Isn't now your window for "Go The Fuck To Sleep"?
That's beautiful. Or taken literally, incredibly gross.
Buffy ,'Potential'
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."
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.
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
information libertarian
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.
Sparky1 - Sep 13, 2019 6:13:25 am PDT #25461 of 28197
Librarian Warlord
Fish Eyes and Feathers for Lunch were popular in our house. Those graphics made K's eyes go wide.
We ended every reading session with the same book (Goodnight Moon, sorry) so she knew it was over.
Gris - Sep 13, 2019 6:53:21 am PDT #25462 of 28197
Hey. New board.
Where the Wild Things Are. Also second goodnight construction site and steam train dream train. Those would make good "end the reading session" kind of books. Also second any and all Sandra Boynton.
Consuela - Sep 13, 2019 7:59:36 pm PDT #25463 of 28197
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
There was a radio program that read aloud the Just So Stories about 30 years ago, and I can still remember the sound of Jack Nicholson saying "the great green greasy Limpopo River".
Beverly - Sep 13, 2019 10:52:18 pm PDT #25464 of 28197
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Orson Welles did VO for a 1975 cartoon Rikki Tikki Tavi--nobody says "the great grey-green greasy Limpopo River" like Orson Welles. June Foray did about half the rest of the voices.
To be honest, I thought it was all fiction, and when watching a tv documentary and the narrator mentioned the "Limpopo river" I realized there IS an actual Limpopo river. But it doesn't seem real unless you add the "great grey-green greasy" part.
Sue - Sep 14, 2019 2:12:35 am PDT #25465 of 28197
hip deep in pie
There was a radio program that read aloud the Just So Stories about 30 years ago, and I can still remember the sound of Jack Nicholson saying "the great green greasy Limpopo River".
This was available as an album. It's Jack Nicholson and Bobby McFerrin and it's so great. The rest of the album is Bobby McFerrin doing his thing IIRC.
ETA: You Tube has everything [link]