Choices

We are our choices.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

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I emailed Kirk the other day and asked him about the following (an image I took from a publisher's web site in the kid's books section). We had this exchange:

Me: If you were shopping and came across the following listing of books, which would you choose for your child?

Kirk: Either Squiffy... because that name is silly... or Gatsby... because that name is silly too.

Which one I would not choose: That Baby Bear one primarily because it explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval and excess creating a portrait of the Roaring 20s that had been described as a cautionary tale regarding The American Dream.

Zak absolutely hates cautionary tales regarding The American Dream!!! That's why we had to quit reading Go to Bed, Little Mouse!