Leaving aside the fact that Reading Rainbow is no longer in production, what do you think? Even the blogger says he loved Stitches. But it is true that it was published an adult book.
I haven't read it yet. I read Maus
One thing's for sure: all the controversy is going to get a lot more people talking about Stitches than if the publisher had just nominated it in the adult non-fiction category. [Full disclosure: do you think they knew that when they did it?]
You can read more here, and even look at an 11-page excerpt.