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VisitMOZY.Y.com. You're listening to Away with Words. I'm Martha Barnett.

And I'm Grand Parrot. There was an article on the New York Times website that caught my attention.

It asked the question, Our Fairy Tales Too Scary for Children. Do you remember that, Martha?

I sure do, and I agree. We posted it to the website and our

listeners have been talking about it. It turns out that for a lot of people the

answer is yes fairy tales are too scary to read to children.

More than half of British parents surveyed by a website said they wouldn't read the stories until

their children were at least five years old.

One in five parents said the oldies were too politically incorrect and that they wouldn't

read them at all.

Now my perspective, Martha, you know I've got a two year old son, is that he's too young for that. But on the other hand I know that would we read

the curious George books for example if something bad happens to George my son is very

concerned. The emotions of a child are very raw, aren't they very powerful?

And so I do wonder if some danger, there's some danger about reading the version of

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