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Alternative to woke kids-book ‘propaganda’
A new conservative publishing house wants to get the “wokeness” out of bedtime.
Brave Books, launching this week, aims to offer parents “a conservative alternative to the current cultural activism that our children are being taught in schools, in the entertainment they watch and the books they read.”
CEO Trent Talbot, a Montgomery Texas, opthalmologist and father of two, said he’s trying to counter leftwing “propaganda” in children’s books, adding that “Once my eyes were open I was seeing it everywhere and I couldn’t unsee it.”
As an example, he cited, Ibram X. Kendi’s picture book, “Antiracist Baby,” which urges parents and kids to “make equity a reality.”
Brave Books’ first offering, “Elephants are Not Birds,” is the story of Kevin, an elephant who likes to sing and sings so well he’s convinced by a vulture named Culture that he must actually be a bird. But even when Kevin is given wings and a beak, his attempts to live life as a bird fail.
The book is an unapologetic reCases buke to the growing acceptance of young people’s claims they are transgender, says author Ashley St. Clair.
“You get special attention now in the classroom if you say, ‘Hey my name is not Billy, it’s Amanda,’ ” St. Clair, 22, told The Post. “I am going to have a little boy in November and it’s scary to think he could come home and say, ‘My friends all identify as something else and that’s how I feel’ and have my son crying because he’s not put on hormone-replacement therapy.”
Brave Books, eschewing Amazon, is offering parents a book a month for a $12.99 yearly subscription through its own Web site.
Other planned books include stories addressing Communism and cancel culture.