At Bitch PhD, Sybil worries that we all do not Twitter.
Right now, I worry that those of you who don't do twitter are perhaps missing a twitter trend and, more importantly, B's enthusiastic participation in it: failed children's books titles. I'd hate for you to miss these gems:
The Little Engine that Warmed Up The Whole World
Harold and the Purple Thing
How to Kill a Mockingbird
Pride and Prejudice: The Story of Pat Robertson
The Scarlet Letter and Other Cautionary Tales for Abstinence-Only Education
Now pop over to the blog to see rest of the list of gems and have a few laughs.
Thanks to that rascally Paul (A.) for the link.
Oh yes, this was a lot of fun. I tried my hand at a few yesterday:
ReplyDeletePat the Playboy Bunny: A Touch and Feel book
The Little Engine that Crashed
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Life
Daddy's Dungeon: A Pop-up Book
Goldilocks and the Bear Market
Frog and Toad Are Very Special Friends
Are You There God? It's Me, Richard Dawkins
I always wondered about Frog and Toad. Bad Alice clears it up for me.
ReplyDeleteAlice, excellent.
ReplyDeleteBelieve it or not, there is, or was, a pop-up sex education book for teens. I ordered it for the library where I worked by mistake, not knowing that it was a pop-up book. Trust me that the male member page was startling. I'm not kidding!
Paul - Glad to be of help. The homoerotic subtext fairly leaps off the page, don't you think?
ReplyDeleteGrandmere - Oh surely you jest. That is just too odd. Do you think we could find it on ebay?
Alice, I'm not joking. Unfortunately, I can't remember the title. Pop-up books don't work well in public libraries. They get destroyed quickly. Imagine what would have happened to this one. We shelved the book behind the desk and offered it to parents who asked for material for sex education for teens, but we had no takers, and it ended up being used primarily for amusement by the staff during slow periods.
ReplyDeleteIt's been many years, Alice, but yes, a certain aura of friendship lingers in my memory.
ReplyDeleteMimi, you've confirmed my belief that librarians are really very naughty. (Well, the ones I know are, anyway.)
Paul, we were naughty. And didn't we wait expectantly for reactions as the parents flipped through the book, before handing it back to us with a "No, thank you. I don't think so."
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