I am a Bunny.

My name is Nicholas.
I live in a hollow tree.

Yes, I am hastening the mockery of the 'I am a...' diaries so they will become uncool. What's your favorite kid's book? I am partial to anything illustrated by Richard Scarry, Eloise Wilkin and Garth Williams. My 7 month old likes 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?' but I think its a snoozer.

I'll use the rest of this diary to discuss the roll-eating shit episode from yesterday. This has probably already been discussed here, but I found my favorite assessment of his remark from Ezra Klain via Atrios yesterday. I think we did indeed get a rare glimpse into the mind of BushCo regarding foreign policy. The media focused on the 'shit' (GASP! HORROR!) but the REAL story is what was said. Also, Jon Stewart makes a great point that at least he was on topic, and not making a remark about Merkel's camel toe. I can honestly say this is the proudest I have ever been of W! Sniff!

From Ezra Klein:

Given the relative opacity of Bush's thoughts on the situation, the frank discussion offered a fair amount of insight and a couple nuggets of news, including that he was going to send Condi to the region (or possibly the UN -- but she's going somewhere to deal with this), that he blamed neither Israel nor Lebanon for the violence, and that "the irony is what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it's over." That's a big deal: Bush believes it within the Syrian government's power to calm the conflict.  Theoretically, that should have major implications for American diplomacy and, possibly, policy...,

Bush also does not understand irony, like so much Alanis.

I'd be curious to see how the Wingnuttia is reacting to the  G8 summit (I do not give Freepers, et al web hits). In my opinion this is one of the nakedest examples of Dear Leader's awkwardness that we have been exposed to in a long while. From Putin's zinger to the roll chompin', it was a profound embarressment soup to nuts.

So let's discuss kid's books, the G8, and Freeper reaction in this thread.  Let's do!

•  I also reluctantly thought that this showed a

  modicum of understanding on W's part.  That's it, my one and only compliment to him forever.  Unless he says "I quit," then I will once again praise him on high.

  by hcc in VA on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:13:23 AM PDT

  •  The shit episode was

    far less disturbing to me than the zinger from Putin and W's desperate unclever response.

    I cant wait to see the next round of approval polling.

    by ablington on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:17:07 AM PDT

    •  Oh yes, his zinger was precious and

      W's response, up to expectations, pathetic.  This Admin must be absolutely petrified at the thought of another military involvement, which would require them to re-institute the Draft.  That would be the end, Finally, of this Fascist State.  

      by hcc in VA on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:41:47 AM PDT

      •  'Just you wait! I'll show you yet!'

        I think my six year old said that the other day.

        Yup.  W's full of mature responses.

        by suzq on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 12:50:40 PM PDT

  •  I am Jack's raging bile duct.

    by Compostings on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 12:00:45 PM PDT

•  I am the Walrus

  koo koo kachoo. And I get no respect from the seals or orcas. And I have to live my life in constant fear of attack by polar bears.

  by danfromny on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:13:34 AM PDT

  •  PLEASE

    It's goo goo gajoob.

    Sez so right in the lyrics.

    Do your research.

    by RabidNation on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:34:38 AM PDT

    •  Must be a revisionist

      by melvin on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:37:25 AM PDT

    •  Goo goo g'joob

      My official sheet music says Goo goo g'joob

      Elementary penguins indeed

      by WI Deadhead on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 12:24:35 PM PDT

  •  Don't worry Wally

    the polar bears are heading for extinction.

    by xanthe on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 12:01:23 PM PDT

•  I'm a little teapot.

  by melvin on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:15:57 AM PDT

  •  do you

    have a tempest in there somewhere?

    by juls on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:25:05 AM PDT

  •  Hey...I expected Bunny...

    ...the drag queen.

    by rserven on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:41:45 AM PDT

    •  It's before noon here.

      by melvin on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:45:51 AM PDT

      •  Sun has to be over the yardarm?

        by rserven on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:52:54 AM PDT

•  Ummm

  I am not sure that is a mushroom that rabbit is standing under; but hey I am a perv.

  by Doggie269 on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:16:22 AM PDT

  •  Nicholas the bunny

    keeps dry under a toadstool.

    by ablington on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:17:36 AM PDT

    •  Does not look like one to me

      But as I said, I am a perv.

      by Doggie269 on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:18:32 AM PDT

      •  Yes Im trying desperately not to see what

        youre seeing but this is a losing battle.

