Review: A Lesson to Teach Kids it's Ok to Trick the Mentally Disabled, Especially if They're Likely to Get Hurt, if You Want Their Stuff
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 30, 2013
This is a weird sort of book if it's supposed to be aimed at kids.  Not sure if it is a parody of the junior fiction genre or just missed the mark by a long way.  Basically a dim-witted coyote finds some meat but gets distracted by some chickens on the way home.  A fox decides to encourage the obviously mentally challenged coyote to do something that will likely end in its death, or at least where it will get severely injured, for not only its own sick entertainment, but so it can steal the meat while this happens.  I don't really know what the point of this story is, if kids come across a mentally disabled child at their school who joins their class or something then it's okay to trick him/her into doing something that might get them hurt so you can steal their possessions while their fighting for their life if you want them.  That's pretty much the message here, the fox doesn't get his comeuppance at all which is where the story should have gone.If this is supposed to be a parody it fails in getting that message across to the reader.  The way it is, it just seems wrong.