To this end, the books include educational interactive activities at the end, such as parents asking their kids to stand on the Raft of Shame for a “funny reason” - such as “having stinky feet” - and making them stay on until they make a compelling enough argument to be let off, in the service of teaching “how to ask for forgiveness and how to understand others’ intentions.”Īs a culture reporter, I found this sort of heavy-handed moralizing pretty objectively hilarious as a parent, it admittedly did concern me.

“I thought there was a need for books that could help parents teach the values they hold dear,” he told the New York Post. The books take place on various outposts of “Freedom Island,” with the publisher including an interactive fold-out map with each copy so young readers can become more immersed in the world.īrave Books founder Trent Talbot is open about the fact that the company is intended to serve as a corrective to the liberal propaganda regularly being spoon-fed to unsuspecting American children. Clair and The Island of Free Ice Cream, a fable penned by far-right activist Jack Posobiec intended to teach children of the dangers of socialism. Crenshaw’s book, Fame, Blame, and the Raft of Shame, is part of a larger series produced by Brave Books, a conservative children’s-book imprint that claims to proffer “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.” Other entries include Elephants Are Not Birds, a transphobic screed authored by an aspiring Tomi Lahren type named Ashley St.

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