to really dislike it when picture books are just wrong?

[mousyfledermaus]

for example "a squash and a squeeze" the house from the outside does not match (windows/doors) the inside.
not to mention funny proportions.

Aaaah...

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The Tiger Who Came to Tea has always irritated me for the reasons given above - the water in the taps etc.

I would agree wholeheartedly about the penguins and polar bears. What annoys me more is obvious typos, appalling grammar and shoddy artwork. DS was given a Waybuloo (sp?) book recently. The artwork looked as if someone had taken photos from their TV. Terrible. And the story was dire. It went to the Oxfam bookshop!

I want to know exactly why it's not the mum in Bear Hunt. In this house, it's the mum.

Also, if we're talking about Dear Zoo, does anyone else have major problems when Buster goes looking for eggs with the ducks, but of course ducks don't have eggs... I have to quickly add in 'No HEN eggs here!'.

Apologies in advacne because I haven't read the whole of this thread but has anyone got The Highway Rat by JD? For the life of me I cannot get the scan on bit where 'the Highway Rat' is repeated three times and nor can DH.

(also I am an architect and never noticed the Squash and a Squeeze house )

We once bought a set of mini Bob the Builder books to entertain DD on a ferry. The text appeared to have been written by an unpaid intern with a hangover while simultaneously uploading pictures of the previous night's drunken antics onto Facebook. Fortunately DD was more interested in trying to fit them all back into the cardboard sleeve than having them read to her, or DH and I may have felt compelled to throw ourselves overboard.

Silkenladder: mini Bob the Builder set, yes! haha. So much of the vocabulary is completely incomprehensible to young children - like describing one of them as 'enthusiastic' or another who likes 'playing practical jokes'. Eh? It's a toddler set with cardboard pages ffs. And they're so DULL, no story at all.

At the start of Meg on the Moon, Mog's birthday cake has three candles. At the end there are four candles.

But it's only a day trip isn't it?

JeanBodel thank you! I've always read it to DS as (roughly) 'No eggs here - well, of course ducks do lay eggs, and you can eat them, but we don't usually have them for breakfast, or maybe the ducks hadn't laid any that day'. Your way is a little more elegant.

JeanBodel, duck eggs are delicious I get them from the market. A pair tried to nest in my Uncle's garden this year, my dad managed to rescue one of the eggs and fostered it out to a friend with an incubator. And this is a restaurant just up the road from me...

Another one that needs the apostrophe police - Lucy the Ladybird.

"I have learn't to fly"

AUGH!

The one that drives me demented is when the naughty wild animal who likes to kill and eat other animals, is by the end of the story, turned into a nice animal who lives alongside all the other animals in peace. BUT THEN WHAT IS IT SUPPOSED TO EAT? E.g. The Lion Who Wanted to Love - so he becomes a vegetarian, does he? And The Selfish Crocodile - ends his days eating weeds or something? The lion who wanted to love saves an antelope or something from a leopard that's hunting it - but then what about the poor leopard starving to death? It's obviously trying to teach children about being caring, but it's completely distorting the truth about nature and wildlife. Grrr.

Thanks beanandspud I now know that the tune to "The smartest giant in town" is pretty much what i sing anyway give or take Always think the rhyming in that book is for Southerners though as my Northern sounding mum pronounce Giraffe without an 'R' sound so Scarf doesn't rhyme at all - do some people pronounce scarf, Scaf?

In "The tiger who came to tea" I always say 'mummy's wine' but never questioned the 'mum' in "Going on a bear hunt" was not the mum but did think she looked extremely youthful!

I too think the "Maisy" books/dvds are crackers with her hammering a bird table and going supermarket shopping with Charley but then cuddling up in bed with her panda.

Know there is more but must do the school run.

yy! giraffe with a scarf!
I didn't know it was supposed to rhyme, until I heard a local (to here) lady say the title - suddenly it clicked into place!
and I was
because that's not how everybody says it.

How can giraffe with a scarf not rhyme?! How are you saying giraffe? I say 'jih-RARf'.

are yo usouthern?
up north, we say "jir-affe"

YY to the Bear Hunt conundrum - have always wondered about the oldest girl/mum question, esp as she looks older on some pages than others.

And YYY to Mog and the Baby. I reckon Mrs Thomas is actually in the kitchen slowly emptying a bottle of gin while Mog does the babysitting. Sometimes the odd hic! can be heard in between words when I read it to DD.

But my personal bugbear also concerns the goose in What the Ladybird Heard - I don't mind it hissing instead of honking, but I do mind when it suddenly becomes geese at the very end - fair enough if the picture shows lots of them, but there's still only one. One with multiple personality disorder, perhaps.

MrHeadlessMan on page 2 - Is that what happened with your head ??

(Head blew off looking at fish on bicycle in DrSeuss ?)

.... Or do you have a thing about heads ? [Hmm]

I am. I don't like cucumber sandwiches though.

I don't think that Mrs Thomas is all that bright though.

In Mog's Christmas she takes it upon herself to climb up a ladder onto the roof to take Mog his supper. If DH was having a strop I wouldn't be risking life and limb to deliver his dinner - never mind for a blooming cat!

well, there you go then

i'm northern and I like cucumber sandwiches.

There's a Welsh picture book with the main character's name changing midway through (from Owain to Harri) and then back again!

The upside down butteryfly wings in The Very Hungry Caterpillar reeeeealllly annoys me too! Glad i'm not the only one [hgrin]

The Bear Hunt is wrong.

One minute they are going splash splosh through the river, the next minute there's a snow storm, hooo wooo! If it's cold enough to snow should they be going bare foot in the water?

What about 'Arthur' (in books and on CBBC) where they are all animals (I think Arthur and his family are meant to be aardvaarks (Canadian ones at that), his best friend is a Rabbit and yet he has a pet dog, and his friend has a pet cat. [hconfused]