo subsequently posted an email response from the board’s chief librarian, Ms. Tay Ai Cheng, explaining the two book