Wednesday 15 June 2022

Babyliography XLVII

Unknown, Find Spot at Nursery: A lift-the-flap book

2021 / Library book / 16 pages / Unknown

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If it debuted in 2021, it's not Eric Hill (d.2014), is it? Unless he thoughtfully churned out a load of these in advance for his publisher to milk at a steady trickle after his death. Then again, it's hard to believe that anyone else could come up with such imaginative places for Spot and his friends to hide after 40 years. Toddler liked it.


Kasia Dudziuk, Kerri-Ann Hulme and Natalia Boileau, Follow Me Farm: Finger Mazes

2021 / Library book / 14 pages / France/UK

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She's getting better at these. Since I didn't buy it, we didn't need to bother with the side quests to get more value.


Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks, Who's At the Zoo?: A lift-the-flap book

2021 / Library book / 10 pages / UK

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A new lift-the-flap series in 2021. Innovate, you lazy cunts.


Unknown, My Little Pony: 1001 Stickers

2019 / Sticker activity book / 48 pages / UK

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So that count's mainly made up of the small square stickers she doesn't like, but it's a hearty (in both senses) activity book she can scale up with (if she doesn't scribble all over the harder mathematical ones) and the big stickers were perfect for potty pimping.


Patricia Hegarty, Unicorn: A Magical Book of Colours

2019 / Library book / 16 pages / UK

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If they like the aesthetics of My Little Pony, but it's all a bit fast yet, this could be a barely adequate supplement, simplifying the characterisation somewhat.