Dorothy Kunhardt is famous for writing Pat the Bunny. She also wrote More Please, which we discovered via Baguette’s speech therapist and may be the most maddening thing we own.
Baguette calls it “Make a Doggie.” I’m not sure why, because you don’t do that. You “feed” tiny pieces of posterboard shaped and colored like various items into the die-cut mouths of animals.
From a technical standpoint, I’m impressed. This was not easy to create.
From a parental standpoint, ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME????
The tiny pieces of posterboard are really tiny. Every time we read this book (and when it’s in rotation, I’m talking four or five times a day), I have to do an inventory of the parts. The text is maddeningly simplistic and sing-song. And the illustrations are just bad.
But Baguette loves it, and it definitely plays into her affection for animals.
Oh, and if you lose any of those tiny pieces? Yeah, I can’t find a replacement for less than $65 (a month ago, that price was $150). Hence the inventory.
If I didn’t like that speech therapist so much, I’d feel like she owes us an apology.
That book drove me absolutely bonkers — all of the pieces have gone missing, and yeah, thankfully, it’s no longer in the rotation. But, if the kids asked for it consistently, I’d be reading it daily. And finding the stupid replacement kits on eBay.
We’re on at least the fourth rotation on this. Just when you think something is gone for good, she asks for it.
Haha now I’m curious about this book! Never heard of it though at least I heard of Pat the Bunny. Even flap books drive me nuts so I can imagine I’d feel the same about this one.
Soooooooo much worse than a flap book.