tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24750669314928241142024-03-17T16:04:36.338+00:00Freelance FlaneurInappropriately titled for more than a decade nowDavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17297907236641690965noreply@blogger.comBlogger1167125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475066931492824114.post-2142730228331852822024-03-17T00:00:00.000+00:002024-03-17T00:00:00.133+00:00Strange Invitation by Aimee<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUlYDB9snyHlC9W0zDarSBk7IiaQFgFpgcHYKkrxDSEj8j_HiIRIWr8HiNWzJn2R_5SD4SoeTwZ3P1uPAY1pRrOCh6nzMbhABKf07R3lCeDiYOp68N2evJQbdj_Im3ll6CrdMpvZCGdrhIPmgQlx3u9aENjbs5XAP-bgYiNJd7hQeYk-U7PxT-9f7I_38/s3264/strangeinvitation1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUlYDB9snyHlC9W0zDarSBk7IiaQFgFpgcHYKkrxDSEj8j_HiIRIWr8HiNWzJn2R_5SD4SoeTwZ3P1uPAY1pRrOCh6nzMbhABKf07R3lCeDiYOp68N2evJQbdj_Im3ll6CrdMpvZCGdrhIPmgQlx3u9aENjbs5XAP-bgYiNJd7hQeYk-U7PxT-9f7I_38/w480-h640/strangeinvitation1.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTve85W6BUESk3nJzuKssoNaAkf9m8lEyCx0GUB0XcQ_dzIXoIM1cjtvoPuqHEXE5IW0fJP2GiniFSI7hvYSj495Fpnsn6xKd5sm-TAvUHCa8jsPvhqW6EbYtKGGldFp3GSg22S5fivWYReK4jPwp7xUFMiE-lgHOeZt9ST7XhtY6qkF0rLyMHJKtqbfg/s275/thesolarsystemalifttheflapbook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="275" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTve85W6BUESk3nJzuKssoNaAkf9m8lEyCx0GUB0XcQ_dzIXoIM1cjtvoPuqHEXE5IW0fJP2GiniFSI7hvYSj495Fpnsn6xKd5sm-TAvUHCa8jsPvhqW6EbYtKGGldFp3GSg22S5fivWYReK4jPwp7xUFMiE-lgHOeZt9ST7XhtY6qkF0rLyMHJKtqbfg/s1600/thesolarsystemalifttheflapbook.jpg" width="275" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">J. Mappin, <i>The Solar System / The Seven Continents of the World: A Lift-the-Flap Book</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2010 / Board books / 24 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>***</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div>For future reference, I imagine.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibDrvvD8KBNmPkOp_P_rsN1qfGmMV4relm9HyuWG3an3TX2NhNwOYSZ6p_SnPhuA5abYA3UZy6yHTFccAhId7Q1jPFLX_J77JXTQLJ1Tm3UESuaPiFh0JDEv2V5uwMDtsNsxPG74t3p7X33Eu1kA1atO6_3xZAaxLDcp3ggXfocN_zQo8ZAOUnwRwLa8I/s200/childrenlikeushomesaroundtheworld.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="158" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibDrvvD8KBNmPkOp_P_rsN1qfGmMV4relm9HyuWG3an3TX2NhNwOYSZ6p_SnPhuA5abYA3UZy6yHTFccAhId7Q1jPFLX_J77JXTQLJ1Tm3UESuaPiFh0JDEv2V5uwMDtsNsxPG74t3p7X33Eu1kA1atO6_3xZAaxLDcp3ggXfocN_zQo8ZAOUnwRwLa8I/s1600/childrenlikeushomesaroundtheworld.jpg" width="158" /></a></div>Moira Butterfield, <i>Children Like Us: Homes Around the World</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2016 / Library book / 32 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div>She prefers escapism over documentary.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMl4lIl7la4VSALQ2XZv6fO3tcqviNb3SNFv4Jk9YKD7nxsTWgLnS90kiNd0SxSpiIT_7zhs3t2NSX4H17PsbrLByTvy6cyVwv7mak-H5hJbz2f29WiqA18RndByeWxHdOjjl_sDh5VrdyaUXD_UXUw3L7PUtxoP7nuhZIaINOEtP-IPYvjuzpQ7JEiWs/s200/pokemonwherespikachu.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="151" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMl4lIl7la4VSALQ2XZv6fO3tcqviNb3SNFv4Jk9YKD7nxsTWgLnS90kiNd0SxSpiIT_7zhs3t2NSX4H17PsbrLByTvy6cyVwv7mak-H5hJbz2f29WiqA18RndByeWxHdOjjl_sDh5VrdyaUXD_UXUw3L7PUtxoP7nuhZIaINOEtP-IPYvjuzpQ7JEiWs/s1600/pokemonwherespikachu.jpg" width="151" /></a></div>Unknown, <i>Pokémon: Where's Pikachu?</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2023 / Library book / 40 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Last year's update with fresh puzzles to tax non-colourblind kids for all of a few seconds.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVLgZY3VP5v03RgUwEMrdy5CGbiH80svNsCWCW4IuugYMwYqw8tKVdEiA1fYGbwIICm3OvN2duDu5slFk9AzMhxt0Ep8F3oalgxm44-l4rHOl21QdTZCL7jlYejUGLpy-7TgjsLUvwayfuWeumfS6rBFbMyadjDp56agdgLZ3937D9db0LWvhO_B6RS2M/s200/mixedupfairytales.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="160" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVLgZY3VP5v03RgUwEMrdy5CGbiH80svNsCWCW4IuugYMwYqw8tKVdEiA1fYGbwIICm3OvN2duDu5slFk9AzMhxt0Ep8F3oalgxm44-l4rHOl21QdTZCL7jlYejUGLpy-7TgjsLUvwayfuWeumfS6rBFbMyadjDp56agdgLZ3937D9db0LWvhO_B6RS2M/s1600/mixedupfairytales.jpg" width="160" /></a></div>Hilary Robinson and Nick Sharratt, <i>Mixed Up Fairy Tales</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2005 / Library book / 32 split pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>****</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The comedy potential of treating the Enormous Turnip as if it's a person still hasn't run out.</div><div><br /></div>Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17297907236641690965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475066931492824114.post-74866701512181025972024-03-05T00:00:00.000+00:002024-03-05T00:00:00.154+00:00Babyliography CLXII<div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIeMmu2n7rU3kUfenItkm7uVHzdIvvL8BcBdrBHbAHBl1Dc6NDXpLlT3PFiVTAxQXNd9ganVlIXc3P8xf6JwZ4aCmeHi2oFut1fi-Tz4_mO7Rxqmx9RRqb8HdaGCZwZl-O_ZDngKT1-VQzIedRjG-tovsU43PS1XcbGomKXC6tbF2Yqc92HzjpkMLneuA/s200/unicornnotwanted.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIeMmu2n7rU3kUfenItkm7uVHzdIvvL8BcBdrBHbAHBl1Dc6NDXpLlT3PFiVTAxQXNd9ganVlIXc3P8xf6JwZ4aCmeHi2oFut1fi-Tz4_mO7Rxqmx9RRqb8HdaGCZwZl-O_ZDngKT1-VQzIedRjG-tovsU43PS1XcbGomKXC6tbF2Yqc92HzjpkMLneuA/s1600/unicornnotwanted.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Fred Blunt, <i>Unicorn Not Wanted</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2023 / Library book / 32 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>***</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Surprisingly good for a unicorn book, in her favoured genre of belligerent metafiction.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Optical Illusions book</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Library book</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>***</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You know, one of those things that ruins your child's vision. Maybe I'll spot it again in the library and take a photo so I can compulsively update with the specifics.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinHGrsUDhs7K605NIdIv963KM2uHR2SnzDtO6y_5mkxV3mVrt6kukNLVoiL-KbqYMia_CuFhpyD1G1gRQ56J5l2QxuBYrxnN4uTdQ0KsHFX2ZbLB7iV7gM5aERbUsHv8YBdSjJIFS_fzs/s233/jumanji.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="233" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinHGrsUDhs7K605NIdIv963KM2uHR2SnzDtO6y_5mkxV3mVrt6kukNLVoiL-KbqYMia_CuFhpyD1G1gRQ56J5l2QxuBYrxnN4uTdQ0KsHFX2ZbLB7iV7gM5aERbUsHv8YBdSjJIFS_fzs/s1600/jumanji.jpg" width="233" /></a></div>Chris Van Allsburg, <i>Jumanji</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>1981 / Library book / 32 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>***</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I don't know if the restless night that followed was related.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkUdsbIe_Pp3PrlZCt_QzKkW9eXur_ZWIYtD0ELK7fs0f0eeN9t0lXTTh8N2Uj8-kKYJrbQG_M2tOGYo66nu56HrthdhmT5eYCGXApDJ7sbQBA1Rk-v01xukcrz_GcsKw12-fpeiLw7cbrwQcVccjRr2xp1g4EhpBErCEDDNPhC5YCaq8paZWHB-KUc6Q/s200/whodidaweewaitandsee.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="181" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkUdsbIe_Pp3PrlZCt_QzKkW9eXur_ZWIYtD0ELK7fs0f0eeN9t0lXTTh8N2Uj8-kKYJrbQG_M2tOGYo66nu56HrthdhmT5eYCGXApDJ7sbQBA1Rk-v01xukcrz_GcsKw12-fpeiLw7cbrwQcVccjRr2xp1g4EhpBErCEDDNPhC5YCaq8paZWHB-KUc6Q/s1600/whodidaweewaitandsee.jpg" width="181" /></a></div>Lucy Rowland and Mike Byrne, <i>Who Did a Wee? Wait and See!</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2022 / Library book / 32 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A companion to the equally unicorn-baiting poo book. One day she'll have taste.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnzLN-jaMCIUTHlN_BeAXGb3_WVj5HHsJZxw-30WiOcDDJofpYeYWnZGerqkUyvhKRKggkr5i0VSU50d6tpvEDX3BpNQiphFhhJNu53MroDk8N2uY2xpaeIbKCOeTCoYTC71i2AXTlbPf6L9OlDOxQJGuD5x4ZBwrt1g5OOCD5RHA3nPCmsFDI2GRqz8Y/s200/orisstars.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="172" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnzLN-jaMCIUTHlN_BeAXGb3_WVj5HHsJZxw-30WiOcDDJofpYeYWnZGerqkUyvhKRKggkr5i0VSU50d6tpvEDX3BpNQiphFhhJNu53MroDk8N2uY2xpaeIbKCOeTCoYTC71i2AXTlbPf6L9OlDOxQJGuD5x4ZBwrt1g5OOCD5RHA3nPCmsFDI2GRqz8Y/s1600/orisstars.jpg" width="172" /></a></div>Kristyna Litten, <i>Ori's Stars</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2020 / Library book / 32 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>***</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She may have a one-track mind, but this cosmic neomyth had a pretty enough cover to break through.</div><div><br /></div>Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17297907236641690965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475066931492824114.post-81469681681785081972024-03-01T00:00:00.073+00:002024-03-01T00:00:00.148+00:00Alrightreads: Films V<div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKmEuemYJoHLWcSOc3yDvxtM3MM-AgemKJP3EbgvAT0jjyG4m9Csrsa3_dDWjsHJQ6RFd4T1tEnffjHdvAN-ukItIyjGnkb2SHKHZESqqfWnP2JeyTrZ2YJHUFaqZS2pp9HhhYI_YpNLvqiS0bbEMfVlWXOoVVeVF6XgpTiukGGJsais70XjSwxUeXTFY/s200/kikisdeliveryservice.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="143" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKmEuemYJoHLWcSOc3yDvxtM3MM-AgemKJP3EbgvAT0jjyG4m9Csrsa3_dDWjsHJQ6RFd4T1tEnffjHdvAN-ukItIyjGnkb2SHKHZESqqfWnP2JeyTrZ2YJHUFaqZS2pp9HhhYI_YpNLvqiS0bbEMfVlWXOoVVeVF6XgpTiukGGJsais70XjSwxUeXTFY/s1600/kikisdeliveryservice.jpg" width="143" /></a></div>Eiko Kadono, <i>Kiki's Delivery Service</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>1985 / Ebook / 259 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>****</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Not as good as the film, but some fun deleted scenes and illuminating context for minor details.