> According to some friends of ours who are homeschooling their three children, a similar phenomenon is happening in the public library, where children's classics like "Ping the Duck" and "Blueberries for Sal" are no longer on the shelves. They've been replaced with books deemed to be more up-to-date and, possibly, more "progressive" as our culture currently defines the term. I don't know whether this is true of many libraries around the country, but our friends have stocked their house full of classics they picked up for cheap at library discard sales.
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> Iss "tempted to append a "Cat in the Hat" movie rant to this thread, but won't" achar

Fortunately, I still see these books around, being used along with the new "classics" in the classroom. My wife teaches Kindergarten and her mom is the director of a pre-school. Their schools realize that a book that endures does so mostly because the stories and values last, even if some of it becomes dated. For children that age, anachronisms don't distract from the overall story and can actually add to the book as a whole.

Fer"Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo"rick