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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."
Yes, Busy, Busy World is excellent. Each page has to much to look at.
I just don't get why it's out of print (when I don't think his other stuff is). If you check Amazon (where the lowest current price for a used edition is $60), it's clearly popular.
Thanks, y'all! That gives me some ideas to work with. I take Annabel to the library with me every Saturday, and while I let her pick 2 or 3 books from the children's section all on her own, I like to put a book or two on hold for her, too, just to be sure we actually go home with at least one book that reads aloud well. Also, Annabel thinks it's cool to have books waiting on the holds shelf, just like Mommy.
I'm a fan of the classics:
I don't know whether it would qualify as "picture" (it certainly isn't a chapter book), or if it's even still in print, but I remember Amelia Bedelia very fondly. And the story revolves around wordplay, which is very Buffista.
Fred, that reminds me of The King Who Rained, which is all homophones.
Amelia Bedelia is definitely still around, and is usually shelved at bookstores with the most basic of chapter books. When I was Waldenbooks, we had AB in the same section as the Boxcar Children books.
I just don't get why it's out of print (when I don't think his other stuff is).
But, ack, they've "updated" it! It's all weird. Look how politically correct!
That's the Word book, Busy, Busy World is different. The stories each take place with different characters in different cities: Pip Pip in London, Pierre the Paris Policeman, Couscous the Algerian Detective, the Klondike Kid, etc.
As the mother of a daughter who loves books with action, and has a hard time finding girls starring in the above, thus leading to the time-honored tradition of "George is a girl in this one" (hey, I have books where you can see where I altered the genders to my liking as a kid), I approve of the changes in the book.
(I didn't actually WANT her reading Curious George, as I have Issues with the colonialist aspect of it, but she inherited a bunch of them.)
Annabel bends the genders all on her own--at least, when she plays with her castle and all the toy horses she's named after herself and her classmates, Annabel-Horse gets to be the king. The first time I saw her do this, I said something about how a queen is a girl king, but she said, no, Annabel was the king, and I decided that was just fine.
I approve of the changes in the book.
Oh, yeah, some of them are fine. Some of them are just weird, though.