Do parents of today let their kids read "Curious George"?

[jmowreader]

Today my wife went to a craft store. I went with her.

Because I was bored, I was flipping through the copy of "Curious George" they had on display. (Hopefully this book is a metaphor for the Bush administration, because after they caught George they put him in jail, then in a zoo.)

In this book is one page about George in the Man In The Yellow Hat's home: "after a good meal and a good pipe, George was very sleepy."

And there was a picture of George smoking a pipe!

Now understand, in the era when the book was written it was perfectly normal to smoke a pipe after dinner, and I doubt any children were led to smoking by reading this book...but today's era isn't that era.