        Nicholas the Bunny keeps dry under a toadstool...
        Nicholas the Bunny keeps dry under a toadstool...
        Nicholas the Bunny keeps dry under a toadstool...

        by ablington on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:20:37 AM PDT

      •  Children's book illustrators

        do sometimes try to sneak stuff in.  My friend's little girl once gave me a page out of a coloring book she'd just colored, and it was of a flower plant or something, but in the foliage was the most graphic circumcised penis.  It was quite disturbing, and I couldn't put the picture on my fridge as I'd meant to do.

        by MissLaura on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:26:51 AM PDT

        •  Dr. Suess

          Theodor 'Seuss' Geisel was known to have some very 'adult' things hidden. Supposedly the love letters to his wife were quite explicit.

          by Doggie269 on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:29:08 AM PDT

          •  Wow. Gotta crack open Cat in the Hat again.

            by suzq on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 12:52:32 PM PDT

            •  I have a t-shirt

              that has the picture from Green Eggs & Ham with the text from the page: "would you do it with a goat".

              by Frankenoid on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 01:05:32 PM PDT

      •  For Doggie the Perv!

        

        See what you've gone and done! You perv you - whomp, whomp, whomp! ;^D

        by SallyCat on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:46:47 AM PDT

    •  I have wonderful memories of

      Richard Scarry books - thanks.

      by wader on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:30:22 AM PDT

    •  nicholas cricket!

      Nicholas Cricket plays every night
      in the Bug-a-Wug Cricket Band.

      Moonlight glows and summer wind blows,
      rabbits come dancing on tip-tippy toes.
      The music is just so grand!

      Nicholas Cricket plays with all his might
      in the Bug-a-Wug Cricket Band.

      screw the shit and get to playing in a cricket band.

      playing in a cricket band

      and if you can get illustrated by William Joyce even better for you.

      by katier on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:32:31 AM PDT

  •  It is, indeed, a mushroom

    amanita muscaria, a/k/a Fly Agaric.

    

    And it's psychoactive.  Eat too much and it will kill you, but judge the amount right, and you'll be hallucinating.

    Used by Native Americans in the NorthWet much as peyote was used in the desert southwest.

    I always find it amusing that that is the mushroom that is typically used in illustrating children's books.

    by Frankenoid on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 12:12:48 PM PDT

•  This one has a little star

  This one has a little car.

  Say! What a lot of fish there are!

  by elfling on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:16:23 AM PDT

  •  Yes.

    Some are red and some are blue.
    Some are old and some are new.
    Some are sad and some are glad,
    and some are very, very bad.

    Why are they sad and glad and bad?
    I do not know. Go ask your dad.

    by elfling on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:18:20 AM PDT

•  'I am a vampire!'

  Sorry, Buffy at the carnival reference.  First thing that crossed my mind.
  .

  by Grand Moff Texan on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:16:50 AM PDT

  •  'You have a sacred birthright to protect

    mankind.  Don't stick out your elbow."

    by sele on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:23:25 AM PDT

•  Call Me Ishmael

  Actually we're mistranslating Bush's remark about Condi.

  that he was going to send Condi to the region (or possibly the UN -- but she's going somewhere to deal with this),

  He was saying he thought she was going to the region.

  The President hadn't told him for certain.

  by Gooserock on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:17:13 AM PDT

  •  He only thought he'd send her...

    because he needs to get back to DC and ask Dick Cheney before he can say it with certainty.

    by lalo456987 on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 01:27:01 PM PDT

•  I opened this diary for the

  pancakes.  But, nooooo. :(

  by MTmofo on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:17:35 AM PDT

  •  Here you go

    

    - Albert Einstein

    by Walt starr on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:29:35 AM PDT

    •  YAYYY! n/t

      by MTmofo on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:31:28 AM PDT

•  one fish two fish red fish blue fish

  hop on pop, etc. -- all things seussian still delight me.

  although richard scarry is also very, very good.

