Yeah, I've seen the released version, and that won't work for me. Sadly, the in-universe book might, but does not seem to exist.
Book: I believe I just... I think I'm on the wrong ship. Inara: Maybe. Or maybe you're exactly where you ought to be.
'Serenity'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
DebetEsse - Sep 12, 2019 2:40:25 pm PDT #25451 of 28197
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Connie Neil - Sep 12, 2019 2:46:59 pm PDT #25452 of 28197
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Bugrit, millennium hand and shrimp!
Kate P. - Sep 12, 2019 3:02:46 pm PDT #25453 of 28197
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Our bedtime go-to for years was Ten, Nine, Eight by Molly Bang. Pajama Time by Sandra Boynton is great too.
sj - Sep 12, 2019 3:26:57 pm PDT #25454 of 28197
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Good Night Good Night Construction Site, Dream Animals, and Goodnight Pirates.
Amy - Sep 12, 2019 4:22:00 pm PDT #25455 of 28197
Because books.
We loved Moo, Baa, La La La and pretty much anything by Sandra Boynton.
aurelia - Sep 12, 2019 4:39:00 pm PDT #25456 of 28197
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Isn't now your window for "Go The Fuck To Sleep"?
DavidS - Sep 12, 2019 6:01:40 pm PDT #25457 of 28197
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Goodnight Gorilla - Peggy Rathman
Jamberry - Bruce Degan
Bunny Planet books - Rosemary Wells
Ten Apples Up On Top - Dr. Seuss
Polka Bats and Octopus Slacks - Calef Brown
The Sailor Dog - Margaret Wise Brown/Garth Williams
Wig - the B-52s/Laura Levine
DebetEsse - Sep 12, 2019 7:25:10 pm PDT #25458 of 28197
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Thanks for the recs. I'm working on trying to create a sleep routine that won't always be built around The Boob, so thinking of having one particular book, and Go the Fuck to Sleep won't work once kiddo has some language.
flea - Sep 13, 2019 1:08:23 am PDT #25459 of 28197
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Some excellent recs (I LOVE Goodnight Gorilla and Jamberry especially), to which I'd add Brown Bear Brown Bear what do you see which I read out loud nightly from about four months.
bennett - Sep 13, 2019 5:43:22 am PDT #25460 of 28197
When I was a kid, my mom read to us from a picture book version of Kipling's "The Just So Stories". I still remember "the great grey-green greasy Limpopo river all set about with fever trees" and "the cat who walked by himself and all places were alike to him". I think those were as close to children's books as she could bear to read out loud on a regular basis.