to really dislike it when picture books are just wrong?

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

In 'Humphrey's Family', in the picture illustrating Humphrey having tea with Granny, it isn't Humphrey it's Baby Jack.

In the "That's Not My Monkey" book, several of the monkeys are actually apes.

This really bothers me!

I always assumed that the seeds out of the cauldron in Meg's Veg were the ones responsible for the terrifying crop of weeds.

I mean, she is clearly quite incompetent so it's quite appropriate that her special seeds turn out to be entirely useless.

Hmm. Haberdashery I see your point. All that wasted energy fretting about it every time I read the book!

Fret no more, mumofthree!

My ultimate pet peeve is things like "Moo moo cow!" Instead of "The cow says "moooo" " My daughter has a farm book with lots of things like that! I hate it!!

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Kate and Totem, they were my favourite bits of the Tiger Who Came to Tea. How exciting to be allowed out for dinner in your nightie! And what an adventure not having any water in the taps!

Clearly I had a very dull, naive childhood...

Rod Campbell's 'I'm Not Scary' - with the repeated line of 'touch me, I'm not scary'. In my head, I always have to say it in a scary paedo voice (but obviously I read it in a normal mummy voice so not to give DS nightmares).

AblativeAbsolute re bear hunt, I always assumed they were all his children and the mum was away doing something boring like washing up or making tea. I have been known to get quite het up about how it is always daddy who gets to go on adventures.

paddypoopants completely agree about Maisy. Maisy goes to nursery and sleeps with Panda and yet bakes gingerbread and uses domestic cleaning products unsupervised .

I have chucked books that calls animals rubbish like 'doggy' and 'horsie'. It's 'dog' and 'horse'.

'Imagine giving every small child who wrote to the zoo a vast collection of totally unsuitable animals. What's a 1 year old going to do with a lion?!
'

In the true spirit of this thread (why yes, I do have a nit picky brain) how many one year old children an write a letter to a zoo?

Monkey Puzzle again. I also love the line 'Bigger than you? Then I've seen your mum'. A slightly sarcastic tone works wonders .

Ooh, another one that niggles DH - how is it that Miffy can walk to the seaside, take a bus to see her friend, cycle to her aunt Alice's and take a train to the zoo, but the nearest playground is an hour's drive away?

Baby Lamb

I am an illustrator and am painstakingly particular that things are accurate (even though I draw in a very loose style) I don't always give people the right number of fingers mind you.

But, but...

The female in Bear Hunt is the mum, surely?

Has anyone mentioned the pictures which show polar bears and penguins in the same icy landscape?

Maisy makes Gingerbread - no she doesn't, with those ingredients she makes a caca revolting mess.

Sorry if this has been mentioned, narks me so much I couldn't read whole thread!

Blu the film of The Snowman does this too. Grrr.

Rhubarbgarden - we have that and I could never work it out either!

I always thought it was a deliberate attempt to convince sleep deprived mothers that they had lost all powers of rational thought

We have a cloth book about dinosaurs that has on the pterodactyl page: "Pteradodactyl swoops and soars above the other dinosaurs". Dh loathes it and always leaves out the "other".

Am very proud that ds reads Rumble in the Jungle as "Beware of the terrible tiger (although he shouldn't be here as he doesn't live in Africa), you don't always know when he's near..."

Isn't a Pteradodactyl a dinosaur then? I always thought it was....just a flying one...

No. It was a flying reptile, not a dinosaur (or so dh tells me - waits for paleontologist to come along and tell me I'm wrong...).