Wednesday, 11 June 2025

Babyliography CCXVI

Andrea Beaty and David Roberts, Aaron Slater, Illustrator

2021 / Library book / 40 pages

**

A bit wordy for a book about drawing, but it means well.


Rosie Greening, The Very Hungry Worry Monsters

2019 / Library book / 32 pages

**

Some of the friendly monsters were more distressing than the phobias.


Sarah Coyle and Adam Walker-Parker, Pick a Story: A Wizard Astronaut Pyramid Adventure

2025 / Library book / 32 pages

***

She chanced across the good ending on the first path, but gamely went back in for more.


Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet, Doug the Bug That Went Boing!

2013 / Library book / 32 pages

**

It always feels like there's a page missing in these before the abrupt resolution.


Suzy Senior and Dan Taylor, How to Spot a Unicorn

2024 / Library book / 32 pages

**

Commendably leaves the legitimacy of the party unicorn open to interpretation before patronisingly spelling that out and then featuring a bonus unicorn anyway. It's like it was written for little kids.