Dear Zoo needs a rewrite

[fuffymeloncauli]

Why are all the animals male?
"I wrote to the zoo to send me a pet." Is this gramatically correct?

Does someone have too much time on their hands?

The male animals are the only ones that are allowed to speak, silly billy!!!

I was always more concerned that it showed pets as being disposable.

That did bug me, I used to read some of them as male and some as female. The kids had no idea, they couldn't read it!

Yes and so what if the camel is having a bad day

Think of the postage cost of sending them all back!

Awesome book!

I alternate them when I read it - but do two male and then two female in a row so the grumpy camel is male and the perfect puppy is female.

Really? Your issue is the male characters and not the whole that's not how a zoo works?

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Yes and so what if the camel is having a bad day"

To be honest, I don't want to share a house with a camel having a bad day.....

I wasn't fond of the fact that my DC assumed we were getting a puppy every time we read it.

My DS used to add "and sad" to the camel being too grumpy.

Don't get me started on The Tiger Who Came to Tea.

But I agree about Dear Zoo too.

You mean I can't phone them up and ask them to evri a giraffe to my house?

I assumed free returns within 28 days as they've clearly paid for the delivery subscription!

Yes it's gramatically correct

Daddy's home!

@fuffymeloncauli "
You mean I can't phone them up and ask them to evri a giraffe to my house
You wouldn't be in. Even though you were.

😂

The inconsistencies in the stories bug me.

Blooming Goodnight Moon does not mention the socks and clock the first time round but then he says goodnight to them?! What an inconsistent little bunny (though the book never mentions that he is a rabbit).

This was my DC1's favourite book for a while so we've read it a million times. One time I remember mulling over the question of whether, rather than Mummy being singularly stupid and therefore unable to solve the problem of having no food in the house post-tiger visit, there wasn't some covert economic abuse going on here - silly Mummy couldn't possibly authorise a trip out to a cafe without the head of the family's say-so!

This is exactly what I used to do.

I emailed the zoo to send me a pet
They sent me .... an alligator!
But they used Evri and the parcel was left out in the rain, its skin has shrunk
So I sent it back

I emailed the zoo to send me a pet
They sent me ... a dog
But it was an XL bully
So I sent it back

I emailed the zoo to send me a pet
They emailed back to offer me a penguin experience at £200 per person and child must be accompanied by an adult
It was too expensive due to the cost of living crisis
So I unsubscribed!

The End

My sons used to have a book that said some shit like, “the farmer” plants the barley.

Then it went onto describe how….

The farmer’s “wife” harvests the barley.

Is she not a fucking farmer, too?! Or is she just a ‘wife’?!!

I think the mum in the tiger that came to tea was an alcoholic with the tiger being the story she made up for not having food and drink in the house. The kid and dad just went along with it because no-one wanted to face reality.