AIBU to have serious concerns about a Julia Donaldson book?

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Perhaps the burglar is a reformed character. All thanks to the wonderful Mog!

I’m more concerned about one of the ‘ Mog’ books. Mog alerts the family to a burglar and in the picture it shows the family, the police AND the burglar all smiling whilst enjoying a cuppa!!!

Good grief, the worlds truly gone mad, we can’t just read a kids book anymore without trying to read things into it. Whatever you do OP, don’t read Enid Blyton

Halfway up the stairs is the stair where I sit; there isn't any other stair quite like it.
It's not at the bottom, it's not at the top, so this is the stair where I always stop.
Just saying
And I was told it was "As I was going up the stairs, I met a man who wasn't there” ....etc. But maybe that was my grammatically correct dad.
But heigh ho

Stickman makes me cry! Especially the tv programme. How weird am I?! 🤣

This is hilarious, but I also have this book memorised because my toddler loves it. 😂

I have ADHD. Neither I nor my child have ever questioned the clothing placement, late awakening or mouse's aimless wandering and sporadic crafting. Just a normal day here.

YABVU

We love these books and the others in the series. The animals always dress so dapper and have lovely homes. My 2yold sreads this hinself 'Naughty Fox lost his socks' and I read your whole post in his voice <3

I need a list of recommended children's books now lol! I borrowed Goat goes to playgroup by JD when my niece was little, haven't read most of the ones mentioned here...

I now regret selling the whole collection- I want to read them all again 😂

Yeah but he's clearly a bastard, going out to do his hobbies and leaving Sticky Lady to get the three children up and do breakfast.

Not to derail but ....it's when you have to read story books aloud that you realise how rubbish many of them are. Like the captions not matching the pictures? Not Julia she is brilliant!

Ps I wish someone would reprint the Puddle Lane books , they were simply the best.

I think this is massively unfair to poor ol stickman - he was trying to get home the whole time!

Of course, Madam dragon may well have been telling the truth. Lots of hay to fatten the poor horse up so there’s more of him to go around 😅

A doomed rendezvous from the start, they should’ve known it would never end well.

I thought this was going to be about The Ugly Five and I was so keen to run it down. Beastly book, they aren’t ugly at all, the poor bastards.

I changed the pronouns for some of the animals in Dear Zoo. My poor bemused toddler was once treated to a lecture on animal welfare practices and responsible acquisition policies during a reading. In my defence it was lockdown and we were all a little crazy.

I was always convinced the horse was eaten in Zog.

Not to mention all the animals are "he"

I'm like this about the "5 Little Monkeys" nursery rhyme. All boys falling over and mummy in charge of calling the doctor who needs to report a safeguarding concern about all these head injuries.

When I sing it I alternate randomly between bumping his/her head and mummy/daddy/granny/grandpa phoning the doctor

YES. I always read it while adding "please" and "thank you"

Not to mention all the animals are "he"

Actually, re sexism in children's books, I do actually love Tabby McTat but it's one of the many books that eventually prompted my DS to wail 'Mama, are thiefs ALWAYS boys?

The Snail and the Whale has convinced him that all sharks have 'hideous, toothy grins' and he found it very confusing recently when reading a shark fact book from the library to see pictures of sharks with no grins. 'But where are their grins?' Luckily the book was called 'Everything You Know About Sharks is Wrong', and this just proved it.

I find Stickman unbearably sad since I read in a book about children’s literature that JD’s son had schizophrenia and died by suicide - if you see it as a character helplessly running and trying to evade increasingly outlandish peril while trying to reach home it is……awful.

The rhymes in all her books are often torturous to read aloud.

Also, I'm convinced that the horse in Zog doesn't get given lots of hay and is messily devoured as a group meal as soon as they fly off. Look at the expression on his face - he knows it too. Where's the RSPCA when you need them?

I'm several children into Julia Donaldson books and generally love them.

However, the Snail and the Whale near done for me.

That was the book that alerted me to just how literal and over-thinking my DS2 is.

I ended up googling the swimming ability of snails, how long they could breathe under water for, could they stay stuck on in water only to culminate in DS announcing that he just didn't think the snail could go over sand like it did. That was the unbelievable bit for him.

Although all JD is better than frigging In The Night Garden.

I've always been concerned about how Stick Man and his wife produce kids. Wouldn't all that vigorous rubbing make then go up in flames?

And I've never been quite sure who taught the snail on the whale to write

I always thought Mr Fox must have been on a bender the night before