1998 / Hardback / 97 pages / UK
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She likes her Barbie ("Boobay") pencil case, so I thought I'd give her a book to aimlessly flip through in full acceptance that it would be appalling shite.
1991 / Hardback / 25 pages / Poland
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I assume it was retitled from the more fitting Opposites when all young readers obsessed over the yes/no page. More worthwhile than another colours or shapes book, even if some of the comparisons are a bit strange and some images not especially helpful.
2018 / Board book / 18 pages / UK
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She's got enough of these already (and better illustrated), but this one was advertised as coming with matching cards. As expected and hoped for, the eBay used book giant refunded rather than going through the hassle of a return, so I can't complain. I just drew the cards myself.
Lucy Cousins, Maisy's Bathtime and Maisy's Bus
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Another book + game set, another generous refund when the rest failed to materialise. I may have stumbled upon a limited duration scam here, but I would've much preferred to receive the admittedly unlikely jigsaws. The stories are pretty rubbish on their own, but the first is darkly amusing in an Elsagate kind of way, enhanced by Maisy not having a voice of her own and wearing that unchanging smile.
2014 / Pop-up board book / 12 pages / UK
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A bedtime book with a bedtime theme, that ought to be manipulative enough. You'd have to be some kind of cheapskate parent to buy your child a pop-up book second-hand, but it saved her the trouble of ripping those bits herself.
