Friday 3 June 2022

Babyliography XLV

A. H. Benjamin and Nick East, In a Minute, Mum

2014 / Paperback / 24 pages / UK

***

Dinos have crawled into her childhood earlier than expected, and this prehistoric sitcom was unintentionally appropriate for addressing her own insistence on "just few minutes."


Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Wild Animal Hide & Seek

2021 / Library book / 12 pages / USA

**

What's he doing there? Ignoring what made the original innovative and borrowing from elsewhere, finger trails meet flaps to give blatant clues that I admittedly failed to pick up on at first as a grown literature graduate.


Eric Hill, Spot's Birthday Party

1982 / Library book / 24 pages / UK

**

The same bloody thing again, except Spot is seeking this time, in an incredible twist. You can tell it's an early one, as most of the friends are still off-model.


Julia Donaldson and Nick Sharratt, Animal Music

2013 / Library book / 24 pages / UK

*

She likes animals and music, but this combination didn't impress. It didn't help that it can't use the actual names of most of the instruments because they're not convenient for the rhyme.


Rod Campbell, My Presents

1988 / Library book / 24 pages / UK

**

Unadventurous and oddly sterile Dear Zoo genre swap. Each stock gift gets its own brand new sentence rather than just a changed adjective, so that's progress.