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLBDIdeXCjw2jhbQBvjgkGF4KtmBBpGv6ZpPvnb8k_yLQp1Nu95G3rPN9QnI9WwlXunrQyUeFrAwjb7UMAqQ1AM2LYjbok1_MkuG3NA4-cubcdMLe5DNrZ_lPe6-21jCRyfEFKVmvPSV_vam8dl5E7RRvSlLN3fTpwaRFPauysXj3Jdv7MyjSClfR6ous/s200/tokyostory.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="142" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLBDIdeXCjw2jhbQBvjgkGF4KtmBBpGv6ZpPvnb8k_yLQp1Nu95G3rPN9QnI9WwlXunrQyUeFrAwjb7UMAqQ1AM2LYjbok1_MkuG3NA4-cubcdMLe5DNrZ_lPe6-21jCRyfEFKVmvPSV_vam8dl5E7RRvSlLN3fTpwaRFPauysXj3Jdv7MyjSClfR6ous/s1600/tokyostory.jpg" width="142" /></a></div>Alastair Phillips, <i>Tokyo Story</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2022 / Ebook / 112 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>***</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Developers' guide for the painstaking mundanity simulation.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFNogRb9JjzsbbBi90-YXzoCQCCEXsW2AQWajKbtDO7b29lafIF43eDfHocI8pGB5OsE8pnW2XJYEJUMbtYfUgnUvZdIHA0sYMwkcPw46iWUfG9L7XbKodJbmHptqNr6NZDR7SM0EHeHstSBDx_kWyeG4tcZCFOeqrh4-hqvtRoMz9tZEWMhK3Uv8xoo0/s200/myneighbortotorosoundtrack.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="129" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFNogRb9JjzsbbBi90-YXzoCQCCEXsW2AQWajKbtDO7b29lafIF43eDfHocI8pGB5OsE8pnW2XJYEJUMbtYfUgnUvZdIHA0sYMwkcPw46iWUfG9L7XbKodJbmHptqNr6NZDR7SM0EHeHstSBDx_kWyeG4tcZCFOeqrh4-hqvtRoMz9tZEWMhK3Uv8xoo0/s1600/myneighbortotorosoundtrack.jpg" width="129" /></a></div>Kunio Hara, <i>Joe Hisaishi's Soundtrack for My Neighbor Totoro</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2020 / Ebook / 184 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>***</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Unavoidably a celebration of the joyful film as much as its inextricable and sometimes somewhat strange music.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguCciiO_BDgYZN88fmH3PGKdgVUcofz3rPO8Om0bu0urIqQQ4UapkBzmWgyGZ7k5PBUcbPkEXsgo2UgjJNyfgM7UKp-knLSn3PpIZm1JJ8FBq-hZTVmjVbCpixlbhde4FvtQ3Aep8x5aeonYfqlxyEnlps_xYWaBi0ZJrnlvXrsTIVAwfWFr7jXtnlq5A/s200/distantvoicesstilllives.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="141" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguCciiO_BDgYZN88fmH3PGKdgVUcofz3rPO8Om0bu0urIqQQ4UapkBzmWgyGZ7k5PBUcbPkEXsgo2UgjJNyfgM7UKp-knLSn3PpIZm1JJ8FBq-hZTVmjVbCpixlbhde4FvtQ3Aep8x5aeonYfqlxyEnlps_xYWaBi0ZJrnlvXrsTIVAwfWFr7jXtnlq5A/s1600/distantvoicesstilllives.jpg" width="141" /></a></div>Paul Farley, <i>Distant Voices, Still Lives</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2006 / Ebook / 96 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>****</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Authenticity appraisal and poetic paean.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq-5rklRzXMH4sxIgVqgvPuLTsQ663w8bfBXgfs-MdQxWpobTotUA-tD8tWGKPaaj_7ypoQ6ktkR-IpLpVWNvC_CiUnKNhf7dooKzzTa3UVRwRTsnRrFZkkUFVmr51iLFBq9azAJOnEZL5jh9xBUlt-oQdK84YP8JQ1Nld_pmjHOZTwOOu1Abw_Nm-Boc/s200/backtothefutureannual.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="136" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq-5rklRzXMH4sxIgVqgvPuLTsQ663w8bfBXgfs-MdQxWpobTotUA-tD8tWGKPaaj_7ypoQ6ktkR-IpLpVWNvC_CiUnKNhf7dooKzzTa3UVRwRTsnRrFZkkUFVmr51iLFBq9azAJOnEZL5jh9xBUlt-oQdK84YP8JQ1Nld_pmjHOZTwOOu1Abw_Nm-Boc/s1600/backtothefutureannual.jpg" width="136" /></a></div>David Bishop, Randall D. Larson and John Freeman, <i>Back to the Future Annual</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>1990 / Ebook / 64 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>***</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Not bad for a Christmas cash-in, but basically the three-in-one souvenir magazine with some interesting behind-the-scenes nuggets padded by redundant plot summaries. In fairness, the last video wouldn't be out for a while.</div></div><div><br /></div>Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17297907236641690965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475066931492824114.post-21544215783011055832024-02-27T00:00:00.001+00:002024-02-27T00:00:00.142+00:00Alrightreads: Preliminary<div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQMGdd360XhF87YQdj12wfWtESjP91ntAjY0InYaZVJFEdX-H32r_YF2GmLS3TX_isIxdV_Jgsmb9xeRLUk7MHKf_o5nQ3GREyLZJWLxKJ46iI5IqGH8x2BoU0cxgs6PZsMOm6OF5vcqBFLm-oYp426gzVd1ShL9NWdE7BMzoZVPou6EsiMqfHF-xIHAQ/s200/tomatocainandotherstories.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="133" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQMGdd360XhF87YQdj12wfWtESjP91ntAjY0InYaZVJFEdX-H32r_YF2GmLS3TX_isIxdV_Jgsmb9xeRLUk7MHKf_o5nQ3GREyLZJWLxKJ46iI5IqGH8x2BoU0cxgs6PZsMOm6OF5vcqBFLm-oYp426gzVd1ShL9NWdE7BMzoZVPou6EsiMqfHF-xIHAQ/s1600/tomatocainandotherstories.jpg" width="133" /></a></div>Nigel Kneale, <i>Tomato Cain and Other Stories</i></span><div><br /><div>1949 / Ebook / 256 pages</div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>***</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A diverse assortment of Manx produce, but a disappointing debut for one of the first great TV writers.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Faves:</b> 'Chains,' 'Curphey's Follower,' 'The Pond'</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="312" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5DXNNR1B44QECVfRmvSXZslqnwBdLrhEDtZ9RKVxAfnbYMXMeRCyo4-_BhFat2cat2fVOVWiX8rQqzlZtRx5xkNFpPIRvVbIAeJxMYcGtBRwac1O8Qq8_t1xEZGmDgDYzbZG07M04xEK40sfd0-FpuGjrpTRb7sKeQOfuD3JvsGVDca2bFS7fEePQ0Oc/s1600/monopolyjuniormylittlepony.jpg" width="312" /></a></i></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Monopoly Junior: My Little Pony – Friendship Is Magic</i></span><p></p><p>2015 / Trading board game / 2-4 players</p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>***</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Simplified almost to the brink of pointlessness, but still a step up from Orchard preschool games. I made sure to get the version that actually had places on the board rather than characters, I'd rather she become a ruthless landlord than a slaveowner.</p>Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17297907236641690965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475066931492824114.post-14264395992297579172024-02-21T00:00:00.000+00:002024-02-21T00:00:00.135+00:00Alrightgames: Catz<p><span style="font-size: large;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8kf9Ffj1J1uq2wX1IDvIf6bZO3fQaX0FerKIFv-G4cGE0Bb4Ur79AHCK156yHKQpTnHZqBj49u3_yJq2iNwhEnSQY0IdtJqeBsHE2NeXe3m-RT3XI4vMI84cmTJxnWYbn66w0_JA-SgeA8mfNXT832HKT_KY0uB3nbEnsOA39539SsHVo9oYXk0HlB6k/s303/catz.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="303" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8kf9Ffj1J1uq2wX1IDvIf6bZO3fQaX0FerKIFv-G4cGE0Bb4Ur79AHCK156yHKQpTnHZqBj49u3_yJq2iNwhEnSQY0IdtJqeBsHE2NeXe3m-RT3XI4vMI84cmTJxnWYbn66w0_JA-SgeA8mfNXT832HKT_KY0uB3nbEnsOA39539SsHVo9oYXk0HlB6k/s1600/catz.jpg" width="303" /></a></i></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Catz</i></span><p></p><p>2002 / Game Boy Advance emulator game / 1 player</p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>***</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I took on the recreational stress of feeding reminders so she didn't have to, what's one more critter to worry about? Kitty Eden deciding to join her on the bed was a heartwarming moment.</p>Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17297907236641690965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475066931492824114.post-4946106475087396062024-02-18T00:00:00.000+00:002024-02-18T00:00:00.139+00:00Alrightreads: Games V<span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS_Nn8WEY2pR9bdG1_khoK_gGaJbHlRd3_lLBV8FYV0YbZUaTif8Haqhp_f4tl_7z8xx1iX86ooHoIARzhJ_cIQBbrdmLy2qkKpljIB60YcnmoJgpBvc1z3f4jsJW6ivpcz3ei-iuBzeoUKZfSf1cl8EfnDIN5VueHHdGIVWQbPNT_UmVhRXEYBSHI_OI/s200/shootingstars.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="100" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS_Nn8WEY2pR9bdG1_khoK_gGaJbHlRd3_lLBV8FYV0YbZUaTif8Haqhp_f4tl_7z8xx1iX86ooHoIARzhJ_cIQBbrdmLy2qkKpljIB60YcnmoJgpBvc1z3f4jsJW6ivpcz3ei-iuBzeoUKZfSf1cl8EfnDIN5VueHHdGIVWQbPNT_UmVhRXEYBSHI_OI/s1600/shootingstars.jpg" width="100" /></a></div>Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, <i>Shooting Stars with Reeves and Mortimer</i></span><div><br /></div><div>1996 / Ebook / 120 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span><br /><div><br /></div><div><div>The game was the least interesting aspect of the show, and this DIY dilution seems awkward and fiddly, but their <i>Viz</i>-style top tips elsewhere gave some chuckles.</div><div><br /></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpNxJBZj5aRPMAe6FGkf0nre3gNValOl8iZAsZEQx1LrEY0jUbEUD03D0cfxwJXqAurTPejvn46erOYAeSsegkc8PF94ZpNwJSSd6-s3W89VNWkZ6D13FrNd3BNgE4LaQ9P4AwQ39cpVQEBxLGrCOZrDuYR2UZXT4AruJkv2vc8XGcwXSV3DeF2lRiMis/s200/startrekdeepspaceninetheultimatequizbook.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="150" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpNxJBZj5aRPMAe6FGkf0nre3gNValOl8iZAsZEQx1LrEY0jUbEUD03D0cfxwJXqAurTPejvn46erOYAeSsegkc8PF94ZpNwJSSd6-s3W89VNWkZ6D13FrNd3BNgE4LaQ9P4AwQ39cpVQEBxLGrCOZrDuYR2UZXT4AruJkv2vc8XGcwXSV3DeF2lRiMis/s1600/startrekdeepspaceninetheultimatequizbook.jpg" width="150" /></a></div>Mike Dugdale, <i>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – The Ultimate Quiz Book</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2012 / Ebook / 33 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Ultimate" is overselling this blog post with ideas above its space station, but it put me through my paces, scoring a respectable 123/150 (though I dispute what counts as a two-parter, and the false claim that PKD's 'We Can Remember It for You Wholesale' is a novel). There were also at least five typos, can't win 'em all.