re: The PC police continue their assault. Current target--classic fairy tales.

Progressives are the weakest people on the planet. The men are physically and mentally weak.

Little Black Sambo was literally my favorite book growing up.
I think I demanded it’s rereading to me no fewer than 1000 times.
My copy is so worn, the pages feel like fabric.
I treasure it.

NEVER did I think about the boy being black.
I thought he was clever, funny, and brilliant.
Through a child’s eyes, the story is all about winning.

We do such a disservice to children when we marginalize their intelligence.
Furthermore, adults erroneously view every situation through a “grown up” filter, rather than recognizing the fact that kids just see the big, innocent picture.

Shame on the guilty parties.

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as the series went on, the Harry Potter books became progressively less children-oriented.

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The readers were growing up, and the characters and their stories grew with the readers.

Who the frick green lights these stories?

The original illustrations don’t look anything like the minstrel-esque ones we are used to seeing. There are multiple modern republishings that replace them without changing a word of the story.