I'm not even sure why he's made out of a gourd.
It kind of requires a little bit of mental gymnastics to get to that point, otherwise it basically ends up with the message of, "Everybody is an idiot."
Everybody is confined by their own horizons.
So when does she get to join the Freemasons?
It's pretty. It's not a bad book, it's just there's no real message to it. It's just telling the story of something that happened to these people.
Stonecutting is TOO an art!
This little bunny went, “Wee, wee, wee!” all the way home.
There's no point to this, no message, and no reason for its existence. It's not even bad enough to say anything interesting about.
None.
Oh, yeah? Measure this, pal!
There's a message and kind of a moral here that both break down due to presentation in an anthropomorphic universe. You start wondering why exactly the birds are eating something as intelligent as they are, and whether that wouldn't be cruel, and you get into questions that you really weren't planning to get into while reading your toddler a board book.
People will threaten to kill you if you don't entertain them.
An apple in time saves before you leap.
The crocodiles are living in a house with wallpaper that is integral to the story. There's a baboon with an umbrella. Since the traditional Aesop's fables take place in ancient Greece, these are an interesting update to the formula. It's nontraditional to have camels wanting to be ballerinas.
Multiple messages, one per story.
Come on, bear. Google it. Caterpillars and moths.
It's using a very roundabout way to teach children that caterpillars turn into moths. It's cute that the bear keeps coming by to keep him company, but the caterpillar doesn't really seem to care, need company, or be thankful. It's kind of minimalist, but it could do with a little more character development, otherwise I don't really care about these characters.
Caterpillars turn into moths.
This baby is better-coordinated than I am.
It's cute how the parents eventually accept that the baby doesn't want to go to sleep and decide to enjoy the time together. As a book, though, it's pretty repetitive and would get old quickly. But it is short, so it's got that going for it.
None.
Back at it again with the white shoes!
It seems to have been a song before it was a book, and it certainly isn't great literature. It's not very interesting and the repetition would bore me if I had to read it more than once.
“No matter what you step in, keep walking along and singing your song... because it's all good.”
Old McDonald had a dance, cha cha cha cha cha.
Not bad, not great. Pretty classic Boynton. Nothing to be offended about, but nothing to be drawn to.
None.
Yeah, because we all keep our siblings in cages.
It really doesn't need to be a Native American story. It kind of makes me think a little bit of "My Side of the Mountain", except apparently this kid fails at raising a hawk. Baylor's text just goes on and on, using far more words than necessary to tell this story.
Don't kidnap wild animals, I guess?
