Millsboro author writes child’s book on threats of socialism

Millsboro’s Charles Carr published the book in July, 2024.

MILLSBORO – Author Charles Carr believes his new book is possibly the most important book a pre-teen could read.

“Sally’s Dress,” released last year, is a heartfelt and educational story that explores the challenges of fairness and personal responsibility.

Carr, a Millsboro resident, wrote the book to create a child-friendly method for parents to steer their young ones away from socialism.

“Over the years, I started seeing more and more of these kids coming out of college, they’re walking around with banners, red banners, the Soviet Union color, and praising democratic socialism and wanting to do down with capitalism,” he said.

In the book, after many hours of hard work selling lemonade, eight-year-old Sally finally has enough money to buy a new dress for her first day at school, but “the evil, socialist mayor confiscates half of her money to redistribute as he sees fit.”

“These kids all come out of college thinking capitalism is evil and it sucks and it’s unfair, and they think socialism is great,” Carr said. “We can’t save those kids, the 20-year-old with those metal plugs all over their face and the tattoos and the blue hair. We can’t save them. But I’m going to try to move forward, use my writing ability to teach, and try to save the next generation from going that way.”

Carr took about a year to write the book, which takes less than a half hour to read, he said.

It’s his first book, and he says he has no favorite authors and no writers were of inspiration to him.

He is semi-retired with a real estate license in New York and Delaware.

“Children are going to turn around to their family and they’re going to initiate the conversation: ‘Grandpa, what is socialism? What is that? I never heard of socialism before’,” Carr said. “Because you’re certainly not going to sit down with your child and just start talking about socialism, but when they read the book, they’re going to ask you, and now that’s your opportunity to educate them, steer them in the right direction, before academia in this country gets a hold of them.”

Carr said he’s sold just under a thousand copies, and the book can be bought online or in local bookstores. He’s working on a sequel to be published by year’s end, likely titled “Sally’s Fate.”