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June 26, 2008
Three brief book reviews
You'll Soon Grow Into Them, Titch by Pat Hutchins
Young Titch needs new clothes. His older brother and sister offer him their old clothes, but they're too big. Titch -- who apparently has nothing else to wear -- puts them on anyway and is humiliated. Eventually, Titch's negligent parents realize that it is their responsibility to clothe all of their children properly, not just the older two. The kicker: When Titch's baby brother is born, he offers the infant his pants. In other words, he has learned nothing.
The Dynamic Dumper Truck by Anonymous
Here we have the saga of a heavy-equipment operator named Bill. We watch Bill drive his truck around a construction site. We see men mixing concrete, men pouring concrete and men looking at plans for a new building. Extraneous detail ("It carries loads backwards and forwards") is included, presumably, to add drama, but succeeds only in bogging down an already-leaden tale. At the end, the narrator asks if the reader can remember all the things Bill did today. Here's a question: Why would you want to?
The Little Red Wagon by Anonymous
Bendon bear notices that Billy Jo bunny's wagon is broken. Bendon offers to fix it and Billy Jo accepts his offer. Later, despite Bendon's warning, Billy Jo overloads the wagon and breaks one of its wheels. Again, Bendon fixes it. The moral of the story: Helping others will get you nowhere.
Posted by teb at June 26, 2008 02:10 PM