What kind of messages are our children’s books sending with pages like these?
I mean, come on, green or not, the alligator is not the puppy’s friend. The alligator is a carnivore known to come out of Floridian canals to take puppies for a little death roll and snack. They do not sit on the sides of the canals and make garlands like a shepherd and his love.
So you’ll pardon me if I censor my offspring’s literature to provide common sense adages like The grass is green. Oh, crap, it’s an alligator. I knew we shouldn’t have come to Florida for vacation. Cover your ears, Spot, Daddy has to shoot the primordial enemy of man.
Call me insensitive and, yea, prejudiced for not liking things of other colors which would eat me if given the opportunity.
I think you should write a children’s book the way you think life OUGHTA be.
I would buy one!