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The Bone Keeper

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Haunting. Perfect. Not for most western children (well, my three year old son LOVES it-- but he has been raised with the concepts of nature, death, rebirth and ancient story telling since infancy). Intense and beautiful illustrations. This is a poetic version of the ancient story of La Loba (Wold Woman). SO happy with my purchase!

Not all animation is for kids and neither are all picture-format books. This book is not just 'bent' or 'broken' as the great defining words of Thomas Jefferson would have put it, but it is also truly twisted. Plain and simply not for kids under 13 - at the least
Both text and illustration form a nightmare on every page. For example: an illustration of a zombie wolf with glowing eyes is described as jolting as it's flesh and sinew re-wrap around its bones.
Even from a young-adult or scholarly perspective, the suitability as a cultural reference is questionable. Predictably, subjects of death and decay are prevalent throughout the book. However, they are portrayed not in a positive or natural light but as horrific dark thaumaturgical processes. Such legends were traditionally intended as hospice tools for the oldest and therefore wisest members of a tribe. In some tribes exposing children to such stories carried severe sanctions and even physical punishment. Exposing children to these stories was seen as the crime of stealing innocence. Even if taken in a shamanistic context the combined effect of the text and illustrations gives as much credit to a cultural tradition as the Blair Witch Project did to witchcraft - also not a children's film.
These pages are saturated with dementia, fear, insanity, darkness, horrors, isolation, and death without even a cultural excuse. Seeing it marketed as a children's book is an offense. The final product is of no credit to society and culture, only a deficit.