The Walking Dead: Even The Children’s Books Are Depressing…

While ComicBook.com took time out last weekend during the season premiere of AMC’s The Walking Dead to confirm that, yes, those leapfrog statues do exist at the Atlanta Airport, it never even occurred to us to wonder what book it was that Carol was reading to the kids at storytime.That’s too bad because, according to a Redditor who recognized the text, it was actually kind of a cool find–and something with some thematic significance.The passage Carol reads to the kid before the knives come out is from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Specifically, it’s form a portion of the book where Tom and Becky Thatcher are lost in a cave, with little hope of rescue and a candle that’s burning down to almost nothing.