[freepatriot32]

One Minute You See It, the Next You Don't: Airbrushing has removed the cigarette from the hand of illustrator Clement Hurd on an upcoming edition of 'Goodnight Moon.'

there is a online petition you can sign here http://www.goodnightreality.com/ to try to get the publishers to stop the stalinism from the website. When you place your vote, you will have the additional option of sending an email to Harper Collins.

"In a single stroke, Harper Collins has changed our collective history, and created an alternate reality in which Clement Hurd does not smoke. It calls to mind a censorship tactic most famously associated with Joseph Stalin, who falsified the archival record of the Soviet Union by literally removing images of his political enemies from photographs in an effort to recreate history in his own image."

Reject the selective histories of corporate Stalinists! YEZHOV

NO YEZHOV

[freepatriot32]

ping

[js1138]

I've done that with a couple of family photos.

[justche]

So not to be obtuse - but how does this affect the book itself?

[Drawsing]

Ahh...the sour smell of history revisionists in the morning.

Quick someone needs to remove all of Churchill's cigars and put big lollipops in their place.

[brownsfan]

The anti-smoking nazis are out of control. Disclaimer: I smoke cigars, roughly 4 a week, always outdoors while walking the dog. So, I am almost unaffected by this crap.
Where I live, the county wants to ban smoking in all public places. The government doesn't need more rules. If people don't like second hand smoke, they won't go to those places. If they don't go, the business will change it's own rules.
But the nazis, (socialists), know what's good for us. They are smarter than us. So, they can't wait to make rules for the stupid people. Grrrrr.
Right now, it's smokers. Mark my words, tomorrow it will be overweight people. And then the debate over how much overweight is acceptable.
Our freedom is going away, and we are rolling over.

[polymuser]

But, if he was gay, I bet they'd scramble to show a 'partner' with him. Maybe put a rainbow pin on him. What's the dif?

[HamiltonJay]

Frankly, my son's copy of the book didn't have a photo of this guy at all, thank goodness. with or without cigarette, he'd probably give kids of the age that books written for nightmares.

Revisionism history? I suppose if they had cropped it to just show his face that would be revisionism too?

[marsh_of_mists]

Man, I used to love that book. I'd see no problem with replacing the illustrator's photo with another one of him, if they could find one, but digitally altering it like that skirts into Memory Hole territory.

[stevio]

Ahhh. "Goontga goo" as called by my then 1 1/2yr old. One of my favorites.

[sandbar]

Who is that they removed?

[TXBubba]

Gee, now the guy looks like he is just in a stupid pose. Who stands around with their hand up like that? This is so stupid. The man smoked, deal with it. Does this mean my copy of the book is worth more now?

[nickcarraway]

Isn't there another picture of the author they can use besides this one?

Instead of smoking, maybe they will teach the kids to have strange tics with their hands.

[Lee'sGhost]

Thing that seems so stupid to me is the fact that all they had to do was crop the picture to eliminate the cigarette.

[Physicist]

Bibliopath ping.

Margaret Wise Brown's books are a genuine pleasure to read to children.

"...But the cabbage didn't answer. It just sat there in its great, green silence..."

"...Goodnight nobody. Goodnight mush."

"...Is it a walrus's house? Or a hat's house?"

[Egon]

Ping.

[anonsquared]

This could be a good thing if they used it to erase the Clintons from our collective memories.

As my young teen laments, "Why couldn't I have been born to grow up during the Reagan years?"

[elfman2]

I didn't know that book was a classic.

I've been reading it to my 3 yo for a couple of years. I thought it was lame, but he seems to like it.

[Publius6961]

If the liberal icon, FDR, was not safe from the ministration of the controlling revisionist twits, what chance does a children's book have?

Ever visited the FDR monument in DC?

[BenLurkin]

bump

[razorback-bert]

If it would only work with the Clintons.