</div><div><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMoHLlZY1vrxGTc2hF7N4oH2YFk9qZkRmfsqVr9DhG-j8xBNgw328rwyrmT2cAA8p_-OC9cPvjoPa-FmGrGY6YVtvSnSWWY5wgFezJaYzN009txCa0svPuftFJdJnfByYpHaz7gjq8TRZq8360gUBE0nCuN6Cd-MovZYbJJTC_eQGSUsx3PWF7Eq7gnQQ/s200/SonictheHedgehog1&2SegasOfficialPlayersGuide.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="151" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMoHLlZY1vrxGTc2hF7N4oH2YFk9qZkRmfsqVr9DhG-j8xBNgw328rwyrmT2cAA8p_-OC9cPvjoPa-FmGrGY6YVtvSnSWWY5wgFezJaYzN009txCa0svPuftFJdJnfByYpHaz7gjq8TRZq8360gUBE0nCuN6Cd-MovZYbJJTC_eQGSUsx3PWF7Eq7gnQQ/s1600/SonictheHedgehog1&2SegasOfficialPlayersGuide.jpg" width="151" /></a></div>Rusel DeMaria and Zach Meston, <i>Sonic the Hedgehog 1 & 2: Sega's Official Player's Guide</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>1993 / Ebook / 173 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>****</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">About time I learned how to play these. Why are all the badniks gendered as male? Because they don't have ribbons and big eyelashes, I guess.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU_cjuZ5VCw_rYi1j_YfeNYHOl66RMp1SMWNG159rrfzKZLSmpzfW-tnB7ylDmvqfmpjD5sd_d0NhIlsKs8zvNpaEbXguOv0rGO8hbpGcM9k-vgYCLDaTXE3FV6RDZeLGDWrsDdzRzrBd34voHL4-U8tGI_OBN4_rSlWX8hTF4WAazNhdCIJP5NlOje1U/s200/dungeoncrawlercarl.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="125" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU_cjuZ5VCw_rYi1j_YfeNYHOl66RMp1SMWNG159rrfzKZLSmpzfW-tnB7ylDmvqfmpjD5sd_d0NhIlsKs8zvNpaEbXguOv0rGO8hbpGcM9k-vgYCLDaTXE3FV6RDZeLGDWrsDdzRzrBd34voHL4-U8tGI_OBN4_rSlWX8hTF4WAazNhdCIJP5NlOje1U/s1600/dungeoncrawlercarl.jpg" width="125" /></a></div>Matt Dinniman, <i>Dungeon Crawler Carl</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2020 / Audiobook / 446 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>***</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A gamer's gateway to reading, like adventure gamebooks didn't nail that in the 8-bit era.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIFVgqRUqaauaTuMfNjcLshiK4yNKbKG2T3bNXqjAWONfXBKb31iG9_Z0maFwiX7VwMm3ZUukM-qMMq-psaEp_YnpLJ81Z8sP_080xdTxZhgMzwP_ElA-ECHGD36kv9Fd1Zkd2xD6tJRT02bctUinrXRBnADjqZ5HLb4P5QFjSBhHcOOMf95pN5K1Nej8/s200/spurtacus.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="126" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIFVgqRUqaauaTuMfNjcLshiK4yNKbKG2T3bNXqjAWONfXBKb31iG9_Z0maFwiX7VwMm3ZUukM-qMMq-psaEp_YnpLJ81Z8sP_080xdTxZhgMzwP_ElA-ECHGD36kv9Fd1Zkd2xD6tJRT02bctUinrXRBnADjqZ5HLb4P5QFjSBhHcOOMf95pN5K1Nej8/s1600/spurtacus.jpg" width="126" /></a></div>Callista J. Hawkes, <i>Spurtacus: A Choose Your Own Erotic Story</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2014 / Ebook / 237 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">An authentic slavery simulator, particularly in the way it teases you with the illusion of choice. They don't care if you've got a headache.</div><div><br /></div></div>Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17297907236641690965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475066931492824114.post-46380096610880081042024-02-15T00:00:00.041+00:002024-02-15T00:00:00.343+00:00Alrightreads: Sizes<div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjadfX3FotGF4PXmWjgF7h5CjWUtuu8WsiKECCl5mUXi5V2iq_MwsuZCLkh3k6O8ZNtlvNSO51zhl186fIdfjJjb8hMlenJw6ZAUKdeiD6fj-4LWI9iyW2ycMaTI3no07eCefP-SoJi2JlwK3_m-ECl1nca9uGJvMyLRWtAT0FLUFWHnLI05J2lYIXPt_s/s200/bigbeacon.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="129" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjadfX3FotGF4PXmWjgF7h5CjWUtuu8WsiKECCl5mUXi5V2iq_MwsuZCLkh3k6O8ZNtlvNSO51zhl186fIdfjJjb8hMlenJw6ZAUKdeiD6fj-4LWI9iyW2ycMaTI3no07eCefP-SoJi2JlwK3_m-ECl1nca9uGJvMyLRWtAT0FLUFWHnLI05J2lYIXPt_s/s1600/bigbeacon.jpg" width="129" /></a></div>Alan Partridge with Neil Gibbons, Rob Gibbons and Steve Coogan, <i>Big Beacon</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2023 / Audiobook / 304 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*****</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With an innovative, experimental structure and supernatural leanings, Partridge soars to literary heights in what's either the second, third or fourth round of autobiography, it's a bit confusing and borderline incoherent at this point.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOXdOsVhPp5YtwtiiYzAqXRqotIG506HK-JK3MuUrShxetS-2pWanBPhX_ZrklQs79vDxgFxT-Y6duqd_rjqP-omaihSgz-rsPvGXPJbf0p022TNGLRqb0_sRnpGrPQDBvSXG7TOUHF3ILsqO3bW5SelRuudJxVvo1_bAkqQw5gJ4hvBH245C6Mlh1grU/s200/thelittlebluekite.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="173" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOXdOsVhPp5YtwtiiYzAqXRqotIG506HK-JK3MuUrShxetS-2pWanBPhX_ZrklQs79vDxgFxT-Y6duqd_rjqP-omaihSgz-rsPvGXPJbf0p022TNGLRqb0_sRnpGrPQDBvSXG7TOUHF3ILsqO3bW5SelRuudJxVvo1_bAkqQw5gJ4hvBH245C6Mlh1grU/s1600/thelittlebluekite.jpg" width="173" /></a></div>Mark Z. Danielewski and Regina M. Gonzales, <i>The Little Blue Kite</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2019 / Ebook / 96 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>***</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>The Little Prince</i> goes to art college. The artist gets a big credit on the last page, so it's totally fine that she's not credited on the cover and subsequently on websites, it's not as if the author set out to mislead probably.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><br /></div></div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKDQXxCK4LFlnSTUHIMdkbI23JUC3WOgVqQYiu7qnfcIajURhLXWrdqtvxrT9_F0FuHJXZBk_J7aJ2HZkqpXYYlQaHtDaFLgKXasRzCOmNKPhAWebTiXT13hQiRNDpxD0H8tvLkNcTT7e1zRV4afEadMw1dd-UB0I2YzopbBy6czhCWX0kMzxdUYsfANw/s200/TheSatanicChildrensBigBookofActivities.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="155" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKDQXxCK4LFlnSTUHIMdkbI23JUC3WOgVqQYiu7qnfcIajURhLXWrdqtvxrT9_F0FuHJXZBk_J7aJ2HZkqpXYYlQaHtDaFLgKXasRzCOmNKPhAWebTiXT13hQiRNDpxD0H8tvLkNcTT7e1zRV4afEadMw1dd-UB0I2YzopbBy6czhCWX0kMzxdUYsfANw/s1600/TheSatanicChildrensBigBookofActivities.jpg" width="155" /></a></div>Unknown, <i>The Satanic Children's Big Book of Activities</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2014 / Ebook / 10 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I've seen bigger, but maybe deceit is part of the credo.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Rhys Hughes, <i>Dabbler in Drabbles, Volume One: 100 Short Stories</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNTKV9ADkbOu-t6PaRgKzaambaTFJH0luoXQ5PjgVy-ZbGKndVSmfd7Qvc92akUX4fgAvsqZ7rKm4-RBD7Iz-RLJlG-3jbFyi95XsmH9aWqOsAYyoveBDQ-7qqwj-kAKSMQ0dmtu7Zu-yPg_hXCU3EHfhcDqzophVJPjYZ-hXQ-Fv8oB-ORzk3OQSOttA/s200/dabblerindrabbles1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="125" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNTKV9ADkbOu-t6PaRgKzaambaTFJH0luoXQ5PjgVy-ZbGKndVSmfd7Qvc92akUX4fgAvsqZ7rKm4-RBD7Iz-RLJlG-3jbFyi95XsmH9aWqOsAYyoveBDQ-7qqwj-kAKSMQ0dmtu7Zu-yPg_hXCU3EHfhcDqzophVJPjYZ-hXQ-Fv8oB-ORzk3OQSOttA/s1600/dabblerindrabbles1.jpg" width="125" /></a></div>2024 / Ebook / 114 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>***</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What to do with yourself after completing a decades-long 1,000-story cycle than commit to doing it again over the course of a year, albeit in miniature. As ever, these brief sketches are mainly based around variably terrible puns that he somehow – astonishingly – hadn't done yet.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><b>Faves:</b> 'Ghost Skeletons,' 'The Watering Can,' 'Ice Monster'</div><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div></div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8qYqPUkHSco8p5GURxZ1PLNMAteeRmWOR2_u3OUw9LsRVOwxJjRWyyIlA72xE6toqTdeDAKhuHHeMtEXJagw6ArgQVFyTUXlXRdrVlSlEV11Bx87Wi5RPZSNQ_VgF72VUEUZ4lqUiDMehpsblGl1yY0HcrSlp6IaYz0rKXRhBCSJYcldd6xB641eNs_Q/s200/asmallkilling.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="145" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8qYqPUkHSco8p5GURxZ1PLNMAteeRmWOR2_u3OUw9LsRVOwxJjRWyyIlA72xE6toqTdeDAKhuHHeMtEXJagw6ArgQVFyTUXlXRdrVlSlEV11Bx87Wi5RPZSNQ_VgF72VUEUZ4lqUiDMehpsblGl1yY0HcrSlp6IaYz0rKXRhBCSJYcldd6xB641eNs_Q/s1600/asmallkilling.jpg" width="145" /></a></div>Alan Moore and Oscar Zárate, <i>A Small Killing</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>1991 / Ebook / 96 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>****</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I'd read this before, but hadn't logged it for some reason, and that won't do. Still not sure what his point is, but it's a good story.</div><div><br /></div></div>Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17297907236641690965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475066931492824114.post-24829413441242149742024-02-12T00:00:00.003+00:002024-02-12T00:00:00.133+00:00Alrightreads: Romance<div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6XDW4Pur73RTZqD-4hK0MnYz6pQDpAFaFO_r04n3JA4V0C-lEQFW8uUTLrCGzCOtlH_MUEA4Nsfx8VJ5514z5U7Z8_ARcntF2m-lmNHHl13XjZmFZRcyTAOqHERYgBPHIYiDXUBDU59Q-_SE34BLDb-AgmELdz5S0zeOvNo1DslPHy7f92K8CroTAWCM/s200/schubertdiesch%C3%B6nem%C3%BCllerin.