Baby Book Blurbs, If They Were Written for Novels
Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt
“Extraordinary…Rarely does a story touch the heart and finger at the same time…A thrilling and ambitious ode to fur, peek-a-boo, and sandpaper beards…A panoply of the senses.”
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
“Radiant…a lunar tour de force…This bunny’s taut, resonant voice will stay with you long after the lights go out… A necessary book for these nights…It will keep you wide awake in a rocking chair long after you’d rather be fast asleep in your own bed.”
A Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
“Tender. Harrowing. Thorough…A Very Hungry Caterpillar is dazzling in the way that all great stories are. Like One Hundred Years of Solitude, there are butterflies. Like The Sun Also Rises, there are cured meats. This is The Stranger for our times, just with much less murder and smoking and existentialist ennui.”
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault
“Utterly absorbing to the very last boom boom…A tale that refuses to be silenced…It will get you chanting and pissing off your colleagues…I loved it except for…A fine book.”
Look, It’s Hoot Hoot Owl by Camilla Reid
“Reid’s masterful hide and seek framework forever alters what it means to discover, although probably only if you are a toddler…Readers will remember the “squeak” of Squeak Squeak Mouse, the “munch” of Munch Munch Squirrel, the ‘ribbit’ of (I think you get the idea)…A story that says what we are all feeling, when microdosing.”
Corduroy by Don Freeman
“A triumph of fabric…As stories about department store teddy bears who are missing buttons go, an arresting narrative… Like live jazz, this is a work that takes a melody and plays it in such a way that you feel pressure to clap at the end.”
PSST! I Love You by Marjorie Blain Parker
“To read [PSST! I Love You] is to follow a trail of belonging that takes you closer and closer to that place you have always most wanted to go, maybe. It doesn’t really matter, actually. Either way, when you get there, you will start the journey over again, because the listeners of Parker’s story will demand it! …. Stunningly evocative for those with nascent cognitive and emotional development…Searing. The kind of work that makes you question the very essence of who you are and even wonder if the animal world and human world are really that different. Which means your soul might one day take animal form and stare back at the world unblinkingly as your feral heart pounds in its feral chest.”
Silly Sally by Audrey Wood
“Indelible…In Sally, Wood gives us a silliness that is both fearlessly simple and terrifyingly poignant…Who doesn’t want to go to town, no matter how backwards and upside down?…A piercing, and unsubtle treatment about that most important of topics—mobility…An unrelenting dedication to alliteration.”
Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman
“One of those grand achievements in letters that makes us ask the right questions, and even some wrong ones…An exquisitely masterful tale of identity and abandonment and egg hatching…Repetition at its finest.”
Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
“[Goodnight Gorilla] will utterly upend how you use RING…Every dream requires a vision. Every vision requires a visionary. When zoo animals participate in breaking and entering, that is something different…Peggy Rathmann’s masterpiece is nothing short of a beautifully woven tapestry about captivity, broken trust, and limited housing options…A metaphorically rich reconsideration of child-rearing. You will see your small children anew as lovable creatures who probably just need a little more attention and sleep training……A dark, absorbing tale of—wait. Shit. Wrong book blurb.”
Moo, Baa, La La La! by Sandra Boykin
“Simply put? Intoxicating.”
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