and over-protective to think that this school reading book is inappropriate?

[mrsrawlinson]

DD is 6. The book she came home with today was called 'Predators'. It was a bit graphic from the outset I thought, but it was pg.14 where I called a halt:

"Some of the herd (of wildebeest) run away from the river. The hyenas follow. The hyenas quickly target a young wildebeest. The calf is scared. It tries to rejoin its mother but the hyenas cut it off. They pile onto the terrified animal and tear it to pieces."

Not exactly pleasant bedtime reading, is it? DH disagrees and reckons it's only right she should be learning about nature, altough I've gone ahead and written a bit of a snotogram about it in DD's reading record anyway.

Is it me?

don't see the problem/

But I would say - never take them on safari - as if you're lucky enough to see an animal hunting they may be scarred for life

Someone mentioned chicken licken - I LOVED that book when I was little (pre-school age) - in fact I loved it so much my mum can still recite most of it from memory 30yrs later .

as a teacher it is very hard to make sure all reading books have appropriate content..this is espeically true when children have a higher reading age than their chronolgical age.
I simply don't have time to read all the reading books myself - although I do skim through them (most of the time). also like most of the disucssion here some children relish a bit of gore (often boys), others don't like it (sensitve girls - like my dd1) ...
if you feel it is not appropriate for your child don't read it! SIMPLE.... or see it as a good discussion afterwards
BTW the ORT book with guns and being kidnapped isn't real - they are making a film.

I really can't see the problem. I have read ds dinosaur books since he was around 3 and they are far more graphic.

My dc's probably wouldn't have had a problem with the book, however my DD did get very upset about the work they did on the WW1&2 and Crimean when she was 6/7. She needed constant reassurance that there wasn't going to be a war and that both nannies lived through WW2 as little girls and were okay.
My niece had nightmares when they covered the egyptians in juniors.