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when i was reading today i saw a book claled "magical creatures" on teh table. i thougt i had left it there but there was a scrap of paper saying " mrs HGHHG said this was an unsuitable reading book for her dd"

it was a book of greek myths

There is NO HOPE

LOL

Christian? Or too scary?

Did it have the unexpurgated Leda and the swan story? Some parents last year (y3) were unhappy with the story of the conception of the Minotaur - Zeus sneaking in a quick one via a golden shower or some such......

oh she aint scarey
there was some fref to a chimera needing to be killed
fgs thee kid is9

meant she aint christian

oh dont (cringe)
i did it with Sherlock Holmes for DD age 7

what if they made notes about ME

i dont htink they made notes
i thoguht it was one of my kids books left over.

was s homes scarey?
that hound of the baskervbilles scarred me for life

Just know that my brother has to be very careful in his choice of book for one of his pupils because her parents won't allow any non-Christian mythology.

liek ours who wont let hteir kdis EAT wiht other kids
i knwo ive got tobe inclusive but REALLY

yes it was scary - "ripped the savage beast's throat out" etc

This always makes me laugh. I know of three occasions when parents have complained about their children's reading books. And every single time it was because the parents had banned x, y, or z; so the first time the child was allowed free choice (from a huge range of books), that's what they made a beeline for.

Is she Plymouth Brethren cod?

With long hair and no makeup?

thast th one
i knwo its ncie to be ncie about religion but i ifn theirs totally agianst all my liberal democratic principles

On a separate but related strand, ds keeps bringing different versions of The Little Match Girl to read at home - it's awfully sad and I have to explain at the end that she's dead even though her body is still there. Not sure how to explain the concept of a death and a soul to a five yr old.

I am happy for my son to read anything as long as he was reading.

I remember 'fudge' by Judy Blume being banned when I was at school because the boy picked his nose and wiped it on some papaer in his desk.

Didn't stop us getting our hands on forever in our early teens

I am a boy character in the book not a boy at school

sorry ignore me - multi tasking getting children to bed + mumsnet = typing rubbish.

will stop posting now

The Brethren are OK, loads of them back home, we were all a bit (they like to accost you on the street outside Argos) but when one my age (we were 18) opted out and started with the mini skirts, and the family were still OK, I thought well- that's good enough imo.

I ahd to send some books back as they were about snakes (I am hugely phobic), they sent mroe home next week with a note saying it was a joke.

Har bloody har.

I buy the yr2 kids mythology books as gifts, was that not OK then? Bloody odd. Classics, FFS

nnnnnggg

closed minds

I still remember at age 5 being in floods of tears and having nightmares about fires over some book about 2 cave children (Lok and Shan?).

My Mum had to send the book back saying don't give it to me again.

i rememerb the openign sequence of tarka the otter
shudder

I remember blubbing and morbidly dwelling on Watership Down. But I don't think I should have been shielded from it.