As I suspected, the illustrations Sullivan links to are fakes. But the book is real.

As for liberal readers who demand examples from me of the left doing this sort of thing, I must say every email I’ve received has been in bad faith to one extent or another. I simply don’t believe these readers think the left is innocent of this sort of thing. And I didn’t provide examples originally because I think what I wrote is so self-evidently true.

But since you insist, let me say: Go to a kid’s bookstore sometime. Just look at this list of books which came up when I searched Amazon for “Heather has two Mommies.” I’m not denouncing all of these books. It seems to me that if you’re in a same-sex relationship you might want a way to explain what’s going on to your kids. But spare the notion that there’s no indoctrination going on.

As for environmentalism. Check out the kids’ books available at most natural history museums and zoos. They’re full of eco-babble. Sorry if I don’t remember the titles of books I refused to buy. But c’mon! Captain Planet? Does no one remember this? For those unaware of it, Steven Landsburg’s discussion of the forced environmental indoctrination of little kids is probably the best of its kind. Or you might want to walk down the cereal aisle at your local Whole Foods. I could also go into the messages within otherwise tolerable kids programming like Sesame Street or Barney, but that would seem like overkill.

Simply put: Andrew picked the wrong example to single out the perfidy of conservatives, and lefty readers who deny it are kidding themselves.