Friday 13 May 2022

Babyliography XLI

Marion Billet, Listen to the Seaside

2020 / Library book / 14 pages / France

**

She gives their introductory musical ones a spin on every library visit, but their ambient efforts are lacking compared to Usborne's. We've become connoisseurs of the medium.


Unknown, Winnie-the-Pooh: Hide-and-Seek – A lift-and-find book

2019 / Library book / 20 pages / UK

*

Offensive flaps that don't obscure much in the first place and need to be held closed to avoid revealing the remaining limbs. It adds some counting in a pitiful attempt to secure another star, but I won't have it.


Aimée Chapman, Robyn Newton, Kylie Hamley, Louise Wright and Anne Passchier, Follow My Heart: Finger Mazes

2018 / Library book / 14 pages / UK

***

I'd considered getting her some themed sequel or other after the original amused her for a few days, but glad I didn't bother now. It's more of the same, only less so.


Sara Stanford, Peppa Pig Sticker Activity Book: Seasons

2021 / Paperback / 20 pages / UK

**

A few activities to pass limited time, worth it when discounted to less than a quarter of full price.


Sam Taplin and Ag Jatkowska, Usborne Musical Books: The Animal Orchestra Plays Beethoven

2021 / Library book / 10 pages / UK/Poland

*

Toddlers will delight to hear the composer's biography read aloud accompanied by random snippets of his music with no attempt at engagement. For a noisy book, it was also just too darn loud.