Conservative publisher Brave Books debuts with ‘Elephants Are Not Birds’

A new conservative publisher wants to eliminate the “wake up” of bedtime.

Launching this week, Brave Books will focus exclusively on stories for children, and offers parents “a conservative alternative to the current cultural activism our children are being taught in schools, in the entertainment they watch and the books they read, ” according to their website.

Company CEO Trent Talbot, whose first child was born more than a year ago, formed Brave Books when, he said, he began to notice “there was a real war going on over the earth. the hearts and minds of our children. And everywhere I look is propaganda,” the Montgomery, Texas father told The Post.

A business ophthalmologist, Talbot points to Abram X. Kendi’s picture book, “”Antiracist Baby, “Calling on parents and children to “make justice a reality”, is the content that needs to be counterbalanced.

“When my eyes were open, I saw it everywhere and I couldn’t see it,” Talbot said. “I think there is a need for books that can help parents teach the values ​​they hold dear.”

Brave Books’ first offer is called “Elephants are not birds, ” The story of an elephant named Kevin who loves to sing, and then is convinced by a vulture – named Culture – that it fights so well, it really must be a bird.

Culture gives Kevin a pair of wings and a beak to wear, though his attempts to live life as a bird fail in the pages that follow.

Author Ashley St. Clair said: “The book is an unprovoked criticism of transgender acceptance and the growing number of young people identifying as transgender.

“You get special attention in class now if you say, ‘Hey, my name’s not Billy, it’s Amanda,’” St. Clair, 22, told The Post. in November, and it’s scary to think he can come home and say, ‘My friends all identify as something else and that’s how I feel’ and make my son cry because no hormone replacement therapy.”

Brave Books is moving away from Amazon and only selling directly from its own website, offering parents one book per month for an annual subscription fee of $12.99.

Other books planned include, “The Island of Free Ice Cream,” by former OAN employee Jack Posobiec, which will deal with Communism. The company is also calling on Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), to write “Fame, Blame, and the Raft of Shame” about cancel culture.

“Elephants are not birds,” says Talbot, which has been well received by children aged 4 to 12.

“I would love to see it taught in schools and on summer reading lists and we will fight to make that happen,” he said.