Bad Word in Context

I volunteer with Nick's school class during Library time. At this point it's a lot of reminding kids not to climb on the shelves and trying to find a Sponge Bob book that child X hasn't read yet.

This morning the kids started asking about Easter books. At this library, locating the Easter books is made simpler by the little sticker someone has placed at the top of the spine. Easter books have a Bunny. Halloween books have a witch. Christmas books have candy canes. You'd think this would make finding a book fairly simple.

However, not all the children were satisfied with this search method. One child in particular always needs a little extra help with her search for the perfect book, and she is not satisfied until you look something up on the computer for her.

While I was helping her shuffle books around and she was making up and changing her mind, another child ran up to us, his face in a panic. "There's a bad word in that book! The book that kid has on the rug. It's a bad word!"

The librarian and I exchanged glances, both wondering what book in the children's library would possibly have a bad word in it? Or what word was being mistaken for a "Bad Word!"

I went over and took a look at the book. The boy smiled at me in that way, the one that has discovered a broken rule in the grown-up world. He pointed at the offending word.

It was an Easter book with a religious slant.

The word was "Jesus."

And I'm just going to leave it at that.