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Subject: Re: To Moderator: Censoring Ping the Duck? Author: Taylor [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 09:05:57 09/20/24 Fri In reply to: Alfred22 's message, "Re: To Moderator: Censoring Ping the Duck?" on 08:13:11 09/20/24 Fri Perhaps that complexity is what makes it real children's literature. It remains one of the top one hundred children literature books by national librarians, even though it deals with spanking, which is almost universally condemned by progressives, which that group tends to be. It was one of my favorites in our home children's library, and continues to be popular with kids today. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> Subject: Re: To Moderator: Censoring Ping the Duck? Author: Alfred22 to Taylor [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 12:46:56 09/20/24 Fri Good suggestion about how its popularity might derive from it being a bit more complicated than a simple Duckling Ping disobeys, is almost eaten for dinner, is spanked, and lives happily ever after. Some of the complexities are: 1. Every night someone gets the long switch on their tale feathers. 2. Ping is genuinely afraid of the switch and decides to avoid it. Most kids, even non-spanked kids, know what switches feel like from bushwhacking or other walking in the woods or from direct applications. They sting like the Dickens and leave red stripes where they land. 3. Adults plan to eat Ping but Ping is rescued/released by a child on board the Chinese Junk (= a kind of ship) 4. Magically Ping's parents' ship appears just in the nick of time for Ping to rejoin. 5. Ping only gets one switch spank for being late AGAIN. No spanks for swimming away and almost being eaten. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]