Thursday, 9 June 2022

Babyliography XLVI

Tony Ross, I Want My Dinner

1995 / Library book / 32 pages / UK

**

Misleadingly not really about dinner, but rather a manners instructional. There's even a coherent plot this time, so less repetitive filler than the potty one.


Barbara Lehman, The Red Book

2004 / Ebook / 32 pages / USA

****

She didn't really get or appreciate this wordless magical tribute to shared reading, but I thought it was lovely anyway.


Mo Willems, Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale

2004 / Ebook / 36 pages / USA

***

You can tell she enjoys and relates to a book when she wants to read it five times through and then roleplay it so many times you lose count. Fortunately, the props were on hand.


Sam Taplin and Federica Iossa, Usborne Sound Books: Zoo Sounds

2019 / Library book / 10 pages / UK/Italy

***

The noisy books are always her first picks at the library, and there's still somehow always one we haven't "read." The enthusiasm of the editor forced to keep coming up with text for these things is contagious.


Sam Taplin and Federica Iossa, Usborne Sound Books: Wild Animals Sound Book

2021 / Library book / 10 pages / UK/Italy

***

I thought we'd done this one, but I didn't record it and can't remember either way by this point. Some good field recordings, but not having similarly realistic art is a bit odd. They presumably know what they're doing.