2014 / Library book / 40 pages / UK
**
The delayed gratification wasn't worth it. It wasn't much different from Rain, the author-illustrator taking the popular thematic approach of getting away with writing the same book multiple times.
Jeanne Willis and Ross Collins, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
***
One of several films in her current rotation, I didn't expect I'd be reading her the Lewis Carroll original any time soon, but I was still impressed that she sat through this modern rhyming adaptation one and a half times. Glad she didn't want any more though, or I'd be stuck in jaunty meter all day.
Unknown, Peppa Pig: Peppa Loves the Park
**
I don't bother counting the customary Peppa or two she wants read on every trip to the library, since that would be acknowledging them as literature, but this was finally a notable one, to someone as easily impressed by moving parts as I. It does make all the other books look even more oddly static though.
Various, Usborne Stories For Little Children
2010 / Hardback / 184 pages / UK
****
A compilation of their pointlessly segregated Little Boys & Girls books (I don't want to break it to her that she's not supposed to find the Gingerbread Man fun), this proved to be the follow-up to their Fairy Tales book we'd been waiting for. It doesn't have flaps, but she makes it an interactive experience anyway, mainly pretending to eat and share around all the food while a narrative drones on in the background.
Marion Walter, The Magic Mirror Book
***
I didn't buy her the same mirror book I had as a child solely for nostalgia purposes, more because it was available and cheap. I always found some of these cryptic half-illustrations a little creepy, so that's an experience to pass on too. She likes it.
Supplementary favourites:
- Mr Gumpy's Outing
- Mr Rabbit and the Lovely Present
- Dr Xargle's Book of Earthlets
