I substituted "hurt" and moved on, thinking that once the fox who wanted to kill the little cow was out of the way, I'd be in the clear. Kill?! I mean, I know it's part of life, and poor Lorelei and Ben have been introduced to animal death a few times because our crazy weimaraners have killed a cute baby raccoon (poor guy) and chipmunk (we'll miss him) in the past year, but. The pig runs from cow, and the cow and her calf run because "someone bad has made us run! / He wants to kill my Little One!" Oh. The dog runs by because he is being chased by a pig, which wants to bite him. The frog hops by because he is chased by the dog, which wants to grab him. A boy sits watching the sky, then a fly zooms by because he is chased by a frog, which wants to eat him. We checked out this book, one of the I Can Read It Myself Beginner Books, in a fit of nostalgic hysteria-don't you remember this book?! I think it was a good one.right? Lorelei and I started reading it, and it starts off innocently enough. You'd think I learned my lesson! Of course not. That was a library book I hid after a single reading.
I see a picture of the turtle floating, belly up, in the water! How to explain this one?! Um, the turtle floats on his back, looking up at the sky, and the boy goes in to the water to get the turtle, and then (oh, I see-the turtle was just playing dead) the turtle jumps up and they all become friends. A little boy and his dog went fishing, they saw a turtle, the dog went into the water to chase the turtle, they wrestled in the water, my. Once, I was "reading" a wordless picture book to Lorelei and was, obviously, describing the images on the pages in a story-like way.
I need to learn to preview books before reading them to my kids! I have learned this the hard way several times.
A Fly Went By by Mike McClintock, illustrated by Fritz Siebel
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