MIAMI -- A review committee recommended Monday that a children's book about traveling to Cuba should stay on the shelves of Miami-Dade school libraries.

The Spanish-language travel book "Vamos a Cuba" or, "A Visit to Cuba," was pulled from Marjory Stoneman Douglas Elementary School after a parent who emigrated from Cuba said the book doesn't accurately represent life in the country.

"He finds it very offensive, given his experiences living in Cuba, and so he's asked us to reconsider having it on the shelves in one of our elementary schools," said Joe Garcia, spokesman for Miami-Dade County Public Schools.

The book is geared toward second- and third-grade readers, and details the events and institutions in Cuba born under Fidel Castro's regime.

The book contains images of smiling children wearing uniforms of Cuba's communist youth group and a carnival celebrating the Cuban revolution of 1959.

In a letter to the school board, Superintendent Rudy Crew stated that the book paints those events in a benign way.

Some Miami-Dade school board members have voted to have the book removed, saying it is full of "prejudices" and "distortions."

But others question the removal based on political ideas.

Howard Simon, with the American Civil Liberties Union, said he wonders if the school district is jumping the gun because of one disgruntled parent. No other complaints about the book have been reported.

"In the end, we have to be true both to the Constitution and we have to be true to what's good for the education of the children," said Simon. "You don't educate children in this country by keeping information from them."

An English-language edition of the book is titled "A Visit to Cuba." Either the English- or Spanish-language book is available at more than 20 schools in the district.

The committee's recommendation, will be forwarded to Crew, who now has five working days to issue a decision .