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tptacekonJune 25, 2009

Dude, The Rainbow Fish is just a book about sharing. You know, like stickers and crayons and stuff.

I'm pretty sure we can take any children's book and, with some rhetorical gymnastics, reconstruct Harrison Bergeron from them.

arsonJune 25, 2009

I have a book called "The Rainbow Fish", which I refuse to let my kids read.

I think it has a horrible message, that individuality is bad, and you must give away all that is special about you in order to conform.

I never bothered to look it up till today, and I see that wikipedia has an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Fish about it, with almost exactly the same criticism I made.

Why do adults write such books (including the ones you mentioned) for kids? And why do other adults allow them to become popular (AKA buy them)?

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