Gunning for Your Children: When Picture Book Classics Pack Heat

 

This is my son:

He’s an appealing little squirt, and three years of age. That means that he has a particular adoration of construction equipment, sticks, hoses, and general mayhem. This, we anticipated. Encouraged even. But like a lot of parents out there I was not entirely ready for his #1 enthusiasm of all time. Better than bulldozers and excavators. More enticing than the longest hose.

My son is a gun nut.

You have a stick? It’s a gun. You have an oddly shaped piece of uncooked spaghe...