In a controversial article in Smithsonian magazine in 2010, Abigail Green proposes that many popular children's books are 'rife with malice and mayhem'.[1] She cites Good Night Moon, Margaret Wise Brown's classic bedtime story, and Robert McCloskey's Blueberries for Sal as examples and points out only a negligent mother would let her child eat unwashed berries on a hillside populated by bears by herself. When turning her attention to another classic book, Eric Carle's Very Hungry Caterpillar, Green notes a cute bug 'binges on junk food and starves himself to turn into a beautiful butterfly'. Reflect and answer the following questions relative to this topic: What books or movies frightened you as a child? Describe your feelings and whether there were long-lasting effects from the experience. If you were a single parent or a stepparent with a preschooler, what messages (or inferences) in books would you find particularly objectionable or welcome