{"id":725,"date":"2006-12-26T04:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-26T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=725"},"modified":"2006-12-26T04:44:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-26T04:44:00","slug":"i-have-a-huge-problem-with-this-childrens-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/26\/i-have-a-huge-problem-with-this-childrens-book\/","title":{"rendered":"I have a huge problem with this children’s book"},"content":{"rendered":"

I work as a contractor at the Board of Education. Every year around Christmastime, the Board has a competition involving holiday-themed door displays. This year, one our office neighbors down the hall did a display based on reading and children’s books. This is one of the books they featured:<\/p>\n

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I have a BIG problem with this book. Just take a look at the front cover (pictured above) and I think you’ll see why. Now, on the cover, we see Froggy reading a bedtime story to his doll. I have no problem with that. But look more closely, over to the right.<\/p>\n

Look at the owl. Look at him peeking through the window, staring at Froggy. That owl is teaching our children that it’s all right to be a peeping tom!<\/p>\n

Furthermore, I’m assuming that Froggy is a young frog, given that adults usually don’t read bedtime stories to their dolls. So, the owl is not only a peeping tom, but a pedophile as well. Who knows what disgusting and perverse thoughts he’s having about young Froggy as he watches the bedtime scene from the window. If I were Froggy’s parents, I’d head to court first thing in the morning and get a restraining order against that owl.<\/p>\n

Normally I don’t support book banning, but I might be able to see the need for it in cases like this, where perverted owls like this one use children’s books as a vehicle to corrupt our nation’s youth.<\/p>\n

Shame on you, Mr. Owl. Shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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