Airport Bookstore Shopping

I think it was in Miami International Airport that we had extra time to browse in a large bookstore. Anna was interested in this pop-up book. I was willing to consider it since it was on sale and actually a good value.

However, even the cover was a give-a-way that this was not a well-conceived children's book. Pop-ups are usually for young children, and pop-ups on frightening things could lead to nightmares, right?

Then again, these seem to be classical kinds of monsters, and since I'm exposing the kids to Shakespeare's tragedies already (through the Shakespeare for Kids series), why not throw in Medusa for good measure?
The griffin seemed harmless enough and quite classical (thus, acceptable).

But then we flipped to this, which is just gross. There were more like this, but I was shy about photographing the whole book without buying it. And I certainly didn't want to buy it. Anna agreed.

Some poor child probably received this from a traveling relative who picked it up while rushing through the airport thinking they got a good buy on a last-minute gift.