Author Adam Pottle does not want you to buy his book
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Saskatoon author Adam Pottle has just published his first children’s book, but he’s urging people not to buy it. He tells us the book contains an illustration that he says is offensive, and undermines the book’s message of inclusion and celebration of deaf culture — but the publisher won’t change it.
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