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.

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Big Cook Little Cook is like this. The proportions of the spoons and things that Big gives to Small, are just WRONG.

The wings are not upside down! It's an artstic choice!

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Here's hoping the OP never reads a Dr. Seuss book. I think the fish riding a bicycle might make her head explode

I thought it was just me getting annoyed at the 'Pesty' fly! I just say 'Pesky' every time.

The perspective on In The Night Garden really winds me up. How can they be getting on the Pinky Ponk or the Ninky Nonk? They are tiny! And could they please make up their minds as to how much smaller Makka Pakka is? He seems to change in relation to Iggle Piggle and Upsy Daisy every time.

Don't even get me started on the Tombliboo bush, it's like a fucking TARDIS in there.

I read Megs Vag too [hblush]

ITNG! The scale? WTF?! My poor brain!!!

PMSL frank. DH actually has to leave the room whenever ITNG comes on, otherwise he starts muttering under his breath like a lunatic, and all I can make out is little words like 'fucking' and 'scale' in between the puffs of steam emanating from his ears. And yes, I do just read it as 'pesky', but when DS1 learned to read and corrected me, we had to have a little chat .

Any pictures of spiders with less than the requisite 8 legs make my teeth itch.

Ah, well DS is only just 2, so we've got a bit of time to get him indoctrinated with 'pesky'.

academyblues I agree, though you mean 'fewer', naturally .

In the 'Ladybird said never a word' book whoever heard of a farmer being woken in the middle of the night by a thief and saying 'Golly Gosh!'. I am desperate to replace it with a more realistic expression.

And black writing on dark blue pages is impossible to read with energy saving lightbulbs (Oliver Jeffers).

Ha, the Squash and the Squeeze house used to really wind me up, I'd forgotten about that.

I also hate it when a whole book has really good rhyming but there is one page that just doesn't scan properly. Miffy books I'm thinking of you, also "We all Join In" by Quentin Blake - the rhyme about the cats just doesn't work for me, whereas the rest of them are perfect. I think Aliens Love Underpants has one of these as well.

I can't believe no-one's mentioned Silly Suzy Goose yet: "If I was a penguin..." etc.

I was brought up on The Very Hungry Caterpillar and so never realsed the cocoon/chrysalis error .

We had a book about farms from the library with a photo of straw balesincorrectly bearing the label "hay bales". I nearly emailed the publishers to complain but then I thought they would think I was a pedant with nothing better to do better of it. Still wrong, though.

Have to say I'm loving reading "the pirate cruncher" and also "good little wolf" both are a little dark

Aargh, yes, one of Aliens Love Underpants or Dinosaurs Love Underpants has terrible punctuation. You do not use commas after every line of rhyme.

When I saw the thread title, I thought you meant morally wrong - like that thieving / murdering Jack (of Beanstalk fame)...

Oh god, silkenladder, I'd forgotten about Silly Suzy Goose!! Had to take it back to the library because I couldn't bring myself to keep reading it .

at the Golly Gosh farmer saying, "Fucking cunt" in beanandspud's imagination (possibly)

beanandspud I love the 'drinking tea with the burglar' scene in Mog The Forgetful Cat, for the same reason.

I feel your pain OP. I am currently a/ trying to work out when Peepo is supposed to be set exactly - clearly during the second world war but why have the children not been evacuated from London? (nitpicking because have to read it at least twice a day - love it really) and b/ in the second verse of Rock a Bye Baby how can daddy be a nobleman and mummy be a queen? I suppose mummy could be queen in her own right and daddy is a nobleman and not a king but brother is a drummer and drums for the king so there is a king somewhere. Just some of the thoughts running through my head as I sit in the dark willing DS2 to go to sleep.

Inspired by another thread.

May I submit 'Good Night Gorilla' as another book where the perspective is a bit off?

The 'gorilla' in question is also not a gorilla. Possibly a small chimp. But way too small to be a gorilla. In some pictures he looks small enough to be a spider monkey.

I always wince when a male cow is depicted, in picture books, with udders.

The second verse of hush-a-bye baby worries me too Stella, unless daddy is not in fact married to mummy.

Or he could be King and also an Earl or similar? But then who are Johnny and Bessie? Unless they're not the baby's brother and sister, just people the baby would see often...

I'm putting too much thought into this!

And in 'Because a Little Bug Went Ka-Choo', how can a worm kick a tree? Just how?