![]() ![]() I’m going to lay out the facts as they stand and you can judge for yourself whether or not this book does indeed make a major you-can’t-do-that-in-the-21st-century mistake, or if I’m simply suffering from a case of Reading Too Much Into It. ![]() I have a major problem with this story and it’s entirely possible that it’s just in my own head. Why am I going on and on about unintentional messages in works of children’s fiction in preface to talking about this book? Well, here’s the trouble. So round about now you’re trying to figure out what the heck any of this has to do with The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt. You can’t be pointing fingers left and right, claiming authorial intent where there is none. At the end of the day you have to weigh your reactions carefully. Yet along the way a parent or gatekeeper might be worried about the unintentional messages getting pushed along the way. The thing is, picture books are meant to teach and inform our children. Yet for every Denver by David McKee (a picture book about the beauty of trickle down economics) you’ll find fifty people reading WAY too much into something like Rainbow Fish (Communist propaganda) or Click Clack Moo (inculcating kids into unionism). But historically picture books have been places where prejudices are both intentionally and unintentionally on display. A funny statement since what were talking about is literature for people who haven’t even seen a decade of time pass them by. It is possible to read too much into a picture book. ![]()
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