Primary children being given this book?

[MyMajesty]

I'm a gran to an older child so I don't know if this is actually happening.

Are primary children in Scottish schools really being given the book Brenda Is A Sheep?

Generally they do read the books in school before they come home, and they vote on their favourite. There was a lovely book about common garden birds dd voted for (she got this book bag).

We've had several bags of books across 2 dc and different stages and the storybooks chosen are often not that great we've found. We got a nice book with baby owls in the nursery one, and 'the disgusting sandwich' which was our favourite for ages.

It would be more worrying if it was aimed at older kids who had a better grasp of potential subtexts, as it is, it's just a bit of a meh as a story.

I don't get the tiny magnets in the bag, that's the second set we've got and they're too small, fiddly, easy to lose and poor quality to do much with.

Thanks anon444877 .

I can't imagine what the author was hoping to do with this story, or why anyone would think it's a good story.

@MyMajesty, i fail to see you the point of the story altogether too.
I suspect (some) people stopped at page 1 and voted it.

I asked my dd about it this morning, and we agreed it wasn't very likely that an animal could change its instinct, like our pet cat can't stop thinking mice are good to hunt, and talked about the fact that humans are predators too. They're doing predators and prey at school so purely as a food chain example it wasn't a complete waste of time.

I do wonder about the for everyone nature of it though - my dd has a crazy number of books as she's got two book obsessed parents. I don't mind receiving more books (who does?) but like baby boxes I wonder why there isn't more parental choice (a book token for example), or a selection of titles to choose from and make it something you can choose to pass up to mean that other kids get more.

I'm a P1 teacher and we did this book the other week. Trust me, we talked about it in class. The kids loved it but my lot at least came to the conclusion that while clearly very kind, the sheep were foolish to trust Brenda ! Many of my kids also advocated biting Brenda and/or eating her for dinner so I'm not sure we're your best moral compass however...