Saturday 28 May 2022

Babyliography XLIV

Fiona Watt and Katie Melrose, Usborne Musical Books: Carnival of the Animals

2021 / Library book / 10 pages / UK/USA

**

They weren't the first to do it, but this one adds a morbid supernatural dino bone dance to potentially creep toddlers out.


Axel Scheffler, Axel Scheffler's Flip Flap Frozen

2019 / Library book / 28 pages / Germany

***

An old idea, even to her. Mixing up names and descriptions advances the idea, but overcomplicates the fun. Crafty of the author or publisher to theme it by climate zone, this may already be one of many sequels.


Unknown, Animal Peep-Through: My Jungle Friends

2022 / Library book / 10 pages / UK

**

Overlapping layers are a better tease of what's next than those rubbish tab books, and the roleplaying mirror is employed for more than vanity, but the text may as well have been lorem ipsum for all its use.


Eric Hill, Spot Goes on Holiday

1985 / Library book / 24 pages / UK

**

The ominous danger of the first book ramps up with an aggro hippo that Spot's dad seems indifferent to. I don't want to go to the beach, daddy.


Maja Andersen, Once Upon A Time... There Was a Little Bird

2021 / Library book / 16 pages / USA

**

It taught her (okay, us) some tree species and covered migration quite nicely. I skipped the dumb fable finale, which might be missing the point, but she wanted to read it four more times regardless.