Spring semester officially starts today, so as a warm-up for what’s likely to be four months of briefer blog posts, here’s a website recommendation:
“Curious Pages: Recommended Inappropriate Books for Kids” (Thanks to Very Short List for the tip.)
The commentary is hilarious – the labels are particularly brilliant – and it makes me think I should switch from memoir to children’s books. That would be more fun, don’t you think? Because if the books on this website are any indication, I could still get away with talking about sexuality and bad dads, as long as there were cartoon pigs.
Enjoy the weekend, everyone.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
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5 comments:
Thank you for that. Hilarious!
Now, am I the only one who thinks that you keep looking for excuses not to finish the memoir?
What does is say that we have a number of these books? The Stupids are one of our favorite families!
o-mi-god, deonne. this list is my favorite find of weeks, if not months. Ironically (or not) one of these books WAS one of my favorite books when i was a child- The Gashlycrumb Tinies, which included things like an alphabet rhyme which tallied (and illustrated, in detail) various ways children died- ie, "A is for Annie, Who Fell Down The Stairs, B is for Basil, eaten by bears...." how sick is it that i still remember the rhyme? let's see, "C is for Clara, who wasted away, D is for Desmond, done in by a sleigh, E is for Ernest, who choked on a peach, F is for Frank, sucked dry by a leech..." o god, i'm scaring myself, i think i could recite the whole thing...
lisa-in-taos
Great List of books for a book lover like myself.
So glad you all liked it! It's my new favorite.
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