Sunday, 11 December 2022

Babyliography LXXXVII

Dr. Seuss, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

1960 / Library book / 64 pages / USA

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Fox in Socks Lite, the parade goes on and on, but it kept her attention. I made do with Stoppit and Tidy-up.


Dr. Seuss, Dr. Seuss's ABC

1963 / Library book / 72 pages / USA

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Imposing order on the chaos makes this a lesser work, but still more worthwhile than your standard cash-in alphabet book.


Mac Barnett and Shawn Harris, A Polar Bear in the Snow

2020 / Library book / 40 pages / USA

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The cut-outs would be pretty enough to justify an author-illustrator project, but this ambient non-story requiring an independent writer is like when a singer doesn't even pick up an instrument.

 
Various, Follow Me Around the World: Finger Mazes

2018 / Library book / 14 pages / UK

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Indistinguishable from the varied environments of the first one, but maybe those fingers need new trails.


Unknown, My Little Pony: First Look and Find

2013 / Ebook / 24 pages / USA

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"First" was the word to avoid there. When she wasn't being patronised by the familiar characters just standing there like a normal picture she just wasn't interested in finding their apple pies and shit.