There are dangers inherent in choosing a book for your child that you remember fondly from your own childhood. I present you with The Travels of Babar:
Oh, I know!! Babar is awful! I got my old copy out to read to the kids and had to make up the whole story. "Oh look! What a funny game they're playing!"
Ah, Values Dissonance,as the folks over at TV Tropes put it. (I highly recommend TV Tropes, by the way: crowd-sourced literary criticism with quite a bit of savvy, for all its casualness.)
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HAAAAAAAA
Holy cannibals!
Oh, I know!! Babar is awful! I got my old copy out to read to the kids and had to make up the whole story. "Oh look! What a funny game they're playing!"
Eh - it happens! I still love the Little House books even though Ma has some disturbing thoughts about "Indians."
awesome!! I love these posts!
Oh, my most disturbing Babar moment is in the original when the king eats the bad mushroom and dies. NIGHTMARES. Still.
Ah, Values Dissonance,as the folks over at TV Tropes put it. (I highly recommend TV Tropes, by the way: crowd-sourced literary criticism with quite a bit of savvy, for all its casualness.)
Thanks for the smile this morning!
Wow! So this is a childs book?
Awkward :P
Did you know that Curious George smokes? That was a bit of a shocker.
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