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100PerCentCod · 18/01/2007 14:26

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

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beckybrastraps · 18/01/2007 14:27

LOL

Christian? Or too scary?

singersgirl · 18/01/2007 14:28

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......

100PerCentCod · 18/01/2007 14:28

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

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100PerCentCod · 18/01/2007 14:28

meant she aint christian

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MamaG · 18/01/2007 14:28

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

what if they made notes about ME

100PerCentCod · 18/01/2007 14:29

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

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beckybrastraps · 18/01/2007 14:30

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.

100PerCentCod · 18/01/2007 14:31

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

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MamaG · 18/01/2007 14:32

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

roisin · 18/01/2007 17:21

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.

collision · 18/01/2007 17:37

Is she Plymouth Brethren cod?

With long hair and no makeup?

100PerCentCod · 18/01/2007 17:47

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

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saadia · 18/01/2007 17:52

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.

DimpledThighs · 18/01/2007 18:56

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

DimpledThighs · 18/01/2007 18:56

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

DimpledThighs · 18/01/2007 19:00

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

will stop posting now

PeachyClair · 18/01/2007 19:48

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

pointydog · 18/01/2007 20:50

nnnnnggg

closed minds

julienetmum · 18/01/2007 22:22

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.

100PerCentCod · 19/01/2007 10:38

i rememerb the openign sequence of tarka the otter
shudder

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pointydog · 19/01/2007 14:59

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

jura · 19/01/2007 16:32

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