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="128" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6XDW4Pur73RTZqD-4hK0MnYz6pQDpAFaFO_r04n3JA4V0C-lEQFW8uUTLrCGzCOtlH_MUEA4Nsfx8VJ5514z5U7Z8_ARcntF2m-lmNHHl13XjZmFZRcyTAOqHERYgBPHIYiDXUBDU59Q-_SE34BLDb-AgmELdz5S0zeOvNo1DslPHy7f92K8CroTAWCM/s1600/schubertdiesch%C3%B6nem%C3%BCllerin.jpg" width="128" /></a></div>Susan Youens, <i>Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>1992 / Ebook / 129 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>****</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This deep analysis would be appreciated for any good concept album. It ends up more lit crit than music study, so is more on my level than most of these.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVM9M3pBhrxuYceP7mjHv1MvdthSAs45h5bJ3sXkdgAxZkta_qrcdf9Rrnyn89OdX0CC9E3YZW_0wMzipF3S2zlIaxczyhJyJIONe1EF7n2peJhPo0PnoIj-pAYi6iHIs__cJdxKZqSTv2_frxQ7yk2iipEko3fopMraY8gNmbTIK8oB2yqv8mKt-7a0g/s200/Happilyeverafter.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="159" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVM9M3pBhrxuYceP7mjHv1MvdthSAs45h5bJ3sXkdgAxZkta_qrcdf9Rrnyn89OdX0CC9E3YZW_0wMzipF3S2zlIaxczyhJyJIONe1EF7n2peJhPo0PnoIj-pAYi6iHIs__cJdxKZqSTv2_frxQ7yk2iipEko3fopMraY8gNmbTIK8oB2yqv8mKt-7a0g/s1600/Happilyeverafter.jpg" width="159" /></a></div>Charles Addams, <i>Happily Ever After: A Collection of Cartoons to Chill the Heart of Your Loved One</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>1937-? (collected 2006) / Ebook / 165 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>****</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A generous spread of morbid funnies and impenetrable enigmas.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj1pRPZ-QXst2Mzpz8J8h3uzFewbKwYVnwO-tcHZtY1E_OEC5r5nAM4B5FFYigv0UzdABOY1L3-0IU4d_ozkTdUBy4sPiSiyezck-csEcNAlA_PxsDLVovro710tRsTk8xUNfForSjc0wKiIPW5BjM63QJ0yIru1HuqaGvfqtyOEaGZAq6yswnIqoRzHE/s200/eyeswideshut.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="142" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj1pRPZ-QXst2Mzpz8J8h3uzFewbKwYVnwO-tcHZtY1E_OEC5r5nAM4B5FFYigv0UzdABOY1L3-0IU4d_ozkTdUBy4sPiSiyezck-csEcNAlA_PxsDLVovro710tRsTk8xUNfForSjc0wKiIPW5BjM63QJ0yIru1HuqaGvfqtyOEaGZAq6yswnIqoRzHE/s1600/eyeswideshut.jpg" width="142" /></a></div>Michel Chion, <i>Eyes Wide Shut</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2002 / Ebook / 96 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I remember liking this film, but this celebration of painstaking banality accidentally makes it sound like a load of shit.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdSEOCbmyzJqAVM2ciaPqRfelyCo1m8y533lSNRInrAsdrwYRrzbZeVIorctF1W9JmKvJOVvol2UYziProvK6ad58WiWO6eqvB1sa1EercZr7js-Q1wSg2WhbY1I5FpBLOdrbe7F_W9gaMrFaBnKut78gtsgTwWkPvQ4f4dQkEd7eNTmis0V1_xyc6RwU/s200/themonk.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="119" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdSEOCbmyzJqAVM2ciaPqRfelyCo1m8y533lSNRInrAsdrwYRrzbZeVIorctF1W9JmKvJOVvol2UYziProvK6ad58WiWO6eqvB1sa1EercZr7js-Q1wSg2WhbY1I5FpBLOdrbe7F_W9gaMrFaBnKut78gtsgTwWkPvQ4f4dQkEd7eNTmis0V1_xyc6RwU/s1600/themonk.jpg" width="119" /></a></div>Matthew Gregory Lewis, <i>The Monk: A Romance</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>1796 / Audiobook / 431 pages</div><div><br /></div></div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>****</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Always go to the source. Deserving of a cobwebbed throne in the Gothic pantheon, though less inviting to return visits than most.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2dJ2iTOTmy-Evp1ugAKI9rjS_W2K23u_BcJcMA0xSxC82SGCJFYZrLblIM-d5RTJIGG1Xe-_ayEQE-OKmKuYlslIrpqA0XAbXDDxuiKbKG7ocA7bEedGK8tkiW96kmRKrbMdXK2lfhua-p_duwsAKq50tpHba74sLZ-zP17Run5Z8crsGmrmk5J4XE4k/s200/poeticalsketches.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="121" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2dJ2iTOTmy-Evp1ugAKI9rjS_W2K23u_BcJcMA0xSxC82SGCJFYZrLblIM-d5RTJIGG1Xe-_ayEQE-OKmKuYlslIrpqA0XAbXDDxuiKbKG7ocA7bEedGK8tkiW96kmRKrbMdXK2lfhua-p_duwsAKq50tpHba74sLZ-zP17Run5Z8crsGmrmk5J4XE4k/s1600/poeticalsketches.jpg" width="121" /></a></div>William Blake, <i>Poetical Sketches</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>1769-77 (collected 1783) / Ebook / 72 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>***</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This aptly-titled private chapbook is more juvenilia scrapbook than promising demo, but I liked the darker ones.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Faves:</b> 'To Winter,' 'Fair Eleanor,' 'Mad Song'</div><div><br /></div></div>Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17297907236641690965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475066931492824114.post-42822000564771952782024-02-09T00:00:00.037+00:002024-02-09T00:00:00.149+00:00Babyliography CLXI<div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIYJCHJi9OX6XvMIIyRfwMd9tOjOG3iE54qLYemNbpkf6MEKUjJFB6vrGWIgVYDjFTn37QAFgCq-UI0ZXEa4WmgXq3sx4APpZ726oJY3a-o7MxT93hau9AjBMfM_dz2grSassDVe924a4gTB9nDOJE4N54kqaxgcpYRtKQtX3arYfS3B2uIjzybwNdUmk/s200/MyLittlePonyApplejackandtheSecretDiary.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="129" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIYJCHJi9OX6XvMIIyRfwMd9tOjOG3iE54qLYemNbpkf6MEKUjJFB6vrGWIgVYDjFTn37QAFgCq-UI0ZXEa4WmgXq3sx4APpZ726oJY3a-o7MxT93hau9AjBMfM_dz2grSassDVe924a4gTB9nDOJE4N54kqaxgcpYRtKQtX3arYfS3B2uIjzybwNdUmk/s1600/MyLittlePonyApplejackandtheSecretDiary.jpg" width="129" /></a></div>G. M. Berrow, <i>My Little Pony: Applejack and the Secret Diary</i></span></div></div><div><br /></div><div>2020 / Library book / 160 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She insisted on trying a Bigger Children Book, but we only made it a few chapters in. It's nice to know there are some original stories and not only adaptations out there.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVtdi1q1sKFPDvLViy8i2y_-k86y8KBkWhoDyJJwaeW7JIoHULISgYNZnTdXLpjpOzELcisPC3Wnnq52VHXmO0E1FdqE26jMiPAFOgqaIIfeoVg-251cIiNtzWEiJjJPQRQJ2F6SCPGbKsg7xmMgIagy-nGT45mygDoDNo_82p90IlVMb-57_hwmkiW7k/s200/MyMagicalForest.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVtdi1q1sKFPDvLViy8i2y_-k86y8KBkWhoDyJJwaeW7JIoHULISgYNZnTdXLpjpOzELcisPC3Wnnq52VHXmO0E1FdqE26jMiPAFOgqaIIfeoVg-251cIiNtzWEiJjJPQRQJ2F6SCPGbKsg7xmMgIagy-nGT45mygDoDNo_82p90IlVMb-57_hwmkiW7k/s1600/MyMagicalForest.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Yujin Shin, <i>My Magical Forest</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2021 / Library book / 10 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div>A unicorn sequel by any other name.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0KwXpTHO0w0PNsxeCohsJe0ftyeCZ6Ls2vquOF3ADI7ACtSfaUbXNuSWudorpJyEZXvZdbrihhgq0AH09YmgUNcUk_YiUAM3OaJZKzZBMw_FLLtEYwzF0LHNVL9eF431XBtN4wMXxmDrxh7isarhchcM3oy-W-vhyxRuz-GTujND2EpFG5WlyQGdWQE4/s215/imaunicorn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="215" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0KwXpTHO0w0PNsxeCohsJe0ftyeCZ6Ls2vquOF3ADI7ACtSfaUbXNuSWudorpJyEZXvZdbrihhgq0AH09YmgUNcUk_YiUAM3OaJZKzZBMw_FLLtEYwzF0LHNVL9eF431XBtN4wMXxmDrxh7isarhchcM3oy-W-vhyxRuz-GTujND2EpFG5WlyQGdWQE4/s1600/imaunicorn.jpg" width="215" /></a></div>Helen Yoon, <i>I'm a Unicorn</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2022 / Ebook/audiobook / 32 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>***</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A different take, and a nice message, with a proper unicorn cameo to avoid complaints.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTOwGbyP5-_BeTUmFAKMkCG74qUTgzM66LFK-hui7aesjcsm1xOpFNpHI4xWLuy9FJvOfDFsV8356nqEHsPJcRKAsSLcEDhYOD3r4DSEtAGUgJqkPwgvOlJLVXgrF55ty0PRvOpZoTJslIG5HY-RZVsk6MJYJGqo-W1YuIKRuwgjetpsaljtCybtjVKMA/s200/unicornclub.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="176" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTOwGbyP5-_BeTUmFAKMkCG74qUTgzM66LFK-hui7aesjcsm1xOpFNpHI4xWLuy9FJvOfDFsV8356nqEHsPJcRKAsSLcEDhYOD3r4DSEtAGUgJqkPwgvOlJLVXgrF55ty0PRvOpZoTJslIG5HY-RZVsk6MJYJGqo-W1YuIKRuwgjetpsaljtCybtjVKMA/s1600/unicornclub.jpg" width="176" /></a></div>Suzy Senior and Leire Martin, <i>Unicorn Club</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2019 / Ebook/audiobook / 28 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The kid has a cool name.</div><div><br /></div>Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17297907236641690965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475066931492824114.post-19318319157226030782024-02-06T00:00:00.083+00:002024-02-06T00:00:00.141+00:00Babyliography CLX<span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPg74aqYRIvYzN0MME8yXZMhZ1-jV9FUI8IBG1leMdOu8CXKHLVyy863qZmyi-scSCOv_VXQKYf6hoLvTHRlpsNLvMn6rVohM4g20KXk_FDOL48vBPwhE0ci6O5ITjb3Ne4eVXDRlsnRcgWbHM54y2ALQ5RGXUb6Aoj0B2CRja4upagUl_pDul0JDPh-o/s202/IDontKnowWhattoCallMyCat.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="202" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPg74aqYRIvYzN0MME8yXZMhZ1-jV9FUI8IBG1leMdOu8CXKHLVyy863qZmyi-scSCOv_VXQKYf6hoLvTHRlpsNLvMn6rVohM4g20KXk_FDOL48vBPwhE0ci6O5ITjb3Ne4eVXDRlsnRcgWbHM54y2ALQ5RGXUb6Aoj0B2CRja4upagUl_pDul0JDPh-o/s1600/IDontKnowWhattoCallMyCat.jpg" width="202" /></a></div>Simon Philip and Ella Bailey, <i>I Don't Know What to Call My Cat</i></span><div><br /></div><div>2017 / Library book / 32 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Not much of a point or throughline, but maybe you like cats.</div><div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTuYgK0FUBf0Z1mUzEdWH3ArzeAzDmbYRD5i3lEKhXj0xyye-3ECoWN6RCwu3K01W_DiYcPREsTDbtgu-rz1wgbXHQssIalEZ3ypmWoZQYOeBUmNqnaiK34472HC3jLnloKSe6xwFmMRd4pweFmRGgQdg3-xjzWA9C16dN7RrM7MVIEnzCWGkFj6YsyFw/s200/HappySad.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTuYgK0FUBf0Z1mUzEdWH3ArzeAzDmbYRD5i3lEKhXj0xyye-3ECoWN6RCwu3K01W_DiYcPREsTDbtgu-rz1wgbXHQssIalEZ3ypmWoZQYOeBUmNqnaiK34472HC3jLnloKSe6xwFmMRd4pweFmRGgQdg3-xjzWA9C16dN7RrM7MVIEnzCWGkFj6YsyFw/s1600/HappySad.