"She said that that was what he wrote, and I said: 'Fine with me. Leo had sent her an e-mail earlier in the week, alerting her to Bill Martin Jr.'s listing on the Web site as the author of "Ethical Marxism." Leo's note, however, also said she hadn't read the book. Hardy said she was trusting the research of another board member, Terri Leo, when she made her motion and comments about Martin's writing. The book on Marxism was written by Bill Martin, a philosophy professor at DePaul University in Chicago.īill Martin Jr.'s name would have been included on a list with author Laura Ingalls Wilder and artist Carmen Lomas Garza as examples of individuals who would be studied for their cultural contributions. who wrote the "Brown Bear" book in 1967, never wrote anything political, unless you count a book that taught kids how to say the Pledge of Allegiance, his friends said this week. Board member Pat Hardy, who made the motion, cited books he had written for adults that contain "very strong critiques of capitalism and the American system." In their haste to sort out the state's social studies curriculum standards last week, the State Board of Education tossed children's author Martin, who died in 2004, from a proposal for the third-grade section. What do the authors of the children's book "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" and a 2008 book called "Ethical Marxism: The Categorical Imperative of Liberation" have in common?īoth are named Bill Martin and, for now, neither is being added to Texas schoolbooks.
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