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Anything designed specifically for children is suspect. As parents, we should be trying to create the next generation of adults, not creating children. It's one of the reasons for all the pathetic adults today; they were never taught to be adults, they were taught to be children.

I don't read anything to my kids that I don't enjoy reading for myself.

Go for the hobbit. That was the gold standard for me, my father, *and* my grandfather for a children's book when we were growing up. And I still enjoy reading it. Its child friendly but far from infantile. It encourages thinking, it has complex world-building, etc. When they reach pre-adolescence give them lotr.

Furthermore, I consider that Israel must be destroyed

Just two men living together, like normal...

I didn't notice it as inappropriate as a child. It didn't make me want to be a bussy buster.

I like the Redwall series. No wokeness, author was an Englishman, assume the different animals aren't different races but just different kinds of Whites while the "bad" animals are different races

The only stories you need to read to children are Aesop's Fables.

If you need a good “reader” for your kids I recommend the old ones, beacon readers or McGuffey. No funny business. If you need books to read to them try the original Pinocchio. Truly excellent. All the EB White are good but especially Trumpet of the Swan— one of the rare books that’s actually much better on audiobook. Read by the author with actual trumpet music. Amazing. Also it’s a story about what it means to be a man.

I've never noticed anything objectionable about these books.

I mean ... if you want to invent that this has a deeper meaning, saying that two diametrically opposed species within the amphibian clade can be friends that are obvious shades of color different....