At this very moment, I have an eight year old daughter up in bed, singing herself bittersweet, tear-filled songs about the Little Prince, which we finished reading tonight.
Good grief, how come nobody warned me that in it, a child commits suicide by snakebite? It seems like that would be something that a body would give a heads up on. Like when I mentioned reading the stupid book in a previous blog post, a "Hey, dumbass hippy- you are aware that the child dies at the end, right?" in the comments section would have been deeply appreciated.
Only the French could come up with a children's book where the main character offs himself in the final pages. Robin Williams got it right.
I give a cigarette to a baby.
(heads up. Robin Williams drops the F-bomb like the French drop atomic bombs.)
Hey, maybe we'll watch "Old Yeller" for family movie night this week.
Ok. I'm going to go sing myself bittersweet songs about the Little Prince. He was a cutie. Right up until he let a deadly snake fatally bite him on the ankle. Just to be clear to any other parents out there who are reading this book to their kids and, like me, forgot that the French are all more than slightly insane.
I've worn that hat before and felt really awful about it as well. Oh, well, makes the kids realize how good they have it!
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1. I forget the gist of the book; I read it in French freshman year of college which was 40 years ago...
ReplyDelete2. I thought you had read it before...
3.I am sure you handled it appropriately with the kids...
I never read more than the rose under a bell segment of the story. I always thought the Prince was kind of creepy, to be honest, and wanted to be the fox.
ReplyDeleteI started reading that to the kids, only because you were. (We all know how smart Cari is.) I made no sence to me. Was the little kid real or imaginary?? I returned it to the library about 1/3 of the way thru. Now im gald i didnt finish it.
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