Latawnya

Go ahead and laugh at tragedy.

Latawnya, the Naughty Horse, Learns to Say "No" to Drugs is a little marvel featuring horses and drug abuse and aimed at the author's children. Its hero is Latawnya, who is inherently naughty and is described as such since page one. Its pose is reminiscence of a charmless, tl;dr Dr. Seuss who states the same basic idea in three separate sentences one after another. Fortunately, there are captivating illustrations for children with short attention spans. Something Awful discovered this treasure in May 2007 and breathed new life into it.

Lolsuit

In 2010, the author Sylvia Scott Gibson attempted to sue Amazon based on her failure to comprehend Google and Amazon search results, Urban Dictionary for selling merchandise based on their entries, and Wikipedia due to vandalism and because Facebook mirrored a Wikipedia article and Gibson felt that Wikipedia was somehow to blame for all Latawnya-related content hosted on Facebook.

• The lawsuit
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  "The Defendants [Amazon] crossed out the Countries names and my birth name."
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  "amazon.com and their third party is having Granite City Green Guys to illegally publish my book." Google indexed a review, and Gibson misunderstands the search results.

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“	I found this book while shopping for my donkeys. Since I don't raise horses, but donkeys, I was worried that the story and illustrations would be too horse-centric for my donkeys. But once I read the book I decided that my donkeys probably won't care that it's about horses, since the story is so exciting and the message so uplifting, even for donkeys. Sure, a horse dies in the book, but I can just tell the donkeys that's what happens to bad horses (and donkeys) when they smoke drugs and drink. "Stay away from the horses!" I'll tell them, since obviously Latawnya's species is too weak and drug-addled to act like responsible donkeys. But there's more to the message as well-- donkeys (and horses) need to think for themselves rather than follow the popular donkeys around. When my donkeys are teenagers and some horse tries to get them on the drugs, they will know better and will say "No thanks, donkeys don't smoke drugs" thanks to this book. What more could the parent of a donkey want? (Other than to get the horses out of the neigh-bor-hood.) A good message for donkeys AND horses. Thanks to the author for writing such an engaging, important book for all parents of hoofed animals (including donkeys and horses) who are worried about smoking the drugs and drinking the alcohol.	„
—Granite City Green Guy

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See also

• @horse_ebooks

External links

• Something Awful (includes the book's contents)
• TV Tropes
• Everything TOW won't tell you
• Gibson v Amazon complaint documents
• Go visit TOW if you have to

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