[zeroonetwothree]

Exactly. I "learned" QBasic when I was 5-6 and it was really exciting because it was the actual language that implemented some of the games I liked playing. Kids like to learn about the real world. They can tell when you give them something simplified and they often don't like it.

[chillacy]

I don't recall not liking The Cat in The Hat when I was a kid just because it was a more simple version of The Ego and The Id by Sigmund Freud.

In the same vein I can see these languages as the equivalent of a picture book for programming languages.