It is now illegal to sell children’s books published before 1985, unless you pay to have each one tested for lead and phthalates.
Yes, this is CPSIA, again.
Our government at work for the people.
I just came back from my local thrift store with tears in my eyes! I watched as boxes and boxes of children’s books were thrown into the garbage! Today was the deadline and I just can’t believe it! Every book they had on the shelves prior to 1985 was destroyed! I managed to grab a 1967 edition of “The Outsiders” from the top of the box, but so many!
I am a lover of words, a lover of communication. (Just ask my husband.) There is nothing more delightful than reading a well-written book from long ago. This is a tragedy. A tear welled up in my eye as I read that. Can you imagine watching all of those precious books being thrown away?
Ask me again why I don’t like government regulations. Go on. Ask me.
Even if they come to their senses, the damage had been done.
February 11th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Let Them Read Stalin
books,
those evil things
that poison us all,
fill our children’s
minds with questions
we can’t answer,
clutter the world
everywhere like cats,
and now we know why
the kiddies go wacko
from what’s in those books,
this is worse than
fluoridation, than war,
than anything on TV,
yes, destroy them,
save us from conspiracies,
put it all on google,
what?
oh, there’s a pill?
BookSafe? take one
every four books?
are there side effects?
oh, never mind,
nothing could be worse
than the politically incorrect
unregulated and unrestricted
use of a dangerous substance,
hanh?
the pill makes you want
to write books?
safe books
to replace the bad ones?
ok, we can do that,
thank God for modern medicine
and consumer protection,
but one question–do the books
we write have to have a point?
no? that’s good,
that makes sense,
we can write four books
every hour
until they come up
with a pill that will
make us stop,
now, how do I get the lid
off this &(#/@*! bottle?!
(there you go, just for starters…and Hitler’s bunch had to do it the old fashioned way)