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Pippa Goodhart and Augusta Kirkwood, <i>Happy Sad</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2022 / Library book / 24 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A thoughtful feelings story, shame it has to make up words.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX2Iew093t5nkBZadncmnLIDxBkzwgTb5OsfZrQQbKFvDD3AgUTyBT0att5te4kSfXknwMyKIHusbPH252Bc1o3I2HZWWi16h9oLE1XAGut0Ey7s_vBQ_2chCSRs7SSm6dDx5RO9BfObWXvAx4HzoTc-SYMgDmRg5rEPE9TZntohgSN6kQjFWL7xZ80eo/s200/megschristmas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX2Iew093t5nkBZadncmnLIDxBkzwgTb5OsfZrQQbKFvDD3AgUTyBT0att5te4kSfXknwMyKIHusbPH252Bc1o3I2HZWWi16h9oLE1XAGut0Ey7s_vBQ_2chCSRs7SSm6dDx5RO9BfObWXvAx4HzoTc-SYMgDmRg5rEPE9TZntohgSN6kQjFWL7xZ80eo/s1600/megschristmas.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>David Walser and Jan Pieńkowski, <i>Meg's Christmas</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2018 / Paperback / 32 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Not noticeably worse than the originals, apart from forgetting how to draw Owl's beak on occasion.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVh2vVg9aR42Y0sE7jNDaq4AAgr3hrccOPTRwfBpnoXLssZUPaUJ_OtHjPxKW6LPrCxGFdZgf6ALTFKis2DwDdl9UdNMykuEdcVaKhmZgoftTE371LzR7cdQKXQs1QyKKy1zKXdxK03bTKlXz75pfRyTkfSRJcrgU5UpMNGavfx_hAVcRyCLloa-eFr5k/s200/snow.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVh2vVg9aR42Y0sE7jNDaq4AAgr3hrccOPTRwfBpnoXLssZUPaUJ_OtHjPxKW6LPrCxGFdZgf6ALTFKis2DwDdl9UdNMykuEdcVaKhmZgoftTE371LzR7cdQKXQs1QyKKy1zKXdxK03bTKlXz75pfRyTkfSRJcrgU5UpMNGavfx_hAVcRyCLloa-eFr5k/s1600/snow.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Walter de la Mare and Carolina Rabei, <i>Snow</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2014 / Library book / 32 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Mismatched poetry and Christmas clipart.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHlG_L1b9rkX2yUDKP1BIEDJzRBkQ6CO3iRA1rmjdwwVyXyy5klNeyMlUU_65vqRgvJQC8mcUFhJOcA8_AB_ImAY6-JirERmNJ-gsovF1dd4bh0DKNomkGM3nIgWURtA1bm7jaTa2fmz-HFrA6UprX_WXBAyH6SM5e_Iv9a_ZLjeSJcVCP6PioUvQVg0M/s200/iturnedmymomintoaunicorn.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="197" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHlG_L1b9rkX2yUDKP1BIEDJzRBkQ6CO3iRA1rmjdwwVyXyy5klNeyMlUU_65vqRgvJQC8mcUFhJOcA8_AB_ImAY6-JirERmNJ-gsovF1dd4bh0DKNomkGM3nIgWURtA1bm7jaTa2fmz-HFrA6UprX_WXBAyH6SM5e_Iv9a_ZLjeSJcVCP6PioUvQVg0M/s1600/iturnedmymomintoaunicorn.jpg" width="197" /></a></div>Brenda Li, <i>I Turned My Mom into a Unicorn</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2019 / Ebook/audiobook / 36 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>***</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div>The predictable consequences of metamorphosis.</div><div><br /></div></div>Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17297907236641690965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475066931492824114.post-68271149481817666722024-02-03T00:00:00.000+00:002024-02-03T00:00:00.155+00:00Horrifying thing I drew when I was six<p>A while ago, I showed my four-year-old some of the surviving notebooks from my childhood, for something to do and to buck her ideas up. There was one image in particular that stuck in her mind and would be brought up out of the blue months later, usually when getting ready for bed. This one:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikpiXxTQMAl6ugzZGRWIPh0fLpWqBUGxWUDIbCZHOXia9Cu2SVr7ozLZKntTMHuzC0BLUIh0zRPwIPhihpMnZ8HBMMm2j3O4zCXjaRo_8M_BrYDNzjdmAIkwFsunx3tiw1DQxB5d6IRLylo5h1l_-FqDMPP-JN1L_8fy1hyphenhyphenARGf-Te1eTYyw-1nuqv_iA/s1024/purple-thingamebob.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="795" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikpiXxTQMAl6ugzZGRWIPh0fLpWqBUGxWUDIbCZHOXia9Cu2SVr7ozLZKntTMHuzC0BLUIh0zRPwIPhihpMnZ8HBMMm2j3O4zCXjaRo_8M_BrYDNzjdmAIkwFsunx3tiw1DQxB5d6IRLylo5h1l_-FqDMPP-JN1L_8fy1hyphenhyphenARGf-Te1eTYyw-1nuqv_iA/w496-h640/purple-thingamebob.jpeg" width="496" /></a></div><p>I remember drawing that (my dad had taken me to visit the farm, bright and early, but for some reason I'd stubbornly insisted on staying in the car while he worked for however long, so I had to entertain myself by drawing, it turns out, terrifying nightmare fuel), but I can't remember where the idea came from. It seems too messed up for a six-year-old to invent, but he has been raised on the likes of <i>Knightmare</i> and <i>Beetlejuice</i>, so I wouldn't put it past him.</p><p>On a lighter note, your child asking to colour in the "Doctor Disguise Colouring-Book!" you made in 1992 is a strange, new emotion, but a nice one.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZY2H8Pzrlu9jrUOe3d_uk2q_m3dvAUgukC_FV6qTOiDiftl8wReF_61hmgmNP7hAWCum4KKdGY1zfHPJjS4ixUg8DOs9SXEI8zWgSP4JChFRwhWp6yBJnwmUl0JcR3BO2E6osyg4MnUMcmL8M0S68-O-jbST0sf15QbAjUVabDYoIB0RmSsMqiuJbVmo/s1024/doctor-disguise-colouring-book-1992-2024.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZY2H8Pzrlu9jrUOe3d_uk2q_m3dvAUgukC_FV6qTOiDiftl8wReF_61hmgmNP7hAWCum4KKdGY1zfHPJjS4ixUg8DOs9SXEI8zWgSP4JChFRwhWp6yBJnwmUl0JcR3BO2E6osyg4MnUMcmL8M0S68-O-jbST0sf15QbAjUVabDYoIB0RmSsMqiuJbVmo/w300-h400/doctor-disguise-colouring-book-1992-2024.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div>Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17297907236641690965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475066931492824114.post-90436662983529844282024-01-31T00:00:00.000+00:002024-01-31T00:00:00.163+00:00Alrightreads: Elevenses<div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiQ4nGktvcmNK6yBzKT1yqE4jk5bk3zhhlsrzaYhxHWgKqPSvv8GKCf3SoI1IAocGn1glm4jcRm-Y0rL089s_1YRvQ1FCWMezqFNiugVBBi7bamxe7qYiuZsDIOiDuEHjQ5NX87k21VzvWoSIJmoX18YaTn9gsVWKWoXJwgd74JwdYPh1YpZePkjK87EI/s200/DoctorWhoApollo23.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="127" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiQ4nGktvcmNK6yBzKT1yqE4jk5bk3zhhlsrzaYhxHWgKqPSvv8GKCf3SoI1IAocGn1glm4jcRm-Y0rL089s_1YRvQ1FCWMezqFNiugVBBi7bamxe7qYiuZsDIOiDuEHjQ5NX87k21VzvWoSIJmoX18YaTn9gsVWKWoXJwgd74JwdYPh1YpZePkjK87EI/s1600/DoctorWhoApollo23.jpg" width="127" /></a></div>Justin Richards, <i>Doctor Who: Apollo 23</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2010 / Audiobook / 248 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>***</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Good moralising sci-fi, some prescient imagery and convincing characterisation, especially considering its prematurity. It does drag out, which is probably going to be an ongoing issue. We were around the same age back then, but now they look about fifteen.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkgkgsDWHxI9OH3ywVhhlPMK7Nao2jSXI4J0ezoCmJckXGRFvXIueTQOQHvd1YEnww1dvZza3bFpXDFZUkT3g_6lLsc0-xWxt1wkusKYVscweXo5brMJSXJJf564AXRxJ5dkflQRyY-qlg2dWQM3fkMzvBwo8EPGIoU-k3YJ4Wf7b1oRy-mV4KzVhq08k/s200/DoctorWhoNightoftheHumans.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="126" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkgkgsDWHxI9OH3ywVhhlPMK7Nao2jSXI4J0ezoCmJckXGRFvXIueTQOQHvd1YEnww1dvZza3bFpXDFZUkT3g_6lLsc0-xWxt1wkusKYVscweXo5brMJSXJJf564AXRxJ5dkflQRyY-qlg2dWQM3fkMzvBwo8EPGIoU-k3YJ4Wf7b1oRy-mV4KzVhq08k/s1600/DoctorWhoNightoftheHumans.jpg" width="126" /></a></div>David Llewellyn, <i>Doctor Who: Night of the Humans</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2010 / Audiobook / 246 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>****</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A comfortingly familiar sci-fi scrapheap provides some inter-episode levelling up for Amy.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpyIeOSArVx8CQZknJY50IkUa5nlEaWg6YyUec0zL00u3JhtnaUeCxVo4Tk4iiVqHfV_zZ1rc6cg2VVIkmXOyhI1DfB03L0gu-KbqU0WlIhav4TWBKiG1yXpArSCK3Ol0AwTG9jraZHRs1iav2VF0oTyzuXkwOrLOIn3eKTUWN2NfZg-J5Z0q81J6E7PQ/s200/DoctorWhoTheForgottenArmy.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="127" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpyIeOSArVx8CQZknJY50IkUa5nlEaWg6YyUec0zL00u3JhtnaUeCxVo4Tk4iiVqHfV_zZ1rc6cg2VVIkmXOyhI1DfB03L0gu-KbqU0WlIhav4TWBKiG1yXpArSCK3Ol0AwTG9jraZHRs1iav2VF0oTyzuXkwOrLOIn3eKTUWN2NfZg-J5Z0q81J6E7PQ/s1600/DoctorWhoTheForgottenArmy.jpg" width="127" /></a></div>Brian Minchin, <i>Doctor Who: The Forgotten Army</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2010 / Audiobook / 248 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Frivolous, sizeist filler.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg54FC6-ovmE5xg4TwaHYnTC3647_8BDYnriEZGvt6KOP1oBJdUR1WOyAAt364AvHnn_1XnNkVBZgl2ftFy7ybbpP6dS5F9HE3rKapJwsvrGVnAsdmkPe87yPTfwMhMpr0exXyNmmuUyxMdE1mR4-HfRio1uIkWdcFXxBsBjs5DCVq7INIDxQnFama2KEg/s200/DoctorWhoNuclearTime.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="127" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg54FC6-ovmE5xg4TwaHYnTC3647_8BDYnriEZGvt6KOP1oBJdUR1WOyAAt364AvHnn_1XnNkVBZgl2ftFy7ybbpP6dS5F9HE3rKapJwsvrGVnAsdmkPe87yPTfwMhMpr0exXyNmmuUyxMdE1mR4-HfRio1uIkWdcFXxBsBjs5DCVq7INIDxQnFama2KEg/s1600/DoctorWhoNuclearTime.jpg" width="127" /></a></div>Oli Smith, <i>Doctor Who: Nuclear Time</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2010 / Audiobook / 243 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>***</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Backwards shenanigans spice up otherwise forgettable peril. Rory shows up, though more sarcastic than I remember.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgExWIkOrJU1ftdfr2dlMDinE-XSCkYSvl8Tmd9bI_NvsRMlBlVfCvAFejg5DdQA0o7-Iu7jSfDihihPTYkvaDY7OIU1RzrQlw9JmxE63Z8IOJp_wfWiZdR-TXG2_mmFiabdciUVOTVKbCsjdHy5ZAWfQM3pdzsKWGplqWtOMMOFnSIRUG5i72erD1lA3Q/s200/doctorwhotheeleventhhour.