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Here's the hard truth about this life. Good doesn't always triumph. Justice isn't always served. People don't always change for the better. Life isn't clean, and we can't make it clean by blotting out all the sex, language, and violence that might come before our eyes. Likewise, we can't make things better by numbing ourselves to evil. 

It's a delicate balance, and one that requires discernment (a favorite word of Christian critics, I know, but a good concept.) There are plenty of people who use "clean" movies and books to absolve themselves of the very real evil in their own hearts. And it's to this kind of tendency we want to speak.

If we surround ourselves with an artificial "clean Christian" world, one where there are only happy endings, only inspiring acts of courage, only proper and elegant words, we're not only denying the truth about the world, but inventing our own. And it's one which doesn't show us how badly we need a Savior, or how much He really loves us.

So don't be the kid who covers his eyes during a game of hide-and-seek. The fact that you don't see evil doesn't mean it stops existing. Evil must be faced head on. Sometimes that means reading a book that's messy.

There's nothing wrong with having a tolerance level, nothing wrong with knowing your limit or having a standard. Tragedy happens naturally to children all the time, but that's no reason to force them into reading something inappropriate. People grow at different rates, and common sense should be exercised. Discernment, we recommend. Hiding, sheltering, cowering, and ignoring we do not.

This will look different for every person. We've given you some tools to help you navigate literature, and it's our hope you will do so in a spirit of honesty and love, not censorship and fear. 

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Our five content concern categories, otherwise known as FLAWS

F = Fighting/Violence
L = Language
A = Attitude
W = Worldview
S = Sex

Review by Lauren Shearer
Lauren Shearer writes words for fun and profit. She also makes films, but everyone knows you can't make a profit doing that. Her other hobby is consistently volunteering way too much of her time. You can read more of her reviews here.
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by Doris Burn
from Philomel Books
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
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from HarperCollins
for Preschool-3rd grade
1938 Caldecott Medal winner
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$17.99
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by Chris Raschka
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for Preschool-2nd grade
2012 Caldecott Medal winner
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$17.99
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by Berta & Elmer Hader
Reprint from Macmillan
for Preschool-2nd grade
1949 Caldecott Medal winner
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
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by David Macaulay
from Houghton Mifflin
for Preschool-3rd grade
1991 Caldecott Medal winner
in Oversized Picture Books (Location: PIC-OVER)
$6.00 (2 in stock)
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2001 Caldecott Honor Book
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by R.C. Sproul
from Reformation Trust Publishing
for 1st-4th grade
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by Will and Nicholas
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for Kindergarten-4th grade
1952 Caldecott Medal winner
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$7.00
Flotsam
by David Wiesner
from Clarion Books
for Preschool- 3rd Grade
2007 Caldecott Medal winner
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$17.99
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by Arnold Lobel
from HarperCollins
Animal Fantasy for 1st-3rd grade
1971 Caldecott Honor Book
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$11.89 (1 in stock)
Frog Went A-Courtin'
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from Harcourt, Brace & World
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for Nursery-2nd grade
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1st edition from Hyperion/Madison Press
for Preschool- 2nd Grade
2006 Caldecott Medal winner
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$18.99
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by A. A. Milne
from Dutton Children's Books
Animal Fantasy for Kindergarten-4th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$19.99
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by Laura Numeroff
from HarperCollins
Animal Fantasy for Preschool-2nd grade
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$17.99
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by Simms Taback
from Viking Press
for Preschool-2nd grade
2000 Caldecott Medal winner
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$17.99
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from Sun Dial Press
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
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from Barefoot Books
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for Preschool-5th
2014 Caldecott Medal winner, 2014 Robert F. Sibert Honor Book
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by Thomas Handforth
Reissue from Doubleday & Company
1939 Caldecott Medal winner
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from Doubleday & Company
1939 Caldecott Medal winner
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$15.00 (1 in stock)
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from Harcourt, Brace & World
Realistic Fiction for 2nd-5th grade
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by Jane Yolen
from Philomel Books
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$17.99
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by Marcia Brown
from Atheneum
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1962 Caldecott Medal Winner
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from Philomel Books
for Preschool-3rd grade
1988 Caldecott Medal winner
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$17.99
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by Astrid Lindgren
from Viking Press
Humor for 2nd-6th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
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by Chris Van Allsburg
02nd edition from Houghton Mifflin
for Preschool-2nd grade
1986 Caldecott Medal winner
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$16.00
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by Chris Van Allsburg
from Houghton Mifflin
for Preschool-2nd grade
1986 Caldecott Medal winner
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$16.00
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by Marsha Diane Arnold & Brad Sneed
1st edition from Dial Press
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$17.99
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from Candlewick Press
for PRes
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$17.99
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from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Allegorical and Moral Stories for Kindergarten-3rd grade
1967 Caldecott Medal winner
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
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by Philip C. Stead
First Edition from Roaring Brook Press
for Preschool-2nd grade
2011 Caldecott Medal winner
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$17.99
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by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
from Houghton Mifflin
Biographies of Scientists and Inventors for 1st-3rd grade
1999 Caldecott Medal winner
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$17.99
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by Judith St. George
from Philomel Books
for 2nd-5th grade
2001 Caldecott Medal winner
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$4.00 (3 in stock)
So You Want To Be President?
by Judith St. George
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for 2nd-5th grade
2001 Caldecott Medal winner
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Song of the Swallows
by Leo Politi
1st edition from J. Paul Getty Museum
for 2nd-3rd grade
1950 Caldecott Medal winner
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$16.95
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for Kindergarten-3rd grade
2003 Caldecott Honor Book
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$18.99
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1970 Caldecott Medal winner
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by Robert Lawson
from Viking Press
for 1st-3rd grade
1941 Caldecott Medal winner
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$18.99
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by Jon Klassen
First Edition from Candlewick Press
for Preschool- 3rd Grade
2013 Caldecott Medal winner, 2014 Kate Greenaway Medal
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
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by Peter Sis
1 Reissue from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
for Preschool-2nd grade
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$24.99
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by David Wiesner
1st edition from Clarion Books
for Preschool-2nd grade
2002 Caldecott Medal winner
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$18.99
Tuesday
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from Clarion Books
for Preschool-2nd grade
1992 Caldecott Medal winner
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$17.99
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