I got a big stack of books at the library to read to the kids. Tonight, I took the top one off the stack - That Summer by Tony Johnston, which looked inocuous enough, but I realized on page 3, it's about the summer his brother died. That's not quite what I had in mind.
So I grab the next book in the stack - The Birdman by Veronika Charles, based on a true story about a man who rescues sickly birds in the market, nurses them to health, and releases them. It seemed uplifting. I start to read and on the page 2 it says that the man's entire family, including his 3 beloved children, died in a horrible accident. So I put that one aside.
I take the third book in the stack - "Let's Get a Pup!" Said Kate by Bob Graham. How bad can this be??? The very first line: "Tiger died last summer." Holy crap!
I usually just pick books that have nice illustrations, but I'm going to have to start checking the content more carefully!!
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