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="129" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgExWIkOrJU1ftdfr2dlMDinE-XSCkYSvl8Tmd9bI_NvsRMlBlVfCvAFejg5DdQA0o7-Iu7jSfDihihPTYkvaDY7OIU1RzrQlw9JmxE63Z8IOJp_wfWiZdR-TXG2_mmFiabdciUVOTVKbCsjdHy5ZAWfQM3pdzsKWGplqWtOMMOFnSIRUG5i72erD1lA3Q/s1600/doctorwhotheeleventhhour.jpg" width="129" /></a></div>Various, <i>Doctor Who: The Eleventh Hour – A Critical Celebration of the Matt Smith and Steven Moffat Era</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2013 / Ebook / 296 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Opinionated episode guides are more my level than academic essays, but it was a worthy effort all the same, even if avoidable anniversary publishing haste left it forever incomplete.</div><div><br /></div></div>Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17297907236641690965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475066931492824114.post-72202112991394991002024-01-29T00:00:00.000+00:002024-01-29T00:00:00.157+00:00Alrightgames: Dizzy Dizzy Dinosaur<p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Dizzy Dizzy Dinosaur</i></span></p><p>1987 / Board game / 2-4 players</p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>****</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTPT0lX5u_xyt0TOnnl-zz2qTRZwqE0MhyphenhyphenkTVRPdM2xtyVA6rWQauGKtJMUZFgVE1bWE0QyenhRQihHnM0wYhvSiLT_whSb7sdQY7_4T2pJQK9VZavOZDxSFUILSURJIZGb_Clbsyq2ZoDWnmq6fuBPK6Kr-aZY3RPpiD_cfSKNtE4h4B91y6pp-roVt4/s588/dizzydizzydinosaur.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="588" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTPT0lX5u_xyt0TOnnl-zz2qTRZwqE0MhyphenhyphenkTVRPdM2xtyVA6rWQauGKtJMUZFgVE1bWE0QyenhRQihHnM0wYhvSiLT_whSb7sdQY7_4T2pJQK9VZavOZDxSFUILSURJIZGb_Clbsyq2ZoDWnmq6fuBPK6Kr-aZY3RPpiD_cfSKNtE4h4B91y6pp-roVt4/s16000/dizzydizzydinosaur.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>I have warm Christmas nostagia around this one that will hopefully be passed– What? No, they don't make a unicorn one.</p>Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17297907236641690965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475066931492824114.post-35939890250997798442024-01-27T00:00:00.000+00:002024-01-27T00:00:00.145+00:00Alrightgames: Rainbow Unicorns<p><span style="font-size: large;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkMSBIsXzjFIClOPcS_PoVYGENKonGnH9lUha3IRnkSOXR4-g5lEjA-phcAcpauSVGoQMB-4tXGobY5XZyHXwx-yEVEB3fr0MMlD-gYHVDqL6J6AfBe392QhRZOolwdJKWx_XQ7n1fhtT6XqPWQMKa3YQY_MSpYCEDF5J8QpSBPw9s8z4t3gy2Y2KD6zU/s404/rainbowunicorns.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkMSBIsXzjFIClOPcS_PoVYGENKonGnH9lUha3IRnkSOXR4-g5lEjA-phcAcpauSVGoQMB-4tXGobY5XZyHXwx-yEVEB3fr0MMlD-gYHVDqL6J6AfBe392QhRZOolwdJKWx_XQ7n1fhtT6XqPWQMKa3YQY_MSpYCEDF5J8QpSBPw9s8z4t3gy2Y2KD6zU/s16000/rainbowunicorns.jpg" /></a></i></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Rainbow Unicorns</i></span><p></p><p>2019 / Matching game / 2-4 players</p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>***</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">A little more playable than most Orchard games, even if its appeal to the target player lies squarely in the theme.</p>Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17297907236641690965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475066931492824114.post-79788453399449620082024-01-25T00:00:00.025+00:002024-01-25T00:00:00.133+00:00Alrightgames: The Legend of Zelda – The Minish Cap<p><span style="font-size: large;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO7IY9UIlV84JBQXUL68Irp8nURV-6i6ZBGC1J4X2lfGidXIQhddBSfEcnBgc1osSXWP4L1Frv668OPDB8GA6lt_ZJaUvU9k3SF20e8MS2KQ0Nvt4B9vNCr-Tpb5Heee8TuANxjkjq1mNk4EKkALBvTNVSjT-e8IUztVhGwIE6AbndNUmo-UfjBm36uS8/s300/thelegendofzeldatheminishcap.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="299" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO7IY9UIlV84JBQXUL68Irp8nURV-6i6ZBGC1J4X2lfGidXIQhddBSfEcnBgc1osSXWP4L1Frv668OPDB8GA6lt_ZJaUvU9k3SF20e8MS2KQ0Nvt4B9vNCr-Tpb5Heee8TuANxjkjq1mNk4EKkALBvTNVSjT-e8IUztVhGwIE6AbndNUmo-UfjBm36uS8/s1600/thelegendofzeldatheminishcap.jpg" width="299" /></a></i></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><i>The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap</i></span><p></p><p>2004 / Game Boy Advance emulator game / 1 player</p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>***</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I'd never played a <i>Zelda</i> game before. They seem okay as a junior RPG, but we both got bored around the same time, on our respective sides of the RPG demographic. Give us simple platformers.</p>Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17297907236641690965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475066931492824114.post-24389590766562805472024-01-23T00:00:00.000+00:002024-01-23T00:00:00.136+00:00Alrightgames: Flying Unicorn Simulator 2021<p><span style="font-size: large;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWwMhcCQ1AQeBkg5-bI2HqFdYnf9oefUGSrMo4IV-ICSmbGj6krVgj4AvMUGLO2Ew3yZUuhBnnPRjDOzuMQdpi1ZwUeyb2I9Y0etNpV0FsDuZ8ub30Wl8_Qn0ND8HIN4Z1RuIYb7WSnNnftBwjgs58BIb4XsCtrcK7fuvmBw5opNL2CcJC7NSHxt354nQ/s300/flyingunicornsimulator2021.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWwMhcCQ1AQeBkg5-bI2HqFdYnf9oefUGSrMo4IV-ICSmbGj6krVgj4AvMUGLO2Ew3yZUuhBnnPRjDOzuMQdpi1ZwUeyb2I9Y0etNpV0FsDuZ8ub30Wl8_Qn0ND8HIN4Z1RuIYb7WSnNnftBwjgs58BIb4XsCtrcK7fuvmBw5opNL2CcJC7NSHxt354nQ/s1600/flyingunicornsimulator2021.png" width="300" /></a></i></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Flying Unicorn Simulator 2021</i></span><p></p><p>2021 / iPad game / 1 player</p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>***</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Make your child's dreams a glitchy reality and stingily deny them premium characters because you don't know how to pirate iOS apps.</p>Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17297907236641690965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475066931492824114.post-12805974399772870022024-01-21T00:00:00.114+00:002024-01-21T00:00:00.149+00:00Babyliography CLIX<div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmETMZtisbpDFqZ9KUvx3SRP1HeD_AnP2jXj8PN5oKx9IKjihCHmHR5I30NopwWfsfH6OMqMMMsmSXC5qXrL5DFgEIWPZreIM_8-mIlXh4M7adrFRObNNLviO_lWfQn4nG5Eh6PH8gQ3nYrf-ZFZ3NJmZryVstaPNfdIjOh4HXnXYpQ0hjUz4L-juLuqw/s200/thepigeonfindsahotdog.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmETMZtisbpDFqZ9KUvx3SRP1HeD_AnP2jXj8PN5oKx9IKjihCHmHR5I30NopwWfsfH6OMqMMMsmSXC5qXrL5DFgEIWPZreIM_8-mIlXh4M7adrFRObNNLviO_lWfQn4nG5Eh6PH8gQ3nYrf-ZFZ3NJmZryVstaPNfdIjOh4HXnXYpQ0hjUz4L-juLuqw/s1600/thepigeonfindsahotdog.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Mo Willems, <i>The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! / Loves Things That Go! / Has Feelings, Too! / Wants a Puppy! / Needs a Bath / Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late! / The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2004-14 / Ebooks</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>***</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The cookie one's her new fave, or tied with the school one that she borrows from the library every time she sees it.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcWLy17mFsy_9By4vWzq_hX5ZufebWeelml_EZLxzS7aip8g3LUuVwwUPhE1CE0Y2A2Do5MEZZvMsXL105gxAQTBzpecbiQn-pH5FqLEXGBaxE1pCP3iY-g8iGn1qPm7UkydbQQQL_K1y1dZdwUWC2FtjzeHSwlXRkZ6i_eE1J0wQj3L2EktZEs2NYFuE/s200/anothermonsterattheendofthisbook.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="147" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcWLy17mFsy_9By4vWzq_hX5ZufebWeelml_EZLxzS7aip8g3LUuVwwUPhE1CE0Y2A2Do5MEZZvMsXL105gxAQTBzpecbiQn-pH5FqLEXGBaxE1pCP3iY-g8iGn1qPm7UkydbQQQL_K1y1dZdwUWC2FtjzeHSwlXRkZ6i_eE1J0wQj3L2EktZEs2NYFuE/s1600/anothermonsterattheendofthisbook.jpg" width="147" /></a></div>Jon Stone and Michael Smollin, <i>Another Monster at the End of This Book</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>1996 / Ebook / 24 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She loves the original, but was correctly unimpressed by this pointless by-the-numbers sequel.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBKjqEAOsoIfbN0yB8s6yVwVYZtHJreB4xOuxQIX5NkDkHUrfWH8aAOuY6870w8MHsBIcU0XuFLcHAvlZV4p-pmETBSz3xYyfOWVDnv_blrH0ekYp94RtrJUkQo3VunKAcC-H7LjBEo_Q/s200/in-a-dark-dark-room.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="134" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBKjqEAOsoIfbN0yB8s6yVwVYZtHJreB4xOuxQIX5NkDkHUrfWH8aAOuY6870w8MHsBIcU0XuFLcHAvlZV4p-pmETBSz3xYyfOWVDnv_blrH0ekYp94RtrJUkQo3VunKAcC-H7LjBEo_Q/s1600/in-a-dark-dark-room.jpg" width="134" /></a></div>Alvin Schwartz and Dirk Zimmer, <i>In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>1984 / Ebook / 64 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>****</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div>I skipped some of the more genuinely creepy ones for now, but she was a fan of the legendary-round-these-parts 'The Green Ribbon,' wanting to play her own horrific, sweet and random variations until she ran out of colours.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlaUsAwFBH4FEkNEo5uS0Fv5UoDvi9fXHE7fOWNqh_k-altugByu5bQ0hE4YCo-reQH0dHejZVD1ladDQkKJ4hdpEjqJOGLhF1MpqWjHqjWaelcneAecV1UYdPwSYlC33cOUqlvMrQbZTOzYoKDCGaDX7KwEg0CuQjIIC2Q0P45GCnanag5xFaZHK6tVw/s200/theunicornprincess.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlaUsAwFBH4FEkNEo5uS0Fv5UoDvi9fXHE7fOWNqh_k-altugByu5bQ0hE4YCo-reQH0dHejZVD1ladDQkKJ4hdpEjqJOGLhF1MpqWjHqjWaelcneAecV1UYdPwSYlC33cOUqlvMrQbZTOzYoKDCGaDX7KwEg0CuQjIIC2Q0P45GCnanag5xFaZHK6tVw/s1600/theunicornprincess.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Alyssa Schermel and Marina Saumell, <i>The Unicorn Princess</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2020 / Ebook/audiobook / 39 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Own-brand 1980s <i>My Little Pony</i>. She found the witches a bit scary.