To not let DD read Dear Zoo?

[SantanaLopez]

I am a hormonal and sleep deprived woman under the influence of PFB... but it's really not very nice to send animals back to the zoo, or in fact to keep them there in the first place!

Ok- but don't say I didnmt warn you.........www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0744578361/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_0MPXub0HHB0JT

Once you start reading dear zoo, you won't stop. It doesn't get better after the thirteenth consecutive read

Oh god, I loved Dear Zoo. And That's Not My Lion. Memories of when my great big 13 year old was a 1 year old PFB

Dear Zoo is one of Ds's favourite books! He has started waving his arms whilst making "Oooo Oooo" noises at the monkey now! I am getting slightly bored of it as he always likes it read several times in succession! And he is also the proud owner of "That's not my penguin"- yes i also thought there was something strange about only recognising your penguin by its baby- what if the baby had wandered off or something- would you not be able to find your penguin! (overthinking slightly......)

YABU. It was one of the first books we got DS and he loves it (more than the blasted 'That's Not My Repetative Idea' books thankfully). The snake is 'scaley' in our house

I love dear zoo, it's my favourite teeny person book, especially as i know all the words so i can 'read' it in bed with my eyes closed! it's also available on the iPad for when she's going mental on long car journeys...

Also love peepo. Beautiful, beautiful book.

Glad to know it's not just me who gets annoyed at the complete lack of any female animals. I randomly make some of the animals female whenever I read it. And now the 3 year old is starting to get into fairytales I've started switching the gender of characters sometimes, so the helpless prince is rescued by the exciting adventurous princess or similar. Though as a republican maybe I should alos be ditching the whole prince/process thing!

I add a post-script "then he pooed everywhere and we had to clean it up ewww stinky". win win!

Here's my PFB nutter side coming out again (is it a full moon?!) but is it okay to switch words? Will I screw up DD's reading if I do that? Should I book myself into therapy ASAP?

I'm another who finds the fact that all the animals are male really irritating, so I say 'she was too..(whatever)..I sent her back" for every other one.

Otherwise I like it, not too wordy and good for learning animal names and their noises.

Generally there are soooo many books that use male as the default gender, much like real life I suppose.....sigh.

Isn't your DD just a baby?! Or am I misremembering....

Anyway, yes, check yourself into the booby hatch because you've gorn quaite mad!

I've got baby twins and a toddler DD :) explains the madness

To avoid any problems with the DC ever wanting a pet as a result of Dear Zoo, I always add "cuddly" before "dog"... And then had to do the same in the birthday one too.

I realised I'd read the "That's Not..." books too many times when I was on mat leave with DC2 and, whilst waiting to meet a friend for coffee" kept thinking "that's not my friend, her coat is the wrong colour", "that's not my friend, her hair is too short" etc

I used to do it on the bear hunt book! Switching the odd word - they loved it!! Oh God - how I miss those days of bedtime stories (except ' You Choose ' which was the work of beezlebub)

OP the day they point out that you've read it wrong you'll be so proud :). Our copy actually has 'scary' crossed out and 'slithery' written in

I'd forgotten about the gender issue. It wound me up, but the book's about 25 years old and we do insist on buying it still. An update is overdue. Just as well PP is on it.

Yep - book yourself in for book therapy!

Some of the books were so dire I just had to change the words, to entertain myself. DS loved it as I'd usually get as vulgar as I dared . Or I'd tell people off for being naughty. I think it did get DS more involved and excited by books, and keen to come up with his own stories to the pictures.

I LOVE Peepo. The father is the spitting image of my Grandfather and I now smile and weep a little bit every time we read it.

While we're on the That's not my... books, how did one mouse come to own all that shit in the first place? A bear, a pony, a car, a mermaid, a dragon, a baby, a tractor etc etc. Surely he's some kind of criminal involved in trafficking and God knows what else. Fucking deviant mouse.

I hate with a passion the 'That's not my...' Series. That's not my 'whatever' its 'whatever' is/are too 'whatever'...

Yes, of course, the are the wrong colour, that was the give away... Not the overall size, shape, colour.....arghhhhhhhhhhh

If you don't send animals back to the zoo where they're locked away and safe you get the terrifying narrow escape that 'We're Going On A Bear Hunt' recounts.

So YABU.

Dear Zoo annoys me irrationally (or maybe not so!) so I'm glad I found this thread

The "I Won't Bite" book pisses me off too, totally not sensible to teach a child that various animals won't bite them!

Dear Zoo is brilliant. I think I may have changed he to it sometimes, though.

My teenagers can still recite the whole of Each Peach Pear Plum, as well as large sections of Peepo.

Dear zoo is fine. It's Guess How Much I Love You that needs banning. Fecking Big Nut Brown Hare and his obsessive one upmanship.

Cleaning the kids room this weekend what did I find under their bookshelf? Yep that fecking book. I forgot I hid it there on purpose and now I'm having to read it.