When Monkey was 4, I read him The 3 Little Pigs with a few edits. When the wolf went to the straw house, the book may have said that the wolf ate the pig, but the words read to Monkey were, "And the pig ran to his brother's house." The same thing happened at the house of sticks. At the end of the story, when the wolf goes down the chimney in the brick house, and falls into a pot of boiling water, Monkey heard that, "the wolf didn't get any apples." For a four-year-old, this meant no nightmares. ... Well now, Monkey is 8 -- time for the truth. I gave him the book and he read it for himself. He was so amused by the lines where I had crossed out the nasty stuff and had pencilled in the "softer" version. He has promised no nightmares.
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