Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Hassenpfeffer Incorporated, We're gonna do it!



What Sucks About Good Night Moon: by Laurie

1. In the great green room there was a telephone and a red balloon.
a. kelly green is a putrid color for anybody's room, least of all a child (or a bunny in a child's pajamas)
b. Why does fake bunny person boy need a phone? And mightn't he choke on the long and springy cord? That is if he doesn't
c. choke on the red balloon floating above his bed

I am hip with the picture of the cow jumping over the moon and the three little bears sitting on chairs even though if you're going to include three bears in anything, to be fair to the child (bunny freak, whatever) one should be a big bear, one should be a mama, and only one should be a baby. I'm just saying.

2. The mittens are drying in front of the open fire in the child (pajamaed bunny's) room. Open fire. Unsupervised child. That warrants a call to DCFS in my book, and I am a state mandated reporter, you know.

3. And I would be fine with the two kittens, if it weren't for the SMALL MOUSE. So, let's say bunny boy doesn't leap into the open flame and cheecharonay his PJs, he will survive only to see the small mouse gutted and consumed by the small kittens. Gross, and, again, rodent infested bedrooms just might warrant another call to DCFS.
(And, now I'm starting to rethink the whole need-for-a-phone thing. Fufu just might need it.)

comb,fine
brush, fine

4. Bowl full of mush? All night? Why? Is this what is fed to the rabbit if he makes it through the horrid night?

Glad the old lady whispering "Hush" shows up to protect Peter Rabbit from the flames and the carnage and the mush. It may interest the reader to know that in my Spanish version (one of several of my LAME attempts to keep the kids' Spanish) she is "una amable viejicita que teje muy calladita." Cute.

And my absolute favorite part? "Goodnight nobody" Gives me a tee hee every time.

And, again, in the end, protective old rabbit woman is gone, leaving the flames unattended as little hassenpfeffer sleeps.

Yum!

Goodnight, Moon!

5 comments:

only a movie said...

Excellent analysis of Good Night Moon. And the Laverne & Shirley reference? I was *just* singing that song the other day. I think I'll have to bookmark this.

Tricia said...

Am I a horrible mother because I managed to "lose" this book.....

Victoria was obsessed with it.

I was always creeped out by it and how methodically & neurotically well-ordered the room looked.....

Jennifer, Playgroups Are No Place For Children said...

I know!!

This is my husband's favorite book to read to our kids??????

Have you seen the book "My World?" It's supposedly a companion to Goodnight Moon. Anyway, it sucks. AWFUL book.

mrsmouthy said...

Dude, if you had a hard time with "Goodnight Moon," do NOT read the picture book "Fortunately." Totally unsupervised child pilots plane, plane explodes, pitchfork in haystack he lands in, wild tigers, etc. etc. It will leave you begging for unwatched fire.

jeneflower said...

I have always wondered about that book. Why do kids love it so much when there are so many better books out there? So many more beautiful books- but the kids don't want those. They want Goodnight Moon or Pat the Bunny. Every kid.