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The Man in the Back Seat (1961) Vernon Sewell

September 15th 2022

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So I had this book as a child and had completely forgotten about it until tonight. I then proceeded to immediately order it from Amazon. Now I'm realizing that I should have also ordered Bony-Legs.

My search for this book brought up other goth-kid book nostalgia for me such as the Bailey School Kids series. Aliens Don't Wear Braces was my favorite one. The first one I read that I ordered from Scholastic, Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots, came with these glow-in-the-dark witch nails.

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The Wide-mouthed Frog by Keith Faulkner

The Wide-mouthed Frog by Keith Faulkner is a children’s picture book story about a frog. This frog has a wide-mouth and loves catching and eating flies. The wide-mouthed frog hops along catching flies and runs into two animals and asks them what they like to eat. The blue-feathered bird likes to eat “wriggly worms and slugs” while the furry brown mouse likes to eat “crunchy seeds and juicy berries.” The wide-mouthed frog hops along and finds a big green alligator.

The wide-mouthed frog says to the alligator, “I’m a wide-mouthed frog and I eat flies. What do you eat, alligator?” The alligator responds, “I eat delicious wide-mouthed frogs” and shows the frog his sharp white teeth. In that moment, the wide-mouthed frog stopped catching flies and puckered up his lips making his mouth as small as possible.

The wide-mouthed frog says to the alligator, “Ooooh. You don’t see many of them around, do you?” He then hopped into the pond with a great big splash and the book ends. Young readers will think that the wide-mouthed frog essentially saved himself from the alligator. If anyone were to put more thought into the fact that alligators can also swim, they may piece together that the destiny of the frog is a bit ambiguous. However, the message for the young reader is that the wide-mouthed frog lives. Once the wide-mouth frog realizes that the alligator is interested in eating him, he changes his demeanor and shows volition to try to save his life. Like I stated above, without much thought, we believe that the wide-mouthed frog must have saved himself and survived/escaped from the alligator. When the wide-mouth frog puckered up his lips he tried to differ the alligator from thinking that he is a wide-mouthed frog (which is funny because the alligator eats frogs no matter their mouth size) and then saves himself by jumping into the pond.

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Bertie's Big Blue Binoculars

Bertie’s Big Blue Binoculars

Esme picked one of Zack’s old books tonight for her bedtime story; Bertie’s Big Blue Binoculars. I think I know one of the gifts I will be getting her for Christmas. She loved the book so much we had to read it twice. :) Then she said to me, “MomMom, books are for night time.” I said, “No honey, books are for all of the time.”

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