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA6MNcpm94MjCYhbEKS7c70qB1O8EtigljaItBxrOaRPtwNr7OJomyb_S6sh6GLIYBDNvfUDtOlJBgxePRpr2T9hyWjfYzEaLGeOsylklbJ-kYdxB6i_W-Hb0rJQws6TzoFvLeEfOTmhSX6GAKbIryAxScV5RnXAfT0kxvx6yb6DCWMGFxJfMR9w-C3Gk/s200/whatsinsideme.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="171" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA6MNcpm94MjCYhbEKS7c70qB1O8EtigljaItBxrOaRPtwNr7OJomyb_S6sh6GLIYBDNvfUDtOlJBgxePRpr2T9hyWjfYzEaLGeOsylklbJ-kYdxB6i_W-Hb0rJQws6TzoFvLeEfOTmhSX6GAKbIryAxScV5RnXAfT0kxvx6yb6DCWMGFxJfMR9w-C3Gk/s1600/whatsinsideme.jpg" width="171" /></a></div>Katie Daynes and Marta Alvarez Miguens, <i>Usborne Lift-the-Flap Very First Questions and Answers: What's Inside Me?</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2022 / Library book / 12 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>***</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She really wanted a gorier one from the big kid section, but was placated by flaps. Education wise, giving the guts faces wasn't particularly helpful.</div><div><br /></div>Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17297907236641690965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475066931492824114.post-33681426927841589522024-01-19T00:00:00.094+00:002024-01-20T03:59:09.709+00:00Babyliography CLVIII<span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFbSJm8uqsi8VXJhyphenhyphenrZQo_X99VLo6nqcA2rmlhO-aKjWw-rnXjjGQeA0QemFNWa9XukAqF9fpIWl1wmAmex-Hi8w75lYdrK9hILMnIY8Doe2d_HinjW6fxI-q9EvOkb6e3BC6_PTSnqpDUHjVJf_KntrHG14B8XMzmzc38OnDsubSHFQvK6lfsz9FV6nw/s200/mymagicalunicorn.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="163" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFbSJm8uqsi8VXJhyphenhyphenrZQo_X99VLo6nqcA2rmlhO-aKjWw-rnXjjGQeA0QemFNWa9XukAqF9fpIWl1wmAmex-Hi8w75lYdrK9hILMnIY8Doe2d_HinjW6fxI-q9EvOkb6e3BC6_PTSnqpDUHjVJf_KntrHG14B8XMzmzc38OnDsubSHFQvK6lfsz9FV6nw/s1600/mymagicalunicorn.jpg" width="163" /></a></div>Unknown, <i>My Magical Unicorn: An enchanted fill-in journal</i></span><div><br /></div><div>2018 / Paperback / 96 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">The unicorn angle is briefly relevant.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlChBrDPQLT11dRlcrmD1Qr0_hvoz13MeH_1kQGFIODleWZpAUpOuFubiyglhFrQO2eu8imtil3GerPG4vpY7NnAufmFPlLpO6QdYGvDZL0x38Gzb163WT1K3fg62RIf7diRTZo6dEtegAVbmQ_vL3LPeLvwBnCdCm1N4UjwsK5rXCPRnKhiswQZAbFP4/s200/mylittlepony5minutestories.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="147" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlChBrDPQLT11dRlcrmD1Qr0_hvoz13MeH_1kQGFIODleWZpAUpOuFubiyglhFrQO2eu8imtil3GerPG4vpY7NnAufmFPlLpO6QdYGvDZL0x38Gzb163WT1K3fg62RIf7diRTZo6dEtegAVbmQ_vL3LPeLvwBnCdCm1N4UjwsK5rXCPRnKhiswQZAbFP4/s1600/mylittlepony5minutestories.jpg" width="147" /></a></div>Unknown, <i>My Little Pony: 5-Minute Stories</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2017 / Hardback / 176 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>***</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A nice gimmick and double length excuses adapting some of the same episodes again.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVYCOYtIs-Jo-cjw7_NTzlMq5m93em7oC9e8oFmg1MNqtrt_490Neao0-zTrIe_SigTCHwRryliAw_bXJmIbN4-6S9NEttj-wekenzlt_V1caRZSmgrdPMYJOvdlsIT7LdoOjPY16fBmLBFQgQFXXpwJ6WlX-9F-YEXZLAV_USnQVxlM8rI5flUM0Zj0E/s200/mylittleponybestfilliesforever.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="133" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVYCOYtIs-Jo-cjw7_NTzlMq5m93em7oC9e8oFmg1MNqtrt_490Neao0-zTrIe_SigTCHwRryliAw_bXJmIbN4-6S9NEttj-wekenzlt_V1caRZSmgrdPMYJOvdlsIT7LdoOjPY16fBmLBFQgQFXXpwJ6WlX-9F-YEXZLAV_USnQVxlM8rI5flUM0Zj0E/s1600/mylittleponybestfilliesforever.jpg" width="133" /></a></div>Various, <i>My Little Pony: Passport to Reading – Best Fillies Forever</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2019 / Paperback / 192 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">More dully abridged early-reading adventures that she does enjoy using as educationally intended.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-EUnZ95kk77NzfsUSXbbfbqOdK3vFEJn0X_XF0FbXxxWC4tJmM238H6bfdH_aW5rG1OPnWzNC0kvZa4Q9jTk1OBbBL8YwDK4lX-g2s8HoJCzg_tMUaM3-kjpMaANjPTOQKOBhOPr00B2e-8Wyu1Kqire52TjiBPY5BIaPIEXmArUZjAvSqNMfQP9CvcU/s200/meetblueyastickeractivitybook.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="151" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-EUnZ95kk77NzfsUSXbbfbqOdK3vFEJn0X_XF0FbXxxWC4tJmM238H6bfdH_aW5rG1OPnWzNC0kvZa4Q9jTk1OBbBL8YwDK4lX-g2s8HoJCzg_tMUaM3-kjpMaANjPTOQKOBhOPr00B2e-8Wyu1Kqire52TjiBPY5BIaPIEXmArUZjAvSqNMfQP9CvcU/s1600/meetblueyastickeractivitybook.jpg" width="151" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">Unknown, <i>Bluey: Meet Bluey –</i></span></span><i><span style="font-size: large;"> A Sticker Activity Book</span></i></div><div><br /></div><div>2021 / Sticker activity book / 32 pages</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Father Christmas gave this to her in person. It's almost like he doesn't know her.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Bgz7aV60bKA90Sy93FXDcHRqv7Fnm-JFK-HyvdeTO2dybexFdz69ZVY17K1LS9Y1PZmzGJJnk2bhMzVompNsK78-Yk24QHg0iC4eNXteFr-9jcuuEuXx3dDEaUwLDnvoOq6dKbAt5SjCVegy0U4KfirptE7rZ9UBbRJ-vVVxIj-WeLwPHPa98prWS0c/s200/wordsisay.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Bgz7aV60bKA90Sy93FXDcHRqv7Fnm-JFK-HyvdeTO2dybexFdz69ZVY17K1LS9Y1PZmzGJJnk2bhMzVompNsK78-Yk24QHg0iC4eNXteFr-9jcuuEuXx3dDEaUwLDnvoOq6dKbAt5SjCVegy0U4KfirptE7rZ9UBbRJ-vVVxIj-WeLwPHPa98prWS0c/s1600/wordsisay.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Unknown, <i>Words I Say</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2021 / Paperback / 192 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>****</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A generous selection of variably wordy words to learn.</div><div><br /></div></div></div>Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17297907236641690965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475066931492824114.post-11659357823784992932024-01-17T00:00:00.022+00:002024-01-17T00:00:00.127+00:00Babyliography CLVII<div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3AH97oujaigLxhKz18cFDnqAjiiIHQie6XzCz5j_bfjzc0jnp_W26w32yzQzG64m8rSmNSyq9PVfLR7PdcNaE9WbUt_eWZtgtOIIN-4skztDHOlZjPMvVSi1FX5XmTO7cGj_dDQcHNtfAn0NIZgXFuo7UdUnyOP1B5jJNyTm4Fj16vLzrj2vfOH5ZfnE/s200/wheredoanimalsgoinwinter.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="179" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3AH97oujaigLxhKz18cFDnqAjiiIHQie6XzCz5j_bfjzc0jnp_W26w32yzQzG64m8rSmNSyq9PVfLR7PdcNaE9WbUt_eWZtgtOIIN-4skztDHOlZjPMvVSi1FX5XmTO7cGj_dDQcHNtfAn0NIZgXFuo7UdUnyOP1B5jJNyTm4Fj16vLzrj2vfOH5ZfnE/s1600/wheredoanimalsgoinwinter.jpg" width="179" /></a></div>Katie Daynes and Christine Pym, <i>Usborne First Questions and Answers: Where Do Animals Go in Winter?</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2022 / Library book / 12 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Informative, even to an adult, but unengaging. Nice try, flaps.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid-in5Ngs3evJB0sI_XY-BShafRw00wOC1jsgp0CLDdv_u9zlLTPK6VH7XJX85amFQGv8Cg2e20QOUYOhTokK2FTy0nchs5T_rzy9ZzETbb2UCaTN49mWEmAbkE6kaIlr10JG_-UWEMAlaSg6RFrfzSEpJpP2Mh4ZAcqlf5Tqypu6nJf4Q3ilW1scQ4X0/s200/dontletthepigeondrivethesleigh.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid-in5Ngs3evJB0sI_XY-BShafRw00wOC1jsgp0CLDdv_u9zlLTPK6VH7XJX85amFQGv8Cg2e20QOUYOhTokK2FTy0nchs5T_rzy9ZzETbb2UCaTN49mWEmAbkE6kaIlr10JG_-UWEMAlaSg6RFrfzSEpJpP2Mh4ZAcqlf5Tqypu6nJf4Q3ilW1scQ4X0/s1600/dontletthepigeondrivethesleigh.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Mo Willems, <i>Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh!</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2023 / Ebook / 40 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He waited 20 years, at least.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9DV78gJ45k1hR3ja0y008rhAn9Dfx7gG8pk_YMQXMCX3vuADUE0BlOG7y_jELCXXewyNUn_JShd4a-3QgPqyI1Ty1cprMeAeoWGZon_DGSjnotcJLj43AFy2NhtrfcdXG5hrhwZKAegnqAwcoesUWtJVLvszzl9CaHz8GgnRKrGZwXaiHlZ-YniN8a-g/s200/mylittleponyhideandseek.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="132" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9DV78gJ45k1hR3ja0y008rhAn9Dfx7gG8pk_YMQXMCX3vuADUE0BlOG7y_jELCXXewyNUn_JShd4a-3QgPqyI1Ty1cprMeAeoWGZon_DGSjnotcJLj43AFy2NhtrfcdXG5hrhwZKAegnqAwcoesUWtJVLvszzl9CaHz8GgnRKrGZwXaiHlZ-YniN8a-g/s1600/mylittleponyhideandseek.jpg" width="132" /></a></div>Jennifer Frantz and Robbin Cuddy, <i>My Little Pony: Hide-and-Seek</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2004 / Ebook / 24 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We're mainly playing obscure ponyspotting at this point.</div><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw_33Rln2EkG44hBSL3k5h1Lk9GakGERq2ZKCm-obriD77d8S04xIopuJNfmCLj5LJcvF0cSsvVzK0O-ovOKuj4twf3H5rowu72LUw69avcks7O3Py5y7ly12UCHemyYeegAvs8P_E_7A/s213/santa-claus-has-a-busy-night.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="213" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw_33Rln2EkG44hBSL3k5h1Lk9GakGERq2ZKCm-obriD77d8S04xIopuJNfmCLj5LJcvF0cSsvVzK0O-ovOKuj4twf3H5rowu72LUw69avcks7O3Py5y7ly12UCHemyYeegAvs8P_E_7A/s1600/santa-claus-has-a-busy-night.jpg" width="213" /></a></div>Lynne Bradbury and Jon Davis, <i>Santa Claus Has a Busy Night</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>1985 / Ebook/audiobook / 32 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Passing down another fondly festive childhood book complete with tape this time, via Internet Archive scan and YouTube cassette rip.