Wednesday 2 October 2024

Babyliography CLXXXI: Receptionreads


I was planning to rename this increasingly insultingly-titled catalogue of my daughter's reading now that she's started proper school, but for the sake of big numbers, all the unicorn continuity, and not being able to think of a new title, she's stuck with it until she learns to read in secret.



Dana Simpson, Razzle Dazzle Unicorn: Another Phoebe and Her Unicorn Adventure

2013-14 (collected 2016) / Paperback / 184 pages

***

Premature Christmas / culturally-irrelevant Thanksgiving special.


Celeste Bronfman and Amy Mebberson, My Little Pony, Volume 4: Sister Switch

2024 / Library book / 128 pages

***

Recycles a plot that happened to other princess sisters in the previous generation, but she still wanted all five issues in a day. The kid loves comics, don't know where she gets it from.


Unknown, Unicorn Academy: Under the Fairy Moon

2024 / Library book / 160 pages

***

She has no interest in the original books, but adapt an episode she's already seen and slap familiar imagery on, and she snaps it up. I was exactly the same. We skipped the frequent exposition digressions that are only there to expand a 45-minute episode to 160 pages.


Eiko Kadono, Kiki's Delivery Service

1985 / Ebook / 259 pages

****

I gave this the parental screening earlier this year (for attention span, rather than content warnings), and its episodic chapters are already a favourite bedtime request, to be acted out the next day.


David Lumsdon and Shiei, My Little Pony: The Manga – A Day in the Life of Equestria, Vol. 1

2019 / Library book / 120 pages

****

What the Pony Life show could have been, if it had actually been funny. Even if we don't get the meme references.