I wish they’d stuck to their classics! Like this one.
I grew up on Little Golden Books. The Saggy, Baggy Elephant. The Topsy-Turvy Circus. Oh, so many! They helped me learn to read–when assorted grandparents, aunts, and uncles weren’t reading them to me. What a treat that was!
Now… Oh, the horror, the horror…
Little Golden Books now has a whole line of books about pop culture celebrities, the likes of Taylor Swift, Willie Nelson, Beyonce, Oprah, etc., etc. No, I can’t bring myself to illustrate them here. For the life of me, I can’t see what good it does to steep small children in today’s celebrities. Don’t we get more than enough of that, every single day?
Sheesh. Even Little Golden Books. All those revolting celebrities. Talk about not dancing with who brung you…
Makes me glad my grandchildren all grew up before this happened.
Oh, what a deplorable development this is.
When my daughter was 3 years old I purchased a set of the Little Golden Books that came with a vinyl record to go with each story. She taught herself to read using those books/recordings. How I wish I still owned them today. She donated them to a Church group yard sale when she was a teenager. She wishes she had kept them, too. She’s 50 now
So saddened to hear this – loved the Little Golden Books. Hang onto the early ones, they are golden.
So sad! My children grew up with the Little Golden Books. I still have some of them that I read to my grandchildren.
We didn’t know we’d someday have to save them.
It’s as if all that was good and wholesome has been replaced by the shallow sensibilities of Pop culture. I, for one, do not care about celebrities, in the slightest, and I sure wouldn’t spend good money to promote celebrity worship to a child.
I just about fell out of my chair when I saw it. I mean, they’re not even wholesome celebrities…