Bedtime reading has been a special pleasure lately with this beautiful Alice and Jerry Reader (a 1957 edition) that I managed to get my hands on recently.
It could be argued that the yawn index/ knockout rate of a bedtime story is actually inversely proportionate to how engaging it is, and therefore its success as a bedtime story is actually a damning critique, but I'm going to hold up the fact that a child is willing and eager to listen to them in the first place as the "do not pass Go" point that it's already successfully negotiated.
Little injustices- one's mother not letting one have a dog despite the whole world and its neighbour having one, little terrors- a gift of a pony that one is too frightened to ride- these are the sort of everyday troubles that our young protagonists face and surmount with a combination of pluck and luck.
The illustrations are beautiful- see below. Click on a picture to scroll through in more detail.
It could be argued that the yawn index/ knockout rate of a bedtime story is actually inversely proportionate to how engaging it is, and therefore its success as a bedtime story is actually a damning critique, but I'm going to hold up the fact that a child is willing and eager to listen to them in the first place as the "do not pass Go" point that it's already successfully negotiated.
Little injustices- one's mother not letting one have a dog despite the whole world and its neighbour having one, little terrors- a gift of a pony that one is too frightened to ride- these are the sort of everyday troubles that our young protagonists face and surmount with a combination of pluck and luck.
The illustrations are beautiful- see below. Click on a picture to scroll through in more detail.
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