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Best. Word book. Ever. Revised & updated.

3 Comments Published January 5th, 2007 in Kid lit, Miscellaney.

Richard Scarry’s Best Word Book Ever delighted my sister and me when we were little, and it’s continuing to see a lot of action our kids’ generation, too. But after wiping the dust off my memories about the book, I find a fascinating time capsule of popular culture, some of it charming, some not [...]

Sometimes an elephant may not be an elephant

0 Comments Published July 13th, 2006 in Kid lit, Miscellaney.

Color-your-own Babar family, courtesy L. de Brunhoff.
Okay, so what was I doing not knowing that the dear, beloved Babar stories open with (a) the shooting death of his mother, and roll onward inexorably toward (b) the poison mushroom-induced death of the King of the Elephants, and (c) the marriage of Babar to his cousin [...]

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