First, did you ever know that some children's books have one line summaries on the copyright page? They're really hilarious - at least I find them funny. They sound like a lawyer summarizing stories about muffins and llamas. Reading them is my new favorite library activity...
Some favorites include:
If You Give a Moose a Muffin: Chaos can ensue if you give a moose a muffin and start him on a cycle of urgent requests.
Llama Llama Mad at Mama: A young llama wants to play but must go shopping with his mother instead, and so he gets angry and makes a mess at the store.
Bear Snores On: On a cold winter night many animals gather to party in the cave of a sleeping bear, who then awakes and protests that he has missed the food and the fun.
Goodnight Moon: Goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room: goodnight chairs, goodnight comb, goodnight air.
Skippyjon Jones: Skippyjon Jones is a Siamese cat with an overactive imagination who would rather be El Skippito, his Zorro-like alter ego.
Second, if Make Way for Ducklings' Mr. Mallard pulled his little "I want to go explore the rest of the river and leave you with our 8 babies" stunt in this household - he'd probably not have any tailfeathers, or an ability to have future children. And we certainly wouldn't be meeting him a week later all happy to see him. Luckily my girls have no real concept of gender roles since they have a stay at home daddy (for 4 more weeks!) who does the laundry... and bakes.
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We have "Is your Mama a Llama?" and "Llama Llama, Red Pajama"...but we hadn't yet seen "Llama, Llama, Mad at Mama" We'll have to go get that one...wonder, does Little Llama spit, like our Stormy and Pansy do to us when they are mad?
Dev reads skippy jon jones and while i thought Skippy was cute-ish, i always wondered WHAT he was- taco bell dog or cat. i guess he's a cat! thanks for clearing it up!
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