Wednesday, 5 February 2025

Babyliography CXCVIII

Unknown, My Little Pony: Favourite Stories

1988 / Hardback / 93 pages

**

Summing up her less-favoured OG era more economically than another batch of annuals when the bedtime mood seems right for comfy blandness, this is much more what you'd expect for a 1980s toy ponies tie-in than its often traumatising animated counterpart.


Heather Nuhfer and Amy Mebberson, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Volume 2

2013 / Ecomics / 104 pages

****

Collecting all 100-plus issues of the comic physically (even before all the spin-offs) would be a bit prohibitively expensive, but we can spend some screen time getting through these new episodes. This was a nicely spooky arc.


Zanna Davidson and Barbara Bongini, Fairy Ponies: Midnight Escape

2010 / Paperback / 96 pages

***

The progenitor to the more successful Fairy Unicorns series assumes readers will possess more enthusiasm and familiarity with real horses than your average magical unicorn fanatic, but she still enjoyed the story.


Robert Lopez, Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Christopher Beck, Frozen: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack – Easy Piano Songbook

2014 / Paperback / 72 pages

**

It was overly optimistic or arrogant of me to assume we'll ever be able to comprehend this when adding it to her eBay Christmas book bundle. We'll stick with watching the videos where the notes float slowly down the screen and failing to keep up.


Nigel Kitching and Richard Elson, Sonic the Comic: Running Wild

1996 / Ebook / 21 pages

*****

I forgot how drawn-out and convoluted the whole Super Sonic / Special Zone arc was that gripped me through the latter half of '96, but this berserk opening act is all you really need. She appreciated Amy being so prominent and wasn't fooled by the fake-out deaths.