Rodney The Rat

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They will also soon be joined by a new rat, Ronnie, who Luke and Jess are in the process of adopting. I can honestly tell you that the very first time I saw Rodney was when I was a seventeen-year-old kid. I happened to be in the Toronto Pearson International Airport and waiting for my flight to Paris, France when I felt someone or something touch my right shoulder. Naturally I jumped. Who wouldn't? When I looked to my right I immediately saw that the toucher was, in fact, a classicaly-dressed rat. What happens instead, though, is that Wodney stoops to the level of the classmates who bullied him in the first place, and Camilla, who I honestly didn't think was supposed to be purely evil, is driven from town never to be seen again. It's a realistic ending in many ways, because children do sometimes solve their own problems with bullying by bullying someone else to become part of the in crowd. But do we want to say "hooway" to that? Or do we want to use picture books to teach a better, more understanding, and more empathetic, way of coexisting with other people? Yes, there are books where it is appropriate and humorous to send the bad guy running for the hills due to his own stupidity. But it's unsettling when that bad guy is the animal equivalent of a chubby little girl with a lot to learn about classroom manners. I'd be curious to know what children think when they hear this story, but I don't feel right sharing it with them to try and find out. While Roddy was getting dressed in the opening of the film, a Wolverine costume and Wallace suit was seen in his closet which is a nod to the actor and the company who created the film.

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