Monday, 9 December 2024

Babyliography CLXXXIX

Kelly Thompson and Brianne Drouhard, Mega Princess

2016-17 (collected 2017) / Library book / 128 pages

****

Her first superhero comic, I suppose, but still comfortably in the childhood fantasy realm. She doesn't even mind too much that Jerk Pony isn't Jerk Unicorn.


Sue Hendra, Oliver's Wood

1996 / School book / 32 pages

*

Don't stay up late, because there are only scary, antisocial creatures, or something like that.


Catherine Ipcizade, Cycles of Nature: Phases of the Moon

2020 / Library book / 24 pages

***

The Moon's a part of our lives again now it rises before bedtime, so she wanted to learn more. She was inspired to take notes.


Charlotte Raby and Camilla Galindo, Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds: A Cat, a Kid, a Dog

2022 / School book / 16 pages

*

She's moved up to reading level 2. Twice the thrice-weekly fun.


Dana Simpson, Phoebe and Her Unicorn in Unicorn Theater

2018 / Paperback / 152 pages

****

The second (final?) full-length graphic novel in the series makes a sustained examination of the characters' feelings in a way that isn't really possible in syndicated newspaper funnies. Back to those now.