Showing posts with label too skeptical for children's books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label too skeptical for children's books. Show all posts

Friday, February 21, 2014

The Deep Deep Puddle, by Mary Jessie Parker

The Deep Deep Puddle The Deep Deep Puddle, by Mary Jessie Parker, 40 pages

I was not a fan of this picture book.  So, it's sort of a counting book, and increasingly larger numbers of items/things/people keep falling into this deep deep puddle; but I kept thinking, are they drowning?  Am I supposed to suspend my disbelief about their abilities to survive underwater for these great lengths of time?  Did the taxis fall on the people in the puddle- are they laying at the bottom, being crushed?  Are the cats eating the squirrels?  What's going on down there?  Far too ambiguous.