Tuesday 9 August 2022

Babyliography LIII

Unknown, Spot's Slide and Seek Funfair

2021 / Library book / 10 pages / UK

**

Not the old-school Funfair one with flaps that was actually by Eric Hill, but a new generation of more annoying and ridiculously obscured push/pull tabs, most of which just extend the scene unremarkably.


Pippa Goodhart and Nick Sharratt, You Choose

2003 / Library book / 32 pages / UK

****

We'd read the Peppa Pig bastardisation previously, and it unsurprisingly works better without awkwardly-appropriated branding. She has plenty of multiple choice in her daily life already, from breakfasts to playgrounds and library books, but she seemed to enjoy making endless inconsequential decisions with no apparent logic. It's a shame they don't conglomerate into a unique story at the end, but it's not like it's on a computer, is it? Hang on, maybe that's my job.


Ingela P. Arrhenius, Where's Mrs Queen?

2020 / Library book / 12 pages / Sweden

*

I didn't choose it. In her defence, she thought it was some kind of princess book.


Jo Lodge, Snap! Snap! I'm a Crocodile!

2022 / Library book / 10 pages / UK

**

Animals open and close their mouths and flick their tongues a bit. Scrapes a point for comparatively obscure wildlife, there aren't enough piranhas in toddler literature.


Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, Tales from Acorn Wood: Cat's Cookbook

2021 / Library book / 12 pages / UK/Germany

***

A cat and mouse learn how to conduct research. The foreboding undercurrent sadly came to naught when they ended up making macaroni cheese, but this is a pretty good series as they go.