Weird Children’s Books
When you are like me and read strange magazines, such as License!, you discover that there are weird children’s books out there. Like Skippyjon Jones. He is a Siamese cat, whose ears are too big for his head, his head is too big for his body and he thinks he’s a Chihuahua. And on top he has a group of imaginary Chihuahua friends. And he says “Holy Guacamole!!”
It won an award, so it must be healthy for children to read. But isn’t this just anthropomorphism gone mad?
That’s going on my Christmas list for my God daughter.
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Thanks for the info. I see Bayard’s have got themselves a guest illustrator for one of their stories in the September edition of Storybox – award winning illustrator Helen Oxenbury, who also provided illustrations for Alice in Wonderland – StoryBoxBooks
PDenby
July 9, 2008 at 6:33 pm