When Moms Shop at Closeout Stores

They find remaindered books with mixed-messages for children.

The titles are weirdly wonderful. The content is completely confounding.




Here's what we learned from this story: when everybody is mean to you because you are a homely fish, and you are just about to give up and hate yourself too, you might become a pretty fish and get to swim with all the other pretty, mean fish.




And from this messed-up morality tale: If you try to get your supersized nut to the top of the tree and can't do it, just give up and get someone to do half the work. Changing the title to "When Squirrels Cooperate" would still be ludicrous, but would at least begin to make the moral fit the story.




Sigh.