Concerning & Potentially Concerning Content

The story revolves around stuffed animals coming to life and telling “the real story” for fairy tales. Young readers do hear this unfortunate line early to help set this context: “The kids all know not to spoil our secret” i.e., keeping it from the adult, as “that would ruin the magic for everybody. Also, the solution for Goldilocks involves her sneaking into her own home so she doesn’t get in trouble with her parents. There is a stuffed animal that is rude and grumpy during the story telling. One of the first things we hear him saying is, “all I want is for your breath to smell better, but that’s not happening, is it?”. Later he remarks, “Serves her right. If she’s going to act like a snotty little brat, then her hair should be the color of boogers!” There is a bit of “potty humor”. A story transition says, “but” and a character comments, “That’s a big but” and all the kids laugh. We also hear that stinky, who is a skunk, has a “smelly but” and he is said to have a “butt burp” and “tail toots”. A wolf says, “and we sniff our own butts”. A character remarks, “ah, fudgedaboutit”. We also hear a flippant exclamation of “Heavens!”.