Saturday 17 December 2022

Babyliography XCIII

Rosie Greening and Stuart Lynch, Do You Believe in Groovicorns?

2018 / Library book / 12 pages / UK

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More swatch book than story.


Various, Tick-Tock Clock Book / My First Clock Book

2015/2020 / Hardback/Library book / 22 pages / UK

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Learning the clock was a particularly troubled home learning memory, so I'm just easing her in with the o'clocks for now.


Posy Simmonds, Baker Cat

2004 / Library book / 32 pages / UK

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This may have been her introduction to institutionally grim British children's literature. It got me down, anyway.


Adam Hargreaves, Little Miss Bad / Little Miss Brave

2003/2021 / Library books / 64 pages / UK

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Her enthusiasm is warming me to the endless, repetitive churn.


Emily Gravett, Too Much Stuff!

2020 / Library book / 32 pages / UK

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If this is really the first time a self-destructive hoarding fable's been told with magpies, we've got a modern classic on our hands.