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[–]supersmokio6420 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The author has to be trolling. The wolf's explicitly shown to be just pretending to be nice the entire time they're supposedly making friends, and then goes to sleep thinking about how tasty sheep are.

Why include all that if you're really trying to promote the apparent message of acceptance? Surely if that was the intent you'd show the wolf genuinely trying to fit in with the sheep, not keep hinting that it still really does want to eat them.

The only way it makes sense is if its been created specifically to start a conversation about the kind of thing that can sneak through in these books. Past efforts to call out questionable messaging in childrens books get the complainer written off as right-wing bigots before the book even gets examined, so maybe its just about getting a really blatant example out there?

[–]MezozoicGay 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Why include all that if you're really trying to promote the apparent message of acceptance?

To lower safe guarding in kids, so kids would be more easily persuaded and abused by people who are promoting such book.