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    Wednesday
    Nov252009

    When kids books get a little too obscure

    ("Aaannhh-urgh! Aaannhh-urgh!" pretty much sums up how I've been feeling lately. "Aaannhh-urgh! Aaannhh-urgh!", you guys.)

    Reader Comments (28)

    LOVE it!! I have been reading to my 4 month old as much as possible...and sometimes I just have to make stuff up because the book just doesn't make sense. Thankfully she doesn't know the difference - yet!

    Happy Hump Day!!

    ~Working Mommy
    Come on by, stay for a while and leave a comment or two!

    November 25, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterWorking Mommy

    Okay, so I've never even heard of a Gerenuk. Does my kid really need to know what that is? I'm all for providing a variety of culture to my kid, but really?

    November 25, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterKatherine

    I'm with Katherine what is a Gerenuk is that one of those combo animals like labadoddle?

    November 25, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterFrau

    Why isn't your child being sucked into a DVD!?

    November 25, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterkyooty

    See this is why my kids will tell me a story about school and it will make no sense. "Today we read a story about a gerenuk and an animal that goes Aaannhh-urgh!" See? Gibberish!

    November 25, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterCassie

    whatever happened to giraffes and chickens?

    November 25, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJenni

    ..those are just wierd.

    November 25, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterobladi oblada

    I'm not into the offbeat children's books. Some of them are really reaching to "teach" when kids just want to look at pictures and repeat the same thing over and over.

    November 25, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJennifer

    Seriously...somebody got paid to create that masterpiece.

    November 25, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterK

    I think I just came up with a book idea.

    November 25, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterBeautifulWreck

    X is two - Aannhh - urg! is the one phrase he's got down already.....

    November 25, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterFoN

    What the gerenuk is that thing?

    Aannhhurg!

    November 25, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJames (SeattleDad)

    I've popped over here a few times from Otin's blog. That was a great post, yeah sometimes I don't get it either. Luckily, my kids are reading on their own now so I don't have to try to decipher the books anymore.

    November 25, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterKate Hanley

    I've popped over here a few times from Otin's blog. That was a great post, yeah sometimes I don't get it either. Luckily, my kids are reading on their own now so I don't have to try to decipher the books anymore.

    November 25, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterKate Hanley

    WTF was that? LMAO!!! Maybe I could get published! LOL

    November 25, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterotin

    And you know somebody thought that was just the best, most innovative idea. Hmmm...

    November 25, 2009 | Unregistered Commentergretchen

    Hmm, animals going in for some jungle sexing? WTH? Ok, maybe that's not what you meant.

    I bought this book called Olivia's Opposites way back before I had kids since I was drunk in a store and it seemed kind of dirty to me. Now I read that stupid book to my kids all the time.

    November 25, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterCasey

    Aaannhh-urgh you!

    November 26, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterCaptain Dumbass

    I can reach up high like the Ger..uh...antelope thingy. But I can't touch my toes. That makes me say "Aaannhh-urgh!"

    November 26, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterMad Woman

    oh lord there are some horrid kids books out there. Do they think kids will like anything? What about the poor parents who have to read them? Gah.

    November 26, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterH.E.Eigler

    Sounds like a book I would "accidentally" lose. I do that quite a bit, as we've acquired some real duds!

    November 26, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterScary Mommy

    Very weird. I'm still feeling sorry for the moose in the dumpster too. Sigh. I may need to move west - you guys got way more interesting shit out there than us.

    November 26, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterLeanne

    I agree. Aaannhh-urgh!

    November 27, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterRaven

    Wow... it makes you long for the good old days of "Little Critter," doesn't it?

    It seems that kids books are now more about quantity than quality...

    November 27, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterHesedBooks

    Is that a book all about humping. Cause it sure looks like it :)

    Use it!

    November 27, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterDragonfly Photography

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