  like you, i cannot stomach giving web hits to freepers--but so far, the silence seems deafening/telling. it's so profoundly clear that bush is a hack / buffoon / oaf / classless putz. (sigh. who happens to be at the helm of the american ship of state.) there's nothing presidential about the man.

  by homo neurotic on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:17:43 AM PDT

  •  Ive been waiting for one of those

    Freeperville diving diaries regarding the summit, because W has been transparently buffoonish. I shouldve figured they would be in denial.

    by ablington on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:22:18 AM PDT

•  Chasing the Butterflies

  My daughter loves I am a Bunny and my first thought when I saw the title was of the book, which is one of my favorites to read to her.  I also like Bing Bunny.

  I agree, Alanis failed to mention one example of irony in that song but instead lists a series of unfortunate coincidences making the only thing ironic about the song her misuse of the word.  

  And yes, the G8 was a complete and utter diplomatic flop.

  by Alkibiadesdog on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:19:00 AM PDT

  •  A swan dive into

    an empty pool.

    by wozzle on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:36:35 AM PDT

•  I do not like green eggs and ham.

  I do not like them Sam-I-Am.

  Sam-I-Am would make a better President than Bush.  The Lorax too, definitely.  And Horton... because he hears Whos.

  by jlove1982 on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:19:23 AM PDT

  •  Instead, we have Thing One and Thing Two

    in charge.

    by suzq on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 12:54:38 PM PDT

  •  Whos?

    I'm the pinball wizard

    by Cecile on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 01:31:49 PM PDT

    •  Horton heard them

      Which surprises me, as his follow-up was not called "Horton In The Teenage Wasteland"

      by jlove1982 on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 02:34:08 PM PDT

•  I am a...

  Okay, let's be honest.  Who gives a shit?  If only the Syrians would give a shit.  Enough of a shit to tell Hezbollah to knock off their shit.

  I am a... shit.

  by Bob Johnson on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:19:44 AM PDT

  •  But

    what kind of shit are you? That is the kind of detail we are all looking for.

    by melvin on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:25:07 AM PDT

    •  Corny.

      HA!

      by ablington on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:27:05 AM PDT

•  From the Mixed Up Files

  of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg.  I've always adored this book and I still re-read it every year.  It's listed for 9-12 years old, but I don't remember when I first read it.  

  I was also very into Encyclopedia Brown and it disorients me to see new covers on these books.  Stop that, you revisionist publishers!

  by sele on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:20:36 AM PDT

  •  !!!

    Was that the book that took place at the Natural History Museum?

    by ablington on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:24:48 AM PDT

    •  Metropolitan Museum of Art, yep

      Making her little brother bathe in the fountain because you still must bathe properly, even when you're on the lam.

      by sele on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:27:11 AM PDT

  •  Just read that one again

    read it to my son, he liked it as much as I did.  Even though he is plenty old enough to read himself, I try to read out loud to him for 30-45 minutes every night.  Someday maybe he'll read to me when I can not.

    I also like A Wrinkle in Time (but stay away from the sequel, Wind at the Door... tedious crap IMO)

    Anything by Suess is good.

    Best book for someone to learn to read... Go, Dog, Go
    Without a doubt the best first book ever.

    by WI Deadhead on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 12:18:35 PM PDT

•  My Pet Goat (n/t)

  by Heronymous Cowherd on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:20:57 AM PDT

•  As a child...

  I always stuck the wholesome goodness that was Archie Comics...

  

  by Darrell J Gahm on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:23:31 AM PDT

  •  Glad Im not alone.

    My parents for some reason saved all my Archie Digest from the late 70s, early 80s. I totally wanted to be Veronica.

    by ablington on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:26:08 AM PDT

    •  'wanted to be Veronica'...

      who wouldn't? After all, she got such great gifts from Archie...

      

      by Darrell J Gahm on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:30:57 AM PDT

      •  She had high standards

        and seemed infinitely more interesting than Betty. OTOH, I totally hated Reggie.

        by ablington on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:35:03 AM PDT

      •  Dayum!!

        ONly now did I read THIS panel!! Naughty Betty!!

        by ablington on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:39:55 AM PDT

  •  HA!

