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.

[CaptainNancy]

I am quite secretly pleased that the baby monkey in 'Monkey Puzzle' is a pedant though- 'No, no, no- that's my Dad'

[TipOfTheSlung]

I think its talking about 'he' with regards to a cow that then has udders

[FrankNCock]

How about the companion piece to 'Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See?' that is 'Polar Bear Polar Bear What Do You Hear?'

I have just been to the zoo, and the flamingos most certainly do not make a 'fluting' noise. They honk.

[SmethWitchBelle]

Mildly off topic - In Alfie Gets in First I always wonder if Mrs MacNally's Maureen is her daughter, with Mrs MacNally as an older mum, or her granddaughter, I wish it would say but Shirley Hughes can do no wrong in my eyes - this is curiousity not a flaw in the book!

[ramonacoaster]

AKMD agree with the ChArLiE and LoLA, and the writing does the 'loop the loop' and goes UP
and
Down
whilst you are trying to read it.....very off-putting.[hgrin]

[TheTenantOfWildfellHall]

SIL showed me a picture book she bought for her niece with labeled photos of different animals so that baby can learn.

On the bird page there is a photo of a puffin with the label 'Pelican' underneath it!

[MrsTittleMouse]

Marks and Spencer made a book about a little penguin. Who was friends with a polar bear, a fox and a seal. Drove me nuts every time! What was he doing in the Arctic? My opinion of M&S went right down.

Tigers and lions together also make my blood boil.

I need to get out more.

[Funtimewincies]

I get a twitch when I see animals in 'the jungle' which clearly come from the savanna, but I'm dealing with it, one book at a time .

[Beamur]

Distress at the sad bear at the end of 'Going on a Bear Hunt' here too.
My DH would love this thread - he particularly enjoys 'Each Peach Pear Plum' and some story about a cow called Bramble we have because they are geographically true - the layout and relative positioning is consistent.
I've not noticed the claw hand in Stick Man...but will have to go and look now.
I often tweak the words or metre to a story/poem to make it fit how I would like it to be - but then I have to remember to do it each time or I get told off for not reading the story 'right' - once DD can read I may get found out.

[WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes]

I tweak Aliens love Underpants, can't remember which bit (it's been a while). Also some of the Miffy books, which oddly enough make me want to read them in the voice of Pam Ayres........

[CaptainNancy]

smethwickbelle- Mrs McNally's Maureen is clearly her daughter! I imagine she's about 19, and Mrs. McNally is around 50 (but I'd never ask, because you don't ask a lady her age )

Don't forget, in those days, you weren't an adult until 21...

Actually, age of majority changed from 21 to 19 on 01/01/1970... so Maureen technically an adult I think.

[SmethWitchBelle]

Captain Nancy [grins] You see I'd say Maureen only looks about 15 and I'd place Mrs McNally at more like 60.

[CaptainNancy]

Hard lives, hard lives

I always imagine that Alfie's family are the only mc family in the street- they are living in that area to be true to their socialist principles. Once Mum goes back to Social Work when Annie Rose is at school, they'll probably move to a house the other side of the High St, where they used to have a 1-bed flat until the children came along.

[TotemPole]

In The Tiger Who Came to Tea ... you can't drink all the water out of the tap. It doesn't work like that.

[beanandspud]

In 'Topsy and Tim go the the doctor' why don't we see mummy begging and pleading with the receptionist for a same-day appointment?

And when Topsy gets a sore throat at tea time they just trundle back off to the Health Centre again (which obviously never closes and has immediate drop-in appointments).

TotemPole - that was also on my list of niggles.

[LifeOfKate]

Hogwarts, I love you, you've just saved me from having to type a whole essay about the wrongness of Mog and the Baby :o
Never mind buying the sodding cat a fish as a reward, if I was Mrs Clutterbuck, I would NOT be letting Mrs Thomas babysit again and would be here typing a very strongly worded AIBU.

DS has a terrible book called Rabbit's Nap (Julia Donaldson again) which does not flow well at all. A sample line is: 'Hush-a-bunny! Tra-la-la! We'll sing you off to sleep! Zzzzz! Zzzzz! What's that? Shall we have a peep?' I never know how to say the Zzzz, do I actually say them as Zeds or just make sleeping-style noises? Also it has a line that goes 'Bang! Clash!Who's that? Oh no! a band of Mice'. I CANNOT say Clash, it always sounds very wrong and I end up saying Crash instead.

[CristinaaarghdellAaarghPizza]

SmethWitch - I think Mrs McNally's Maureen is her daughter but moved out of home, she's just over visiting her mum. Why did you think she wasn't her daughter?

Peepo is definitely in WWII in London - my dad and his brother weren't evacuated, my nan wouldn't let them go

[CristinaaarghdellAaarghPizza]

I have had heated discussions about the rhyme and meter of the Tallest Giant in Town which just doesn't work on some of the pages

[LifeOfKate]

Captain Nancy - ooo, I also had Alfie's mum down as a social worker too :o

TotemPole - I didn't notice that part when I was a child. I was, however, very slightly concerned that Sophie was allowed to go outside in her nightie! In wellies, no less! What is it with inappropriately dressed children in these stories

[festivalwidow]

M&S had a book '10 wriggly caterpillars' a while ago:
"4 wriggly caterpillars met a bird in a tree. One stayed to sing, and then there were 3.."
Stayed to sing?? Caterpillars can't sing, and in any case all four of them would have been eaten on the spot by any bird worth its salt.
'What the ladybird heard' also has the goose saying 'hiss' which confuses my one year old. Don't geese say 'honk'?
Kate, I just snored for the 'zzzzz' in Rabbit's Nap, which makes it scan a bit better...
Love this thread. The gnu in the Grumpalump made me a little too..

[mousyfledermaus]

geese make a funny sound which is sort of similar to saying honk whilst drawing the breath in iyswim.
keep them coming, I might print out this tread and take it to the next library visit and if the dc want anything that is mentioned here I shall not let them have it
:o

[mousyfledermaus]

oh, and if you annoy a goose it will go hiss. and then it will bite you and hit you with their wings.

[GiraffeAHolic]

Can't believed no one has mentioned 'Bye Bye Baby'.

I mean, really, just why?

How you can you be a 'mummy with no baby' even if you do roam the streets with an empty pram and have all the necessary baby paraphernalia at home?

and how does the baby get in the cot by itself and more to the point, who owns the baby's house??

Plus it's impossible to read with pregnancy hormones floating around

[festivalwidow]

True re: hissing geese. Perhaps, then, the goose on the farm was permanently annoyed? Was the pen too small for it? Was it (perhaps justifiably) jealous of the duck for having the pond all to itself? There's a whole sub-plot here that begs examination....

Zagazou is completely illogical, but brilliantly accurate in a way - I'm prepared to accept the baby turning up in a parcel for the fact he turns into a vulture with piercing shrieks that were even worse at night.

ByeBye Baby sounds terribly traumatic!