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I wanted to see if anyone had any suggestions for child and young adult literature to counter the all pervasive leftist brainwashing.
Anything written more than 50 years ago was probably written with the ethos of an underlying meritocracy unless the author was specifically attempting counter cultural subversion.
I heard the author promoting this book series www.tuttletwins.com a good while back and was very surprised at the extremely high quality of them.
Then went on to the Little House Laura Ingalls books (the TV show is completely different but very wholesome by todays standards)
Tried a few others that werent as popular with the young target audience. Swallows and Amazons series and Margaret Haddix Among the Hidden series but she ate up Anne of Green Gables which started to drag for me after the first few books.
Read the ubiquitous Hunger Games and Harry Potter together and had fun poking ideological and moral holes in them from what weâd learned from some of the better books weâd read before. Doesnât seem to take much exposure to coherent narratives for the younger generation to be able to identify propaganda when they see it.
I second the Tolkien/ Lewis recommendations. A lot of the series I would have enjoyed (SFI-fi/fantasy or others) I now see modern âprogrammingâ in now.
Yeah even the mid 2000s film versions of the Narnia books were pretty true to the books and Liam Neeson wasnât pretending not to be Jesus.
The themes are fairly evident in CS Lewisâ works. I enjoyed Tolkien books and films but Iâm not sure the Christian/anarchist themes are as accessible to the younger reader or come across clearly in the films.
Richard Adams book Watership Down has some strong anti authoritarian themes but i havenât seen the animated version yet to know how well they come across in that.
