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.

Also, sleeping bunnies "They're so still, are they ill?" I would have thought that illness would merit them thrashing around uncomfortably, and the bunnies are actually more likely to have perished. "So still in bed, are they dead" anyone? [hgrin]

Venetia would it be:

"so still in bed, are they dead?"

followed by:

"resurrect little bunnies!"

They appear to be in stasis ... do they have myxomatosis...

Unless the sausages were laced with gunpowder, the bang/pop would probably just be the skin splitting, in which case all ten sausages would remain inside the pan. If they did contain gunpowder, all 10 sausages, the pan and probably the hob and most of the kitchen would be destroyed.

We sing 10-8-6-4-2-0. Makes the song quicker!

Or or...

One sleeps
One doses
One is dead from myxomatosis

Crying with laughter at 'resurrect little bunnies' :o

I don't think DS could manage 'myxomatosis', sorry. He is currently calling Elmer an 'effelant' :o

Playgroup song

"She's a leopard, She's a leopard
And she's covered in spots
But if she had stripes
She'd be a tiger"

Um no, not unless she was also a completely different species

at "Still in bed, are they dead?"

nickelbabe, you are no better than the local drug pusher, I tell you!

I am so glad other get annoyed at the lack of ladybird on the first and last pages. DS is only 14mo so he hasn't noticed yet, but I certainly have!

Has anyone explained what is the plot hole in Megs Vag Veg? I thought she magics up some seeds and they grow into lots of veg, the end?

The pages tend to fall out of Meg and Mog books really easily so perhaps the plot hole is just a missing page.

This thread is hilarious.
I did wonder where those ladybirds were...

actuallym, have to sy, I'm disappointed in the It's My Birthday book by Rod Campbell - along the lines of Dear Zoo, and the best present at hte end is a kitten (or something, can't remember!)
and of course, it's the best pressie.

you're not supposed to give pets for presents because it doesn't show responsibility
(as in "a dog is for life not just for christmas" )

I loathed Dear Zoo. And in fact all of Rod Campbell, but especially Buster's Day. Who is this weird unsupervised toddler?

DP used to get cross with The Tiger Who Came To Tea, because you CANNOT DRINK ALL THE WATER IN THE TAP! He used to always add which is not possible after that line.

sorry bartlett :(

I have difficulty reading out loud anyway, so anything I read sounds stilted and wrong (but I do change things once I've readthem if I think they're wrong)

my poor unborn child is going to be the most pedantic child in the world.

I like Dear Zoo but at "I'm Not Scary". What is that all about?! I don't want DS to be scared of spiders. Who will remove them for me if DH isn't there?

DS's favourite book for months was a Dolly Parton reading scheme one called Baby's Bathtime. I would like to point out that 'wash, wash, wash' does not rhyme with 'spish, splash, splash'. As 'splish' isn't a real word, why didn't they just make the last one 'splosh'? I always change it.

I always anglicise 'I looked out the window' in the Popcorn song too.

Oh yes, Daddy comes home and says 'I know what we'll do: we'll put on our coats and go to a cafe', doesn't he?

Of its time, I suppose.

oh yes to the butterfly wings in the H.C.
Artists do seem to be astonishingly ignorant of basic science (or observational skills).

My biggest annoyance is the moon the wrong way round! How many times (in adult art as well) do you see an evening moon that is C-shaped? It's the other way round!!!!! (Well it is in the northern hemisphere)

Close behind it is the other thing artists don't seem to be able to observe correctly. Rainbows! OK, all together now, red on the outside, NOT the inside!!! (It's only the other way round on the secondary).

And then there's the rainbows with the sun parked in them. Er... they have to be on the opposite side of the sky...

dislike the lauren child books that randomly read across 2 pages horizontally, then switch back to the normal left side then right side.

Even when I am familiar with the stories I always fluff it up.

agree the loop the loop text pisses me off too, trying to calm child down to sleep not whizz book round with squinty eyes

the moon is C shaped when it's in its last quarter.

How many times (in adult art as well) do you see an evening moon that is C-shaped?
half of the month actually... when the moon is moving towards new-moon

I always thought mummy in The Tiger Who Came To Tea was on the pop and it was she who drank all daddy's beer and was subsequently too drunk to go shopping, pay the water rates and so concocted the Tiger story as a cover for why the house was in such a state.