Children's Books That Didn't Make It

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If Rumpelstiltskin could make it as a classic, maybe there is hope for some of these. It seems to me to be about some of the worst of modern life. I am reminded of that ghastly story this time each year as the time to send my year old dog away to service dog school approaches. I guess as time for my friends' dog to go away came in 1999, I wrote up this:

What is Bill Clinton's favorite children's story? Which one did his mother
get sick of reading again and again? George Washington and the Cherry tree?
That isn't even funny. The Pied Piper? Skinflint villagers suffer when they
fail to carry out their side of a bargain. Also don't get mad; get even. No.
Stone soup? I am disturbed at the trickery at first, but it is about
sharing. No. The little red hen that plants the wheat and feeds her chicks
bread? That is about earning you and your children's keep and enjoying the
fruits of your labor. No. The Beauty and the Beast? He learns to control
himself as true love blossoms. Also not judging by appearances. No. King
Midas? He shows remorse and renounces greed, and his daughter is restored to
him. No. All of these stories have good, positive messages.
His mother must have skipped them.

Rumpelstiltskin? Aha! It begins with the miller's false bragging which
brings his daughter to the attention of a greedy tyrant. She is forced to
marry him, but is still left needing to live up to her father's impossible
lies. She is temporary saved by making a very harsh bargain. Her first born
for spinning straw into gold. In the end, she manages to weasel out of the
deal. Her rescuer goes away empty handed. This must be the story that
little Billy loved.

I remembered Rumpelstiltskin and what a crummy story it is again as the time
came for our friend to take her puppy, Princess, to school. She is
a year old now and it is time for her dog guide training. Giving them up is
always hard. I am disappointed how little we were able to have Prince and
Princess together. Susan,
who suggested we should have Prince to go with Princess, never got to see them
together. Perhaps second to "How can you give it up? is "What happens if you
don't?" My answer to the second is "It doesn't make any difference, I said I
would, and I will." But then I will never be president. Maybe I should find
a copy of Rumpelstiltskin and read it before I condemn it so harshly. As I
remember it is about lying, greed, cheating, and scheming. It is OK to cheat
ugly little men and other inferiors. Those aren't the values I taught my
children.

Clinton is gone, and if nobody that voted to acquit him for lying under oath was currently running for president, I wouldn't have dug this up. What somebody has done in their current term is more important to my vote than what they did 30 years ago, or even misdeeds of others in their party.
 
1) You're Different -- And That's Bad
2) The Boy Who Died from Eating All His Vegetables
3) Robert: Dad's New Wife
4) Fun Four-Letter Words to Know and Share
5) The Kids' Guide to Hitchhiking
6) Kathy Was So Bad That her Mom Stopped Loving Her
7) Curious George and the High-Voltage Fence
8) All Cats Go to ****
9) The Little Sissy That Snitched
10) Why Can't Mr. Fork and Mrs. Electrical Outlet be Friends?
11) That's It, I'm Putting You Up for Adoption.
12) Grandpa Gets a Casket
13) 101 Things You Can Do at the Bottom of the Pool
14) The Magic World Inside the Abandoned Refrigerator
15) Controlling the Playground: Respect Through Fear
16) The Pop-Up Book of Human Anatomy
17) Strangers Have the Best Candy
18) Whining, Kicking and Crying to Get Your Way
19) You Were an Accident
20) Things Rich Kids Have, But You Never Will
21) Daddy Drinks Because You Cry
22) Your Nightmares Are Real
23) Where Would You Like to be Buried?
24) You've Got Hepatitis B, Charlie Brown
25) Valuable Protein and Other Nutritional Benefits of Things from Your Nose
 
Sorry about that, but I really liked my little story about Billy's favorite story. Besides, there were political overtones to some of the first post.
 
Ok,

Please explain the content in the first post that was political? I have read it several times and fail to see it.

The rumplestilskin story was funny.

Dan
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