Once upon a time, deep in your upper thigh....   And they all lived flappily ever after.

By Kim Rossi

All hail the giant phallic savior!

Why We Need Vaccines. How Humans Beat Infectious Diseases. Really? Humans have beaten infectious disease? This book was prominently displayed in the Children's section of a public library.  Not just any local library. MINE.  Really it belongs in science FICTION. Someone needs to go on the NAUGHTY LIST. I could barely find a book about Christmas. But every day is Christmas Day in the Church of the Immaculate Vaccination. The KRAMPUS version.

From Amazon:

★ “Rae provides all the information readers want to know [and] skillfully broaches the topic of anti-vaccination…An engaging and informative nonfiction text with all the facts about vaccinations. A must-have for middle school libraries.” ― School Library Journal (SLJ), starred review

Vaccination is one of humanity's most effective and greatest discoveries.

Infections like the plague, smallpox and other deadly diseases have affected and killed people for thousands of years, but the invention of vaccines forever changed our relationship with these diseases. More recently the urgency of developing an effective vaccine during the COVID-19 pandemic brought vaccination to the public's attention. Simmering tensions around vaccine hesitancy, misinformation and mistrust of science came to the forefront.

Although an earlier form of protection against infectious diseases has been practiced for a long time, vaccines have only been around for 200 years. Why We Need Vaccines explores the history of vaccine discovery, the science of how vaccines work and the public-health achievements that vaccines have made possible. It also discusses vaccine mandates and inequality in access to vaccines on local and global scales. It challenges young readers to take responsibility for themselves, their families and their communities so we can all be part of the solution to take down infectious diseases.

Check out the table of contents. Let's add a few chapters, shall we? 

This is not a children's book, despite it saying its for kids 9 - 12. Just in time to make them crave an HPV shot. It's propaganda for Mommy when she brings Johnny and Janey in for story time. Little does she know about the Big Bad Wolf.