You've Been Warned

I hardly ever spoil the ending of a movie or a book, but since this book has been out for nearly 30 years and it sucks anyway, I'm going to save a lot of parents a lot of money and a lot of time explaining.
This whole weekend, I've been wondering, where have I heard of this book "Bridge to Terabithia" before. Well, I did a little research on the Web and remember the book from my childhood. A lot of children were and still are subjected in the 4th-6th grade to this story about children playing make believe and only to find out (WARNING) the girl dies from an accident at the end.

Yes, I maybe be awful, but you'll thank me later. The new movie is being advertised as a Lord of the Rings/Chronicles of Narnia style of movie. As a writer, book reader and movie lover, I feel a triple duty to warn you not to take your kids to see this movie unless you they already fully understand death. And while I'm talking about death, this book, a 1978 Newberry Award winner has been applauded for tackling the subject of death. If the book didn't end with the girl's death, it wouldn't have ever been published. I know a lot of people like the book, but I never have because it's a book that cops out about kids playing make believe by offing one of them. A Taste of Blackberries, another book about the death of a child, focused more on the death.

I know I'm going to make people mad, especially if their child googles Bridge to Terabithia and finds this, but I've seen reference made to the death on Amazon.com and other places.