Normally I agree with Michelle Malkin but in this case, I don’t.
‘Moon’ illustrator’s missing cigarette angers bookseller

Published Saturday, November 19, 2005
KANSAS CITY (AP) – A recent change in the photo of a well-known children’s …

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I am … astounded. Simply astounded. This is America, right? We haven't abrogated our rights as protected under our Constitution and our political system is still a democratic republic, isn't it? I mean, this isn't like Iran or anything…

‘Moon’ illustrator’s missing cigarette angers bookseller

A recent change in the photo of a well-known children’s book illustrator to remove a cigarette from his hand has drawn criticism from a Kansas City bookstore.

Pete Cowdin, owner of Reading …

Beyond just being a good writer, one of the things that Arthur C. Clark did in his science fiction was to posit technologies that seemed outlandish, but turn out to be fairly prescient. For example, the Fountains of Paradise posited

One of the first books we bought Katie was Goodnight, Moon. Apparently some copies of the book show the illustrator, Clement Hurd. In older copies, he had a cigarette in his hand. Now the cigarette has been edited out. Via Michelle Malkin.The WaPo has …

This story reminded me of a book I saw on the shelf years ago. “The Commissar Vanishes” is described as follows by Amazon.com:

In Stalinist Russia, it was commonplace for Soviet history to be rewritten with inconvenient participants removed

More Cigarette Revisionism. More at Michelle Malkin….

In GOODNIGHT MOON…GOODBYE CIGARETTE, Michelle Malkin has the details and the “before” and “after” photos. To distinguish digitally altered images from unaltered ones, a committee on photographic standards at New York University has proposed that man…