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January 11, 2007
Alternative Kids' Books
Lately, Finn is really fixated on one book in particular at bedtime. It's called Baby's Busy World and it includes a bunch of rhyming pages with pictures of babies doing a variety of different things.
As far baby books go, it's pretty inoffensive. Although it does have gratuituous use of exclamation points ("Helping out is lots of fun! Soon these jobs will all be done!"), it really could be worse in terms of cute overload. And it doesn't include the creepy rabbit lady from Goodnight Moon. But let's just say it doesn't come to life quite as vividly the 100th time you read it.
On this most excellent blog (Sweet Juniper), Dutch creates a creates a baby book out of the Beastie Boy's song Paul Revere. Now, any aging hipster parent who was in high school or college when this song came out would choose reading copy like "I grabbed two girlies and a beer that's cold" over "With a yum-yum-yum and a munch-munch-munch, baby's eating up his lunch!" on a night-to-night basis. It just holds up better, in my opinion.
Posted by lisa at January 11, 2007 09:52 AM
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