Winnie the Pooh “run, hide, fight” book teaches Texas children as young as four years how to survive shootings if a gunman enters their school.

The subtitle to the Stay Safe book is: “If there is danger, let Winnie-the-Pooh and his Crew show you what to do: Run Hide Fight.” The unofficial Winnie the Pooh book features children’s favorite honey-loving bear, created by AA Milne with illustrations by EH Shepard.

It has been produced by a law enforcement consulting firm in Houston and has been distributed by schools in Dallas, Texas for children in pre-kindergarten and elementary classes to take back home. “Run, hide, fight” are FBI-advised tactics “should the unthinkable occur”.

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Other characters from the Hundred Acre Wood in the book tell kids: “If it is safe to get away, we should RUN like Rabbit instead of stay … If danger is near, do not fear, HIDE like Pooh does until the police appear.”

When it comes to explaining the “hide” part of the safety instructions, Pooh is seen burying his face in the pot full of honey. There is a certain section in the book where Kanga and baby Roo are shown wearing boxing gloves. The text says: “If danger finds us, don’t stay, run away. If we can’t get away, we have to FIGHT with all our might.”

The book was distributed among the students on Monday without the school administrators or teachers explaining any sort of context to them or their parents. Incidentally, it was given out on the first anniversary of Uvalde, the deadly mass shooting in a Texas elementary school in which 19 children and two teachers were killed.

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One of the teachers in an elementary school said that she found the book “disturbing.” “

“The fact that people think it’s a better idea to put out this book to a child rather than actually take any actions to stop shootings from happening in our schools, that really bothers me. It makes me feel so angry, so disappointed. It’s a year since Uvalde, and nothing has been done other than this book. That is putting it on the kids,” the teacher said.

Governor of California, Gavin Newsom also commented on the book on Twitter.