Editing Good Simon Says

'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a propaganda books aimed at teaching children of the [[Crown Empire]] proper behaviour.<ref name="11.x">“Good Simon is from ‘Good Simon Says’, it’s a book series.  Simon is a good boy and does things right, he’s faithful, true and obedient, and he listens well.  He’s polite.  Whatever Simon does right, Seth does wrong.  Because Seth is bad.  Sometimes there are other characters, like Sadie, who is mean and angry, or Sable, who works with animals, and there are lessons with-”<br><br>“I know the books,” Duncan said, cutting Ashton off.  They were part of a series that taught about social mores, emotions, and patriotism to the Crown.  The books were popular with very young children, those with social disabilities, and, apparently, experiments who were learning those same things from scratch.  “You like the books?” - [https://twigserial.wordpress.com/2016/07/05 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11.x]]</ref><!--
https://twigserial.wordpress.com/2016/08/20/black-sheep-13-5-lamb/ for sable
What good Simon would do https://twigserial.wordpress.com/2017/08/01/crown-of-thorns-20-3/

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==Cast==
*Simon - always does right
**Patriot - Simons dog
*Seth - always does wrong
*Sable - friend of Simon's who is an animal lover
*Sadie - a mean girl<ref>“You also pledged to be more like Good Simon and to read the books.  And you said you’d do your best to act like Sadie and I got very frustrated and you wouldn’t listen.  Now I know you were teasing me, but I didn’t realize it at the time.”<br>[...]<br>“Oh,” Ashton said.  “When you talked about me giving you a hand- you are a worse person than Sadie is, Sylvester, and Sadie is a ''caricature''.” - [https://twigserial.wordpress.com/2017/02/18 Excerpt] from [[Gut Feeling 17.5]]</ref>
==Named Books==
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#Good Simon and the Small War<ref name="16.x e1">“How about this?  I’ll speak your language.  Good Simon, book six.”<br><br>“Good Simon and the Small War.”<br><br>“Sadie gets mean, and what’s the lesson at the end of the book?”<br><br>“That you need to weigh your wants, needs, and feelings and make sure that they aren’t keeping your betters from doing their jobs.”<br><br>“It’s supposed to be that you have to watch that your wants and feelings don’t infringe on the needs, wants and feelings of others.”<br><br>“But in the story, the new teacher that Sadie is mostly being mean to is supposed to be allegorical,” Ashton said.  “She represents the hard working and well-intentioned leadership we have in the Crown and the Academy and the story is really about how we need to listen to them and then everything is better.”<br>[...]<br>“You’re not supposed to recognize the hidden influences and meanings and take them as fact, Ashton.”<br><br>“I grew up with the books, and when the world and the people around me seemed very strange, I thought about the books.  I think it would be strange to rely on them that much and miss something like that.” - [https://twigserial.wordpress.com/2017/02/04 excerpt] from [[Interlude 16.x]]</ref>
==Trivia==
*Cartoons and comics, such as [[Wikipedia:Goofus and Gallant|Goofus and Gallant]], are part of a longstanding fictional genre trying to teach children what they think of as good behavior.
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