{"id":8333,"date":"1997-07-02T21:48:49","date_gmt":"1997-07-02T21:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/?post_type=catbird-seat&#038;p=8333"},"modified":"2020-04-23T21:49:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T21:49:48","slug":"occultic-childrens-books","status":"publish","type":"catbird-seat","link":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/catbird-seat\/occultic-childrens-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Occultic Children&#8217;s Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\nIt is impossible not to notice store bookshelves glutted with intermediate level books which dwell on the occult, psychic phenomena, aliens, witchcraft, and vampires.\u00a0 The 4-8 grade level is a highly impressionable, even fragile age of limited but growing discernment.\u00a0 Curiosity and imagination abound.\u00a0 One education strength sadly lacking in today&#8217;s youth is useful, even humorous, creativity.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the most popular books in stores today take the reader&#8217;s imagination to the dark side.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nBy far the most popular are the R.L. Stine <em>Goosebumps<\/em> books.\u00a0 These are year round themes of Halloween type horrors.\u00a0 Many deal with spooky mishaps involving weird images, and most all have death and blood somewhere.\u00a0 One book I scanned dealt with a werecat (the animal had the powers of a werewolf) which tried to control the main character.\u00a0 There are two sequel series by Stine called <em>Fear Street<\/em> and <em>Ghosts of Fear<\/em> which get into more vampire, occult, and psychic phenomena.\u00a0 I found no mention in the books that these ideas might not be normal occurrences.\u00a0 Some of the stories will become a new Fox For Kids series this fall.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOther books of this same nature include the Christopher Pike series which introduces young readers to control by vampires, crystals, and mystic ceremonies.\u00a0 Likewise, author L.J. 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