It seems that the book "King & King," by Linda De Haan and Stern Nijland, is causing a little controversy in Wilmington, North Carolina. The book published in March 2002 by Tricycle Press, the children's division of Ten Speed Press of Berkeley, California, is a children's story about a prince whose true love turns out to be another prince.

"I was flabbergasted," said parent Michael Hartsell, who confiscated the book their daughter brought home from the school library. Said Hartsell, "My child is not old enough to understand something like that, especially when it is not in our beliefs." Michael and Tonya Hartsell plan to file a complaint with the library committee and are thinking about transferring their daughter to another school.

Read the entire CNN article, published Thursday, March 18, 2004, on-line at http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/03/18/gay.princes.ap/index.html.

The sequel to the book, "King & King Family," was published this year (2004) by Tricycle Press.