Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I began reading these books with my daughter because the storylines sounded like a fun twist on the classic fairy tales. The first book was fantastic. We were excited to begin reading the second. We became engrossed in the characters and wanted to know what would happen next. We have continued to read all six books to find what happened to the characters, but I began to see the typical liberal ideas being pushed into these children's books. By the final book, the author had included gay and lesbian characters, along with questionable language. I realize that the author himself identifies with this group, but not all families do. I wish that children's authors would keep their personal gender, political, and any other ideology out of children's books. Childhood is short enough and children should be spared this type of rhetoric for as long as possible. We should give them a chance to form some of their own opinions on life before we start trying to push our agendas on them. By the end, I was highly disappointed in the series. What could have been a set of books that I would have gladly bought for all of my nieces and friends' children, I will now throw away.