    ONly just now I read what Archie said in that panel. Heh heh.

    by ablington on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:36:09 AM PDT

•  I'm surprised

  With all the "I am a..." snark going around, no one's pulled out my favorite yet. So...

  I am Cornholio.

  Someone can finish off the tee-pee joke.

  by dennisl on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:25:20 AM PDT

  •  are you threatening me?

    by Darrell J Gahm on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:27:25 AM PDT

•  I am a jelly donut n/t

  - Albert Einstein

  by Walt starr on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:27:30 AM PDT

  •  ich bin ein Berliner...n/t

    by kmiddle on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:37:29 AM PDT

•  Thanks for the place for my 'I am a..' diary

  First, I really do understand the importance of those diaries, but I have nothing to offer in the way of a pertinent religious/cultural identity.  

  So I was thinking about doing a diary titled:  "I am a Presbyterian".  So naturally Scotland is the country of my heart which I will defend to my last breath. It does not have quite the punch that the other diaries had.  =(  Oh well.

  Scotland go bragh!  (I don't know the Scottish Gaelic for it.)  

  by flo58 on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:27:53 AM PDT

  •  I am a Deadhead

    But you probably already guessed that.  

    Not just a musical preference, but a way of looking at the world.  Somehow I don't think this wold have much resonance with humanity, so I am content to "come out" on this charming diary.

    by WI Deadhead on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 12:32:45 PM PDT

  •  Alba gu Brath n/t

    by Seonachan on Wed Jul 26, 2006 at 11:03:10 PM PDT

•  The Baby Bach video is surprisingly

  deep.

  I think (after watcing it about 600 times) that it's about baby taking center stage away from the older sister as the older sister blossoms into a big girl.

  But somehow it's really hard to find people who are into finding deeper meanings in the Baby Bach video.

  by sclminc on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:27:54 AM PDT

•  I am tired.

  Please, if there is an alien from another star system lurking here - get in touch with me.  I want to try another planet plus I am so confused and dispirited now -- well I'm a perfect candidate for your re-education programs.

  by xanthe on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:28:06 AM PDT

•  My favorite book from my childhood?

  Ringworld by Larry Niven.

  Books my daughter likes me to read to her?

  Dungeon Master's Guide, Player's Handbook, Monster Manual, and Baby's First Mythos.

  by Moody Loner on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:28:07 AM PDT

•  Stig of the Dump

  English book about a little boy who goes to live with his Aunt (?) for the Summer and meets a Neaderthal caveboy who lives in the local dump.  Great Book!  Not sure if it's available in this country however.....

  by espresso on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:28:26 AM PDT

•  I resemble that remark

  

  by BobzCat on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:29:20 AM PDT

•  i am a total fucking bad ass

  and my kung fu is the best....

  "after the Rapture, we get all their shit"

  It's time: the albany project.

  by lipris on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:33:55 AM PDT

•  You know, when I heard

  Bush's latest words of wisdom, they didn't even phase me.  Yeah, he's an inarticulate idiot.  Knew that.  And yeah, he's embarrassing.  We watch coverage of Tony Blair and I find myself just wanting a president who can speak in complete sentences...how's that for lowering the bar?  Anyway, with all the fuss, I just kept thinking about how I wished this was the worst thing Bush had done.  My outrage meter is just running on empty these days.

  Children's books?  If I start rhyming in the mode of Dr. Seuss, I just might not be able to stop.

  by tjb22 on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:35:58 AM PDT

  •  The open mouth chewing phased me more

    than anything else he's done in a couple years.

    by ablington on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:38:42 AM PDT

    •  Where did this man come from?

      How can they be so lacking?  Its like a few years ago when they visited the Pope and Laura didn't wear any kind of head covering.  

      Now, I'm not a snob.  Many people I can forgive for boorish manners, but these are people that have whole staffs surrounding them that should be able to advise them in regards to their public behavior.  

      by tjb22 on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:44:04 AM PDT

  •  I am Fezzik?

    If I start rhyming in the mode of Dr. Seuss, I just might not be able to stop.

