Today, a woman came into the children's library, returned a book , and proceeded to complain about it. It was a book of fairy tales and nursery rhymes and she wanted to let us know that she would not have checked it out if she had known that the stories were so violent. She specifically cited Red Riding Hood which, in that book, is the Red-and-granny-eaten-whole, woodsman-kills-wolf, Red-and-granny-emerge-unscathed variety*. She was all, "This is terribly violent!", as though she'd never heard the... read more
