A message to parents and students: Never, ever, ever read a
book, watch a movie, or see or hear a play or story or poem
performed without answering these questions:(Don’t read a book
to your child or let anyone read a book to you without doing
this, either.) Do “wise” and “good” people in the story believe
that spirits inside everything can guide people? Do they follow
a religion that is supposed to be older than Christianity or the
Bible and therefore “better”? Do they live “close to the earth”
in simple lives without technology and don’t believe in any kind
of killing, even for food or to punish great evil? Do they
believe that tribal people and animals are smarter and nobler
than civilized people? Does the work say to “listen to your
heart” or “trust your feelings” because that’s how you’ll know
what the right thing to do is? Does it emphasize separating
children from adults and forcing them to trust themselves to
make extremely important decisions? (An exception to this is if
a child is separated from par