    Someone else with that problem:

    Inigo Montoya: That Vizzini, he can fuss.
    Fezzik: Fuss, fuss... I think he like to scream at us.
    Inigo Montoya: Probably he means no harm.
    Fezzik: He's really very short on charm.
    Inigo Montoya: You have a great gift for rhyme.
    Fezzik: Yes, yes, some of the time.
    Vizzini: Enough of that.
    Inigo Montoya: Fezzik, are there rocks ahead?
    Fezzik: If there are, we all be dead.
    Vizzini: No more rhymes now, I mean it.
    Fezzik: Anybody want a peanut?

    by sharkbite on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:42:41 AM PDT

•  Who Am I?

  Who am I
  Was it all planned in advance
  Or was I just born by chance in July
  Who on earth am I
  My friends only think of fun
  They're such a curious a lot
  Must I be the only one
  Who thinks these mysterious thoughts

  Some day I'll die
  Will I ever live again
  As a mountain lion
  Or a rooster, a hen
  Or a robin, or a wren, or a fly

  Oh, who am I

  Do you believe in reincarnation
  Do you believe in reincarnation
  Were you ever here before
  Have you ever had dreams
  That you knew were true
  Some time before in your life
  Have you ever had that experience
  So you must question

  All the truths that you know
  All the love and the life
  That you know and say
  Who am I

  Will I ever live again
  As a mountain lion
  Or a rooster, a hen
  Or a robin, or a wren, or a fly
  If I'm one of those lives
  That have been reincarnated again
  And again, and again

  Oh, who am I

  by melvin on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:36:57 AM PDT

  •  Who am I?

    by Joe MacDonald

    Who am I
    To stand and wonder, to wait
    While the wheels of fate
    Slowly grind my life away.
    Who am I ?

    There were some things that I loved one time,
    But the dreams are gone I thought were mine,
    And the hidden tears that once could fall
    Now burn inside at the thought of all
    The years of waste, the years of crime
    Passions of a heart so blind;
    To think that, but even still
    As I stand exposed, the feelings are felt
    And I cry into the echo of my loneliness.

    Who am I
    To stand and wonder, to wait
    While the wheels of fate
    Slowly grind my life away.
    Who am I ?

    What a nothing I've made of life
    The empty words, the coward's plight
    To be pushed and passed from hand to hand
    Never daring to speak, never daring to stand
    And the emptiness of my family's eyes
    Reminds me over and over of lies
    And promises and deeds undone
    And now again I want to run
    But now there is nowhere to run to.

    Who am I
    To stand and wonder, to wait
    While the wheels of fate
    Slowly grind my life away.
    Who am I ?

    And now my friend we meet again
    We shall see which one will bend
    Under the strain of death's golden eyes
    Which one of us shall win the prize
    To live and which one will die
    'Tis I, my friend, yes 'tis I
    Shall kill to live again and again
    To clutch the throat of sweet revenge
    For life is here only for the taking.

    Who am I
    To stand and wonder, to wait
    While the wheels of fate
    Slowly grind my life away.
    Who am I ? Who am I ?

    by rserven on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:45:54 AM PDT

•  My two favorites for reading to my daughters...

  ...were Make Way for Ducklings when they were way young, and Charlotte's Web a little later.

  With Ducklings I got to do a corny Irish accent as Oiicer Mike, then later read the list of duckling names: "Jack, Kack, Lack, Mack, Nack, Ouack, Pack, and..." at which point each daughter would shout out the last name.

  by Elwood Dowd on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:42:08 AM PDT

•  Where the Wild Things Are is the best ever n/t

  by exiled texan on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:45:47 AM PDT

•  my mom teaches special ed

  years and years ago, she took a group of her students to the bathroom. One kid was in the stall forever. Finally, he came out, pants at his ankles, with a wad of toilet paper stuck up his ass like a bunny tail, fingers over his head like bunny ears, hopping and yelling "I am a bunny!"

  by OrangeClouds115 on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:48:10 AM PDT

•  My Name Is Nicholas

  Good thing my girls are in their mid-20's now, or I'm sure I would still be reciting that story from memory.

  But who could forget Uncle Shelby, one of the finest storytellers to transcend child and adult stories, songs and poems?

