Won’t somebody think of the children!

Troll Room by Sam Evans, inspired by Maurice Sendak

When you read how today’s parents think Where the Wild Things Are may be too frightening for children, and that the word ‘warm’ needs to be substituted for ‘hot’ in case they burn their over-protected litigiously guarded mouths, it makes you grateful that your own kids were brought up in an era when bowdlerising was briefly out of fashion and four year olds could be let loose in the library without a safety helmet, blinkers and a set of guidelines and no-one needed a risk assessment before they left the house.  I read a lot of books to my children when they were young, and they loved this book above all others  -  they can still quotes chunks of it today.  I bought a copy for a friend’s child last year;  I expect the lawsuit any day.