Creepy Artwork for Kids

And now for something from the Disturbing Department.

We recently ordered some books through Charlie's pre-school. Among our selections was a series called the "Thomas & Friends" Book Club. (For those of you who don't have kids, Thomas is a train engine that has a show on PBS and is wildly popular with the under-5 demographic). This week we received a pretty elaborate piece of cardboard that will serve as the bookends for these books. The picture above is of a drawing on one side of the bookend.

C-r-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-p-y ...

What are these train engines smiling so maniacally about? Did they just drop off a few thousand people at a Nazi death camp? They hiding bin Laden?

Something evil is afoot here.