Inappropriate book for school??

[pinheadlarry]

Dd (5) teacher gives a book to take home every week
This weeks book was a little disturbing ..

I was reading it , got to the end and my heart skipped a beat

I Dont know if im being dramatic or not, I just blinked and closed the book and dd wasnt paying attention anyway so i dont think she noticed the ending ..

Mr wolf and the 3 bears by Jan Fearnley?

The book starts out normal with Mr wolf and grandma planning a birthday for baby bear
They bake cakes and sandwiches, clean the house the whole shabang

And then..Goldilocks gatecrashes the party eats all the food, ruins pass the parcel and is being rude to everyone

Grandma "smiled and got to her feet slowly" and suggests a game of hide and seek

She "takes a long time" to find everyone and finds everyone except goldilocks??

Everyone is saying how rude goldilocks is for leaving the party

Grandma says never mind and then she says "ive got a surprise"
She goes in to the kitchen and comes back carrying this gigantic GOLDEN pie , where the crust resembles goldilocks curly golden locks..

Mr Wolf says lets gobble it whilst its still hot and Grandma replies
"Not just yet, i think this is a dish best served cold"

As they wait for the pie to cool Grandma wolfs giggling to herself in the background like a psycho
And says " save me a big peice, a very big peice im starving "

On the last page theres recipes from the party and one of them is "grandmas golden pie"
Its giving normal instructions to make and roll the dough and "add filling of your choice"

Beneath that it has a list of grandmas special ingredients
.including things like
cheese and onion
Cayenne pepper
And it says "one naughty girl"
And "one bothersome boy"
Next to it says "oh grandma you dont mean it do you? Do you???"

Keeping in mind nobody wanted goldilocks at the party but grandma wolf insisted that she comes in ..

AIBU to think that they shouldnt be giving out books like that in yr 1?
Its just abit much i think, imagining grandma wolf chopping up goldilocks and stuffing her into a pie .. geesh

Like the way grandma wolf smiles and giggles after she brutally murders goldilocks and wants a BIG slice of goldilocks pie.. unless that's a direct quote, you're being ridiculous.

They should stick to books about morals and educational content they're trying to Foster a love of reading, not just a skill of being able to decode words and read them. DS7, his favourite book starts when the Cat causes an explosion and the investigating policeman and his dog get caught up in it. The man's head and the dogs body and too injured to the nurse suggests stitching the dogs head onto the policeman's body. And thus you get Dogman, who continues to work for the police but lives in a dog kennel and still largely acts like a dog (cos his brain is a dog). The cat repeatedly escapes from jail too, clones himself and then abandons the clone kid, the dogman ends up taking the kids in and then with a shared custody agreement with the cat who tried to him him in the explosion.

However, given your specific concerns about your child I think it's appropriate to speak to school about whether this is material DD should be reading and asking for them to send out the other books. None of our school reading books are that fun. We just had one about a cougar in the rockies and it was still boring as hell. Otherwise just read it first.

OK now you're over reaching

Pigskin traveling case!

I voted YANBU because Jeffrey Dahmer

YABU

Originally published 2001.

Originally published 2004.

Originally published 1999.

These books are aimed at children aged 3-6 years old, OP. They are totally suitable.

Many of the so called fairy stories have horrendous origins, investigate Sleeping Beauty for a start.
Most children love many stories that adults feel uncomfortable about, we look at them with adult eyes rather than children's.

It’s grandma wolf too. It’s not

Not goldilock’s grandma or something.

You expect the wolves in a fairy story to do things like eat children.

Sounds fab.

Whatever you do, don't read "Not Now Bernard".

The worst Thomas the Tank Engine one is the train who was told he'd never move again and was turned into a generator!

I don't think children mind a bit of gore as a general rule — look at Hilaire Belloc poems.

It really doesn't. Nothing like it.

It's a brilliant book with an ambiguous ending. The whole point - which you do seem to be missing - is that we don't know if she brutally murdered Goldilocks and baked her into a pie or not. We're left to wonder about that, and all the related moral issues from it.

She thoroughly deserved it, though, and those wolves and bears do need to eat meat, and why shouldn't it be a bratty girl in a world where the animals are as conscious as humans?!

😂😂

We had one school book where kids were playing with knives with a baby in a pram. This was year 1!

You need to toughen up OP.

My children had this book when younger and I had to actually explain the ambiguous ending to them (and even then they weren't traumatised) 😂 I really think you're reading too much into it 🫣

Dh and me want to get that book for DS 2 (one we get to enjoy reading !) . OP are you the author drumming up publicity fir a brilliant child's book? 👏

It's all about being embarrassed when kiddo says stuff from these books in public though, she's not actually concerned her child is traumatised or upset at all!

I don't see why you can't say 'yes dear but that only works in books, we can't do it in real life silly!' in response to such suggestions!

I feel the need to buy this series....

Not read this book, but bloody hell, this is why adults shouldn't be allowed to read children's books! 😁
Have you never heard of Hans Christian Andersen, I remember his fairy tales being pretty gruesome, and Aesop's fables too.
Then there was Roald Dahl's revolting rhymes, where I seem to remember Cinderella pulling a pistol out of her knickers 😁
The giants from the BFG used to snatch children from their beds and there'd be a pile of bones underneath the window the next morning.....
My point being where have you been? Did you not read as a child?! They've always been gruesome stories!
As a kid they're usually the best ones lol