![]() ![]() My sister had an even stronger response to William Steig’s “Sylvester and the Magic Pebble.” After my mother read it aloud to us for the first time, my sister hid the book under a sofa cushion so I don’t think I ever once read this book to my daughters. Horrible adventures until he finally manages to get home, to a spank, the next night. One evening, the little duck Ping fails to hear the call in time to return home to the family boat, gets stuck on shore, and has Marjorie Flack’s “The Story About Ping” also fills me with anxiety. Devastating! I had a flashback to “Swimmy” when, years later, I saw “Finding Nemo” for the first time. ![]() ![]() Gretchen Rubin: I love classic picture books-except the ones that upset me so much that I can’t read them.įor instance, “Swimmy.” The familiar Leo Lionni book opens with a lovely image: “A happy school of little fish lived in a corner of the sea somewhere.” Page two - all the fish areĮaten by a fierce tuna, except Swimmy. In one gulp he swallowed all the little red fish. One bad day a tuna fish, swift, fierce and very hungry, came darting through the waves. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
May 2023
Categories |