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REPRINT ‘Scholastic Seduction: the Spirit Animals Series’ (Chalcedon Magazine, 2015)

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From April 27, 2018

You can always trust Scholastic Books to tempt young readers away from God. Just show a lot of kids in a fantasy world who have super-powers and fantastic martial arts skills, and are at the same time really “spiritual,” and you’re good to go.

I reviewed a couple of these “Spirit Animals” books in 2015. It would be a very good idea to find something else for your children and grandchildren to read.

https://chalcedon.edu/magazine/scholastic-seduction-the-spirit-animals-series

This is culture rot, perpetrated by the publishers of Scholastic Books. And it’s not nice.

‘The Abuse of Fantasy’ (2015)

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Here’s another of those books that I read so that you don’t have to. Not that you’d want to; but you could get suckered in. The marketing can be tricky.

The Abuse of Fantasy

Scholastic spent rafts of money on this New Age, neo-pagan, condescending, two-faced twaddle, appealing to all that is worst in young readers’ psyches. Like, what could be more seductive than the idea that you have super-powers that enable you, 11 years old and weighing only 70 pounds, to wale the tar out of a full-grown man because he wouldn’t give you what you want?

Are they trying to groom kids to be psychopaths?

Scholastic Press–avoid it.

‘The Abuse of Fantasy’ (2015)

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Remember those “Spirit Animals” fantasies, from Scholastic Books? If you don’t, I do. I had to review them. Reading them was like a root canal gone wrong.

https://leeduigon.com/2015/01/30/the-abuse-of-fantasy/

Fantasy is a powerful tool for communicating the intangible, especially to children. As a fantasy writer myself, using fantasy to serve an evil purpose is something that makes me quite truly angry. But it should always make you mad to see something good twisted into bad.

We see a lot of that, these days.