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Thursday, December 22, 2016

Thus, American Literature is Ruined for Yet Another Generation

You may have grown up reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Magic Key, but today’s young parents are raising their children on literary classics.

Yes, hipsters have reached the children’s storybook market, reading their kids Hemingway, Kerouac and Capote before bedtime. 

These versions of the classics, however, have been made child-friendly - after all, tales of domestic violence and murder are enough to give adults nightmares, let alone five-year-olds.
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