Quirky books Intended for Children
Here is an article I found this morning about quirky books for kids. If you find some of the strange, surreal, and sometimes disturbing books published for children, you've got to read the article. (With a nod to Google Alerts for the truly random things they send me daily.)
Or, go to the blog Curious Pages, "Recommended Inappropriate Books for Kids (TM)." Contributor Lane Smith is one of the contributors, know to kid lit fans as one of the genius minds behind The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. A-ha! I see light bulbs just flashed as you recognize his fierce wit.
You will wonder: WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? when some of these books were written/illustrated/published. Seriously.
Have fun.
Image from Cover Browser.
Or, go to the blog Curious Pages, "Recommended Inappropriate Books for Kids (TM)." Contributor Lane Smith is one of the contributors, know to kid lit fans as one of the genius minds behind The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. A-ha! I see light bulbs just flashed as you recognize his fierce wit.
You will wonder: WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? when some of these books were written/illustrated/published. Seriously.
Have fun.
Image from Cover Browser.
Posted by Keri Collins at 3/31/2010 6:54 AM 
Categories: Miscellaneous, picture book
Tags: children fun books
Categories: Miscellaneous, picture book
Tags: children fun books
I remember reading some of the stories in the Struwwelpeter (Shock-Headed Peter)mentioned in the quirky books list. Some of the images were definitely burned into my brain as a child. I don't know where my parents got this book (it may have been one of theirs as a child!)but the stories definitely make an impression.
Many of Grimmm's stories and also Hans Christian Andersen's are not what we might now think of as appropriate for our children, however kids DO have the ability to distinguish between fantasy, pretend and reality.
Of course I much prefer the happy ending myself!
M.
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How could they *not* be burned into your brain, with those crazy illustrations?
Some days I feel like my hair resembles his.
I agree with you on both points: I love me some happy endings HOWEVER Disneyfying all of the folk tales removes the lessons they were originally trying to teach. (While simultaneously creating an entire generation of narcissistic princess-obsessed divas, but I digress.)
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