Textbook deus ex machina ending.

An inane, contrived story. They suddenly decide to move to a larger apartment. The end.
Textbook deus ex machina ending.
An inane, contrived story. They suddenly decide to move to a larger apartment. The end.
Mostly innocuous but uninteresting.
A highly repetitive book, which is par for the course from Margaret Wise Brown. Every single animal in the frigging world is going to sleep.
Repetitive, overly simplistic pointless robbery book.
There's no real point. Pretty much everything is interchangeable. The characters are interchangeable. The plot points could have happened in any order.
Basically half a book about political responsibility.
Huh? I'm so confused. It's like they didn't even care enough to finish the book.
Unnecessary explicit preposition instruction.
Well, that was a complete lack of a story. This is from a time when people thought that you had to explicitly teach people these things. You don't!
Even the king makes mistakes.
It really supports the idea of swallowing your pride and apologizing, accepting the blame for something. I really like that message.
Mama flips out.
Maybe they could have a more natural consequence, like not being able to find what they're looking for, or falling over things that have been left in the middle of the floor. That happens too, and that could be a realistic consequence instead of Mama making threats because she's being taking advantage of as a parent.
Catch fish. Eat fish. Repeat.
It's descriptive. The pictures are all line drawings, very simple, with not a lot of detail. There's also not a lot of detail in the story.
Mixture of accurate information and inaccurate.
The doctor prescribes Papa some medicine for his cold, which is not a thing that exists. There is no medicine that gets prescribed for colds. They're viruses, not bacteria. But, hey.
Odd imaginative journey to the ocean.
It's kind of weird. I've known kids to be into animals and possibly boats, but being into the ocean itself is kind of strange.