Various Children's books...
...which are funny for the wrong reasons.

I work with books, I get to see a lot of books which bring children to terms with difficult topics. Unfortunately they tend to get clumped under the category 'picture book' and are discovered by accident, usually by the child.

They are a good thing I guess, but I still like to laugh at them.

Like -

Mum and Dad Glue
amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0340957107
Which is all in verse and has the classic line 'they're breaking up, they're breaking, it's all because of me'.

I forget the title but one is showing people with disabilities are still people - important lesson. Unfortunately it just repeats things like 'look at me, in my chair, look at me in my special chair'.

And then there is the holocaust...
So many kids books about the holocaust with various takes.
Some place the situation away from the war e.g. have a child trying to grow a plant from the other side of a fence. Others are just brutal and have very nicely drawn pictures of Nazis lining up Jewish children who have their hands on their head. Imagine a child going through books and trying to decide if 'Spot goes to the circus' will make a better book than 'Nazi child killers'.
(MrTeapot hasn't played with himself since, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 18:56, 1 reply)

Dr Dog
is a superlative example due to the "grandad's dangerous gases" section. Beats adult fiction in so many respects.
(gearanach #wankwankwank, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 20:17, closed)