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What are the hidden messages in the storybooks we read to our kids? These are some of the books from the study. From left: The Cat That Eats Letters by Ge Jing. The Foolish Old Man Who Removed The Mountain by Cai Feng. The Jar of Happiness by Aisla Burrows. from left: Shandong Education Press ; Shanghai people's Fine Arts Publishing House ; Child's Play International . That's a question that may occur to parents as their children dive into the new books that arrived over the holidays. And it's a question that inspired a team of researchers to set up a study. Specifically, they wondered how the lessons varied from storybooks of one country to another. For a taste of their findings, take a typical book in China: The Cat That Eats Letters . Ostensibly it's about a cat that has an appetite for sloppy letters — "written too large or too small, or if the letter is mi
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