Monday 24 January 2022

Babyliography XXIII

Andy Mansfield and Thomas Flintham, One Lonely Fish

2016 / Library book / 22 pages / UK

***

Her funnest counting book so far. Minimalist with character. I don't know how much she grasped the dark humour of it all, but she wanted a second round anyway.


Mem Fox and Helen Oxenbury, Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes

2008 / Library book / 40 pages / Australia/UK

*

Tedious instructional to encourage white toddlers not to be prejudiced, apart from against the disabled, conspicuously. I appreciate that she didn't care for it, it was bad enough the first time.


Various, Five Favourite Bedtime Tales

1999 / Hardback / 140 pages / UK

***

An inferior, wordier supplement to her Usborne equivalents contributing a few more fairy tales with no overlap, since it's good to have your own default definitive versions of these things.


Roger Hargreaves, Little Miss Bossy

1981 / Library book / 32 pages / UK

**

I tried, but we're going to need a more practical solution than a wizard doing it, again.


"Eric Hill," What's That Sound, Spot?

2020 / Library book / 12 pages / UK

*

Trying to identify this online, it seems the library got the most limited of the various variations, though she still wanted to read it five times and her attempts to say 'saxophone' were funny.