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqnZuQ0R6QSsZlIP04HkqqF7NzFw2MK2G8S5NGxL15TC-8wED2sVv8fvXRNgWyBHr9luhe8KFI87KgPO2UEBzd-ojhYBQY75_jQ8i9iJv7vaXMY_Of6xUpcQ40iLu27QRWvyt2rkBzcpxfIpwEhcnhPL2jaeYoA6KkUisB4XUTZdc28pDeNPWRosDQphQ/s211/mylittleponythenightbeforechristmas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="211" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqnZuQ0R6QSsZlIP04HkqqF7NzFw2MK2G8S5NGxL15TC-8wED2sVv8fvXRNgWyBHr9luhe8KFI87KgPO2UEBzd-ojhYBQY75_jQ8i9iJv7vaXMY_Of6xUpcQ40iLu27QRWvyt2rkBzcpxfIpwEhcnhPL2jaeYoA6KkUisB4XUTZdc28pDeNPWRosDQphQ/s1600/mylittleponythenightbeforechristmas.jpg" width="211" /></a></div>John Braden, <i>My Little Pony: The Night Before Christmas</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>1986 / Ebook / 28 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Christmas enchantment and infant estrangement with the "Very Old Ponies," complete with authentic 80s cartoon character colouring errors.</div><div><br /></div></div>Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17297907236641690965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475066931492824114.post-64113893305811646892024-01-15T00:00:00.069+00:002024-01-15T20:10:29.381+00:00Babyliography CLVI<div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfHUXqmef8IozGbnYHrc7pHil996iwdv9jLyswCDMQ841D1tR9t9tTqPgFUaiKWOBRp9UZTFNiqMELFSeWmfRGsg-oEJ1Rvx7aU2JKXz6IKY3BfBqjMM0d4zyoWrxDDpog_5H3J_AHrk8_Y8Ttn3Ee0z3G7cfq6IzFEaTgGjXav5uTxQ4XRUGyO3XF3Yo/s200/iloveyoumylittleunicorn.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfHUXqmef8IozGbnYHrc7pHil996iwdv9jLyswCDMQ841D1tR9t9tTqPgFUaiKWOBRp9UZTFNiqMELFSeWmfRGsg-oEJ1Rvx7aU2JKXz6IKY3BfBqjMM0d4zyoWrxDDpog_5H3J_AHrk8_Y8Ttn3Ee0z3G7cfq6IzFEaTgGjXav5uTxQ4XRUGyO3XF3Yo/s1600/iloveyoumylittleunicorn.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Rose Rossner and Morgan Huff, <i>I Love You, My Little Unicorn</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2022 / Ebook / 40 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Soppy even for a unicorn book.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuPideWHFN1KJ7aijb8zOm4eFgmZM-Q9ZLFAiLkGwR_9eq_RdLpPz-2m_K8MXUHesBQ_3dTgYahFUu82NCNRh88a_N3mWw28ca6kF8PAnUMHBRWNgw5PxEHMBL1Zh5ctN-dtrSH1e1D1k7gDeZyjylQp-s_1s1O0qGMiOxxKyBzVoXg3w-vEsFHjnTOIc/s200/unicornandhorse.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="160" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuPideWHFN1KJ7aijb8zOm4eFgmZM-Q9ZLFAiLkGwR_9eq_RdLpPz-2m_K8MXUHesBQ_3dTgYahFUu82NCNRh88a_N3mWw28ca6kF8PAnUMHBRWNgw5PxEHMBL1Zh5ctN-dtrSH1e1D1k7gDeZyjylQp-s_1s1O0qGMiOxxKyBzVoXg3w-vEsFHjnTOIc/s1600/unicornandhorse.jpg" width="160" /></a></div>David W. Miles and Hollie Mengert, <i>Unicorn (and Horse)</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2018 / Ebook / 48 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Explores the racial superiority of pink equines over brown.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj49tyPe-6VFcMRHrSDEBZkwnuuBWVtY5Z9jfu39Du2991JPpmsRUzjd2kpSKrPyjKBtjZhtmA1URNpTa1wE4nl_moVYm3mI1X91JAO5r1X1cG9CLQewo4nygCDsdmXrMtAjq0yObuwZ4G_mct3S7Gtas0FjEgAP1eZ2JTYSaLqq6tKg7EeIlR7XN7MMro/s200/mylittleponythestorm.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj49tyPe-6VFcMRHrSDEBZkwnuuBWVtY5Z9jfu39Du2991JPpmsRUzjd2kpSKrPyjKBtjZhtmA1URNpTa1wE4nl_moVYm3mI1X91JAO5r1X1cG9CLQewo4nygCDsdmXrMtAjq0yObuwZ4G_mct3S7Gtas0FjEgAP1eZ2JTYSaLqq6tKg7EeIlR7XN7MMro/s1600/mylittleponythestorm.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">Sorrel Pitts, <i>Ladybird Readers: My Little Pony – The Storm / Izzy's Presents / Where Is Sunny's Lantern? / </i></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span><i>Hitch Stops the Magic / Hitch Finds an Egg / </i></span><i>Sparky, Where Are You?</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2023 / Ebooks / 144 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The adaptations lack some nuance when simplified almost to haikus, but this is more precocious preschool reading practice, teasing her with interactive elements I can't access because I'm not school.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW69DNLubwoF9uXRnAj0I0yqqdXXMrV6JWLWZjonokukotoukdjQT4xyu9Avo_a_Bp-IPCAd53RotZF8tYiOXjs3ZQJ9voqQGn3_82lTNjZrKYFCU1MoEOaWdWJDXFVNEEHCANpi9U8zoQYy40sPSg8KY6d1I9FSJjGF4e4j-GGWSytFnul3F1KulFsoQ/s200/ifihadaunicorn.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="186" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW69DNLubwoF9uXRnAj0I0yqqdXXMrV6JWLWZjonokukotoukdjQT4xyu9Avo_a_Bp-IPCAd53RotZF8tYiOXjs3ZQJ9voqQGn3_82lTNjZrKYFCU1MoEOaWdWJDXFVNEEHCANpi9U8zoQYy40sPSg8KY6d1I9FSJjGF4e4j-GGWSytFnul3F1KulFsoQ/s1600/ifihadaunicorn.jpg" width="186" /></a></div>Gabby Dawnay and Alex Barrow, <i>If I Had a Unicorn</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2022 / Ebook / 28 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Notable for incorporating the "also by the same author" page into the story.</div><div><br /></div>Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17297907236641690965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475066931492824114.post-16638962960957738602024-01-13T00:00:00.000+00:002024-01-13T00:00:00.143+00:00Babyliography CLV<div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3H6QwV7uUZUOHTyxhFPZY3UhWMkCvwlakC3AuVyExtf7A3UzaiyQ0sqDxXc4FAlDEBs42d79__sIfojVKJUCR1wQCIOBc2baf8MI4UWcXvEjKR82NW4K94MSYnVOoQjsuQe3fteGh1SqIIJUwDiWlyB7qOpToSfa9y7EDPQwy-rIrYE3w9dKVWZH6e0A/s200/neverletaunicornscribble.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="199" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3H6QwV7uUZUOHTyxhFPZY3UhWMkCvwlakC3AuVyExtf7A3UzaiyQ0sqDxXc4FAlDEBs42d79__sIfojVKJUCR1wQCIOBc2baf8MI4UWcXvEjKR82NW4K94MSYnVOoQjsuQe3fteGh1SqIIJUwDiWlyB7qOpToSfa9y7EDPQwy-rIrYE3w9dKVWZH6e0A/s1600/neverletaunicornscribble.jpg" width="199" /></a></div>Diane Alber, <i>Never Let a Unicorn Scribble!</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2019 / Ebook / 32 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And other forbidden pastimes to come, no doubt.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsC64x5Ei_MM5HdpS4kMAn9b1yNikfOQgqRX-KegSiLm1cH3t1_EdRLJ8YmyxulblTbaGCNhwwWqxvhWMATBeJLEX8qT5vMeXW2d-ws_g8PgfKPOhxBytAlkAts38U91pMCJOpmVDdm89ed8UDQcglHRAz19ccEyHEb2ygBe7ij9JAJiBI_3XnMbrYKGw/s200/gerbilsandhamsters.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="152" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsC64x5Ei_MM5HdpS4kMAn9b1yNikfOQgqRX-KegSiLm1cH3t1_EdRLJ8YmyxulblTbaGCNhwwWqxvhWMATBeJLEX8qT5vMeXW2d-ws_g8PgfKPOhxBytAlkAts38U91pMCJOpmVDdm89ed8UDQcglHRAz19ccEyHEb2ygBe7ij9JAJiBI_3XnMbrYKGw/s1600/gerbilsandhamsters.jpg" width="152" /></a></div>Sally Morgan, <i>Pets Plus: Gerbils and Hamsters</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2012 / Library book / 32 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>***</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div>No scary teeth in this one.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidNSfK-E6OTwrYoh8y_Uor7KiTRlKOxZhH3juvyh4Smoq3vfs0dYTzBRYDQyaJUSXSByh-sC0Wp1loliGrXuQssNsvR47NS7u8q_E5LhV7YNm5LSm4VX7Pil_ovQCnZAb7VYFUAbfUzUqMdVS9jvM14YTBXYlEtugUzdiWF0reAao4jgJbg0W12NTKndE/s201/thebabyunicorn.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="201" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidNSfK-E6OTwrYoh8y_Uor7KiTRlKOxZhH3juvyh4Smoq3vfs0dYTzBRYDQyaJUSXSByh-sC0Wp1loliGrXuQssNsvR47NS7u8q_E5LhV7YNm5LSm4VX7Pil_ovQCnZAb7VYFUAbfUzUqMdVS9jvM14YTBXYlEtugUzdiWF0reAao4jgJbg0W12NTKndE/s1600/thebabyunicorn.jpg" width="201" /></a></div>Jean and Claudio Marzollo and R. J. Blake, <i>The Baby Unicorn</i></span><div><br /></div><div>1987 / Ebook / 32 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>****</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The subject matter kept her engaged through this wordy picture book, featuring commendable old-school weirdness and grit.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicpuiaK-GXF62-Tmflx1BwEFz7S1HBgOwZVCWlu0U-X0kF1sxez2afJQnGYaQjaHF8Wq9nKvenLj0nPdAWuuxWIAcs4mCcO4LR0SW4bzRirkH1Ozvn0Pa1mhWGF2pD7rDU-I_KimWCcROJI8apcTAohHOCZsEAhyphenhyphenmQmETH1irLssfkVItRxGS6_k-DxPU/s200/theunicornandthelostcat.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="199" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicpuiaK-GXF62-Tmflx1BwEFz7S1HBgOwZVCWlu0U-X0kF1sxez2afJQnGYaQjaHF8Wq9nKvenLj0nPdAWuuxWIAcs4mCcO4LR0SW4bzRirkH1Ozvn0Pa1mhWGF2pD7rDU-I_KimWCcROJI8apcTAohHOCZsEAhyphenhyphenmQmETH1irLssfkVItRxGS6_k-DxPU/s1600/theunicornandthelostcat.jpg" width="199" /></a></div>Claire Philip and Jessica Rose, <i>Unicorn Stories: The Unicorn and the Lost Cat / And the Wild Horses</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2021 / Ebooks / 48 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You can never have enough unicorn churn, I have learned.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJsgqFjrD8ZQvQvVW5cB0CdsCNp6iO1N3jN9lQuni3mj7KJXRjrpbOSs-4Ze5MYLRgUnkv046_ssowmXBxzv7fU_Kg3yw2NSJlGHoVMuAa-c10PayotXOMKeIhEOoE2rv4E1DnlfP68l0jZWGcsBvjrFzg9qAJdgr1IZlxxjn_00f1adgWSdGI5gBzRuw/s200/unicornday.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="163" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJsgqFjrD8ZQvQvVW5cB0CdsCNp6iO1N3jN9lQuni3mj7KJXRjrpbOSs-4Ze5MYLRgUnkv046_ssowmXBxzv7fU_Kg3yw2NSJlGHoVMuAa-c10PayotXOMKeIhEOoE2rv4E1DnlfP68l0jZWGcsBvjrFzg9qAJdgr1IZlxxjn_00f1adgWSdGI5gBzRuw/s1600/unicornday.jpg" width="163" /></a></div>Diana Murray and Luke Flowers, <i>Unicorn Day</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>2019 / Ebook / 32 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>**</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Inspirational slogans with a semblance of story.</div></div></div><div><br /></div>Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17297907236641690965noreply@blogger.com