Tuesday, 7 January 2025

Babyliography CXCV

Ben Clanton, Narwhal Peanut Butter and Jelly: A Narwhal and Jelly Book

2019 / Library book / 64 pages

***

Genuinely funny, but you fly through the pages so fast, you'd need an omnibus of like ten of them to feel you were getting any value.


Vashti Hardy and Katie Cottle, Santa's Marvellous Mechanical Workshop

2023 / Library book / 32 pages

***

Puts a necessary creative spin on the whole thing.


Lisa Ann Scott, Enchanted Pony Academy: All That Glitters

2017 / Paperback / 128 pages

**

It may be supermarket-own-brand Unicorn Academy, but she found it more engaging than those books.


Suzannah Ditchburn, Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds: Pop It On!

2020 / School book / 16 pages

***

Continuing to hammer in a couple of phonemes a week through repetitive inanity. She strangely doesn't mind.


Jamie Smart, Max & Chaffy: Search for the Ice Chaffy

2023 / Library book / 128 pages

***

These cute, excitable things actually have a developing arc, but she prefers to read them out of order, even though she doesn't have to.