Fred, that reminds me of The King Who Rained, which is all homophones.
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."
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.
The yellow ribbons are my favorite.
Right? Instant girl!
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