For what age is Treasure Island?

The urbanMamas community is always such a wealth of support and perspective.  Shari emails:

I'm thinking about taking some or all of my kids to the Oregon Children's Theater/Captain Bogg & Salty showing of Treasure Island. But it has been so long since I read the book, I can't remember for what ages it would be appropriate. Is anyone familiar enough with the book or the show to make a recommendation? My children are ages 5 and 5 (boys) and 8 (girl).

Sunday Comics Ain't Always G Rated

I know that I've talked to many a mamas about no longer listening to NPR after the kids reach a certain age, but do we also have to censor the Sunday comics?  Teresa emailed us recently:

Call me crazy, but now that my 2nd grader can read, I am finding myself concerned with, of all things, the Sunday comics. I know, I know, we all remember french toast and pouring over Charlie Brown and his kite antics and Calvin and Hobbs shooting a cannon through the snowman. But, last fall, after my husband had gotten in the habit of reading the Sunday comics to my 4 yr. old and 7 yr. old sons, I took a look at what is actually in there. Mark Trail is lovely and Dennis the Menace is still up to his old tricks. But I didn't like the strip that showed a teenager in high school class fantasizing about his teacher draped over her desk, half-naked in a darkly lit room with a bright light trained on her curves. That really was in the Oregonian's Sunday comics, I think it was fall 2007. I thought to myself, "You're overreacting. It's just the comics. Let it go."

Until this Sunday's comics, March 2. "Pearls Before Swine" has a son, a zebra no less, plastering "Girls Gone Wacky" videos, with voluptuous bikini clad lasses on the covers, all over the outside of his house and yard. The zebra dad says, "My son's a perv."

I know my young sons absolutely do not need an introduction to strippers and video porn. (Heck, a drive in the car past strip clubs and adult stores can take care of that.) So why the heck does it need to be in our Sunday Oregonian's bastian of Sunday morning entertainment; the Sunday comics? Anyone else take the time to look past Family Circle and see what's in there sometimes? It ain't always Rated G. What do you think about the Sunday comics for your kids who can read or for those even younger? (The comic pictures described here were quite vivid and telling.)