  PEANUT BUTTER SANDWICH
                           by Shel Silverstein

  I'll tell you a story of silly young king who played with the world at the end of a string
  But he only loved one single thing and that was just a peanut butter sandwich

  Now his scepter wand his royal gowns his regal throne and golden crowns
  Were brown and sticky from the mounds
  And drippings from each peanut butter sandwich
  His subjects all were silly fools cuz he had passed a royal rule
  That all that they could learn in school was how to make a peanut butter sandwich
  He would not eat his sovereign steak he scorned his soup and his kingly cake
  And told his courtly cook to bake
  And nothin' nothin' nothin' but an extra-sticky peanut butter sandwich

  And then one day he took a bite and started chewing with delight
  But found his mouth was stuck quite tight
  From that last bite of peanut butter sandwich

  His brother pulled his sister pried the wizard pushed his mother cried
  "Oh my boy's committed suicide from eating his last peanut butter sandwich!"

  The dentist came and the royal doc the royal plumber banged and knocked
  But still those jaws stayed tightly locked oh darn that sticky peanut butter sandwich

  The carpenter he tried with pliers the telephone man tried with wires
  The firemen they tried with fire but couldn't melt that peanut butter sandwich

  With ropes and pulleys drills and coil with steam and lubricating oil
  For twenty years of tears and toil they fought that awful peanut butter sandwich

  Then all his royal subjects came they hooked his jaws with grapplin' chains
  And pulled both ways with might and main
  Against against that peanut butter sandwich

  Each man and woman girl and boy put down their ploughs and pots and toys
  And pulled until keerack! oh joy! they broke right through the peanut butter sandwich

  A puff of dust a screech a squeak the kin's jaw opened with a creak
  And then in voice so faint and weak the first words that they heard him speak
  Were "How about a peanut butter sandwich?"

  by PBen on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 11:55:40 AM PDT

•  I keep telling you

  my name is Inigo Montoya.  Why do you keep asking?

  Best children's book: Where the Wild Things Are.  Because that's where children live -- we adults are really the wild things that must be tamed.

  by Frankenoid on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 12:15:03 PM PDT

•  Charlie Parker Played Be Bop

  Terrific book...

  Charlie Parker Played Be Bop
  Charlie parker played saxophone
  the music sounded like Be Bop
  never leave your cat alone

  Charlie Parker played Be Bop
  Charlie Parker played no trombone
  the music sounded like Be Bop
  bar-b-que that last leg bone

  Charlie Parker played Be Bop
  Charlie Parker played alto saxophone
  the music sounded like hip hop
  never leave your cat Alone

  Alphabet, alphabet, alphabet, alph
  chickadee, chickadee, chickadee-chick
  overshoes, overshoes, overshoes-O
  retti-footi, reeti-footi, reeti-footi-re

  Charlie Parker played Be Bop
  Charlie Parker played saxophone
  the music sounded like Be Bop
  never leave your cat A-Lone!

  Also, anything by Ezra Jack Keates.  Goggles, A Snowy Day... I didn;t realize until I was an adult that all the charcters in his book are black.  Maybe that contributed to my tolerance of those who don't look like me?  I certainly didn't know any black people growing up.

  by WI Deadhead on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 12:41:30 PM PDT

•  G8 Summit told as Children's Lit

  Curious George went to the G8 Summit last week.  He was hoping it would be more like Around the World in Eighty Days, but it ended up more like Gulliver's Travels.

  First, he met with Little Bear and spoke of democracy, describing it as a Pilgrim's Progress.  Little Bear told him he was a Selfish Giant and Nobody's Buddy exclaiming, "Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball! You can't fool me.  I Know What You Did Last Summer!"

  Then, A Series of Unfortunate Events broke out Where the Wild Things Are and Curious George consulted with The Great Brain, only to find out Why Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ears.  

  The gathering of important world leaders thought they'd be meeting with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz but soon discovered that he turned out to be Captain Underpants (tra la la).

  Meantime, Curious George discovered that the new chancelor of Germany wore a suit of National Velvet.  He was curious.  He reached out to give her a Hug.

  She told him to go back to his Little House on the Prairie.  "You give me Goosebumps," she said.

  by suzq on Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 01:54:21 PM PDT