[lbo-talk] bending young saplings to the right

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Mon Jun 6 20:32:55 PDT 2005


jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote:


>>Are there similar books teaching socialism to children? Seems like I saw
>>a childrens book about a blue cows adventures once when I was looking
>>for young childrens books that taught lessons that were the antithesis of
>>the above title. I gave my youngest niece "The Three Little Pigs Buy the
>>White House" but it isn't strictly a childrens book.
>>
As a graduation present (out of first grade) in (socialist) Romania, I got a bag of candy and a copy of a book called "Cippolino."

If I remember right it was the epic adventure of an onion (Cippolino) and his vegetable friends, against the aristo count Mandarin. Cippolino's secret weapon was that he could make people cry. Anyway, it was definitely a kid's "socialist" book. Haven't been able to locate it since then. I still remember it forty years later; so it must have been a pretty decent book.

William Steig writes very lefty-leaning stuff though, as does Dr. Seuss.

"Yertle the Turtle" is a good example.

One could also dig through older Soviet children's to find other examples. Arcadi Gaidar was pretty good as I remember.

Joanna


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