Pages

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Library book fails, cont.

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:

Photobucket

10 comments:

Maggie said...

HAAAAAAAA

Erica said...

Holy cannibals!

Becca said...

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!"

Kelsey said...

Eh - it happens! I still love the Little House books even though Ma has some disturbing thoughts about "Indians."

Heather R said...

awesome!! I love these posts!

natalie said...

Oh, my most disturbing Babar moment is in the original when the king eats the bad mushroom and dies. NIGHTMARES. Still.

Anonymous said...

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.)

LJS said...

Thanks for the smile this morning!

LauraJayne91 said...

Wow! So this is a childs book?
Awkward :P

KarenAZ said...

Did you know that Curious George smokes? That was a bit of a shocker.