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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2015 21:21:50 GMT -5
Parents can be crazy...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2015 21:23:34 GMT -5
I run book club for our group and always have extra choices, because I never seem able to predict all of which books parents might object to and for what reason...
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Post by teen persuasion on Jan 21, 2015 21:31:24 GMT -5
Yeah, I love those books, too. I'll read them to my kids (or, did when they were younger), but I watch what I will read at preschool storyhour at the library. A lot of older stories are no longer politically correct now. I love Beatrix Potter's books, but corporal punishment is a touchy subject. One of the stories I previewed for tomorrow was definitely out - Mom and Dad were going out, and wondered if the new babysitter would be dependable. Dad says, "At least Carl is there." Carl the dog gets toddler dressed and they escape through the doggie door and traipse all over, sledding and stealing hot dogs, etc. They get back home and in a window before parents return, Carl even puts clothes in the hamper! I'm sure my storyhour parents would love me planting ideas like this in the preschoolers' minds, LOL. Cute book, but not touching it with a ten foot pole at the library. RU FKM? It's just a story. We're a little gun shy about community perception. We had a few (3) individuals start a campaign to defund the library, they even got it brought to a vote. We were pretty happy that the community overwhelmingly supported us in the vote, and we'd like to keep it that way. Besides, there are lots of books to choose from, it's not like I need that book. I also panned the dog sled books - too long for a toddler's attention span. |
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Post by taz157 on Jan 21, 2015 21:59:41 GMT -5
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Post by Formerly SK on Jan 21, 2015 23:00:31 GMT -5
Quite a few (most?) children's books seem to have bad/dead/absentee parents. I realized after awhile it had nothing to do with anything except that it allowed the kids to pursue the plot the author wanted. Adventures can't really happen if kids do homework right after school, eat dinner at 5pm, and go to bed at 7:30.
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Post by Formerly SK on Jan 21, 2015 23:01:39 GMT -5
As to the OP's link, my main thought is the author seriously needs to get more books. There are TONS of good bedtime books for toddlers. No sense in beating your head against a wall.
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Post by teen persuasion on Jan 22, 2015 8:20:12 GMT -5
As to the OP's link, my main thought is the author seriously needs to get more books. There are TONS of good bedtime books for toddlers. No sense in beating your head against a wall. Doesn't matter how many books you have, kids will have their favorite they want you to read a million times. I secretly think these weird books grab children's attention because they are equally incomprehensible to the kids. They keep trying to figure it out, so they have to read it just one more time... Don't you do a double take at something that just doesn't make sense? |
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jan 22, 2015 8:38:49 GMT -5
I love it! And the comments are even better. "HOW DARE YOU CRITICIZE THIS WONDERFUL BOOK? WHO CARES ABOUT TOMATO ORANGE WALLS AND AN OPEN FIRE IN A BABY'S ROOM?" Bunch of humorless wackos! The illustrator is award winning, world renowned, and trained in Paris. Don't you troglodytes understand the symbolism in the room?! No. No I don't. I admit to hating this book but dutifully read it to the kids when they asked. But I preferred to read Sandra Boynton to the kids. |
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jan 22, 2015 8:44:10 GMT -5
I hear you on the Carl books. Kids picked one out at the library and we read it while on vacation. I'd shelved them for years but never looked though them.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Jan 22, 2015 9:10:50 GMT -5
As to the OP's link, my main thought is the author seriously needs to get more books. There are TONS of good bedtime books for toddlers. No sense in beating your head against a wall. Doesn't matter how many books you have, kids will have their favorite they want you to read a million times. I secretly think these weird books grab children's attention because they are equally incomprehensible to the kids. They keep trying to figure it out, so they have to read it just one more time... Don't you do a double take at something that just doesn't make sense? My armchair analysis is that this is a bedtime book for toddlers. Toddlers that are just learning to talk love to name different objects &/or animals. You see this in different books for toddlers like "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and "Little Blue Truck". Since this is a bedtime book, you also can't have too much going on. (This isn't the only bedtime book we own that just says goodnight to a bunch of different things.) You do want them to go to sleep after all. I think it's the rhythmic nature of the words that mesmerizes them. |
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Post by ArchietheDragon on Jan 22, 2015 9:12:10 GMT -5
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Post by Bob Ross on Jan 22, 2015 10:21:27 GMT -5
Ok, I just scanned over the content. It's like the mom jeans of satire. Or mom-satire. Can I coin that term? I just did. Which probably explains why all you moms out there dig it. You have not read it 1,748,580 Times. It doesn't matter. Good satire should be way darker and edgier. This reminds me of someone doing a bad Jerry Seinfeld impression. "The tomato-colored floor. What's the deal with that?" "The thick bookcase. What's the deal with that?" "The phone on the night stand. What's the deal with that?" And so on. |
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Post by thyme4change on Jan 22, 2015 10:38:14 GMT -5
I also missed out on this one. We did Sandra Boyton. We also had one called Good night Gorilla. That was an easy one to memorize with context clues. So mostly the kids "read" it ti me.
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Jan 22, 2015 11:11:30 GMT -5
OMFG! Awesome, just awesome! Good thing everyone else left for the day, so I could laugh out loud at this! Are you not allowed to laugh at work?  Well, not with the accompanying snorting that sometimes sneaks out with it.  It lets people know that I am not working. |
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Post by Bob Ross on Jan 22, 2015 11:20:36 GMT -5
Are you not allowed to laugh at work? Well, not with the accompanying snorting that sometimes sneaks out with it. It lets people know that I am not working. Wow. Is there a guy dressed as a Viking who sits at the front of the room and rhythmically beats a drum, too? Laughter in the workplace. God forbid. |
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jan 22, 2015 11:27:01 GMT -5
After all, almost ALL children in this country live in an apartment in ManhattanThat's what TT said. The rest of us are living in sod houses by Plum Creek.  I was reading Curious George and it dawned on me that the man with the yellow hat is a poacher. I am so disillusioned. 
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jan 22, 2015 11:39:43 GMT -5
I haven't read the biography but I read The Wilder Life www.amazon.com/The-Wilder-Life-Adventures-Prairie/dp/B00AZ8DDPGI checked it out from the library. It was really good. I found it interesting to learn more about the real Ingalls and Wilders. The author mentioned she did get a lot of hate mail from fans of the show with Michael Langdon. Which isn't remotely similar to reality OR the books. I still love the books, I recently found my old copies and have them on my book shelf ready for when Gwen is old enough to read them. |
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Jan 22, 2015 11:42:28 GMT -5
Well, not with the accompanying snorting that sometimes sneaks out with it. It lets people know that I am not working. Wow. Is there a guy dressed as a Viking who sits at the front of the room and rhythmically beats a drum, too? Laughter in the workplace. God forbid. You know my office manager? She looks like a dude in drag. On the day she wears her pink polyester muumuu, you could go blind. |
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jan 22, 2015 11:47:19 GMT -5
There's a biography that came out about Laura Ingalls Wilder recently that supposedly blows up all sorts of myths. When I'm ready for some disillusionment I'll read it. Yeah, I heard about that one too. The print run was 15,000 and it was sold out ASAP. The printing company was scared to go that HIGH of a print run and now they're on their 3rd run, to clear the Amazon orders. What I've heard specifically is that the original stories weren't considered salable so Laura and her daughter edited them. An example is some kind of harassment incident with railroad workers and how Jack the dog passed. I'm looking forward to reading it but I think I'll order it for my Kindle. I don't think I need a paper copy. ETA - I'm not seeing a Kindle version yet.  |
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