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Title: A horrible lesson for children
Review: My 5-year-old brought this book home from kindergarten yesterday, and I read it to her never dreaming how it would end.The book begins by describing a lazy mouse who sits and does nothing while the rest of his family gather food and supplies for the long winter. On each page, the hard-working mice ask Frederick what he's doing, and he replies with all sorts of lame excuses that amount to one thing: he's doing nothing.In the end, the mice run out of food before the winter ends, but instead of starving, they all are "warmed" by Fredericks words. As anyone who has ever been hungry can tell you, words make a poor meal.I was stunned by the way the author turned a classic morality tale on its head in order to glorify laziness. I spent the next several minutes explaining to my daughter that this book was a classic example of BAD behavior, and she should never be lazy like Frederick. Please don't subject your children to this anti-morality tale.
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