Reddit reviews Elephant and the Bad Baby (Puffin Picture Books)
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Hah! Not a nursery rhyme, but a classic book.
A friend gave us a copy of The Elephant and the Bad Baby, which - while gorgeously illustrated - tells the tale of an elephant who picks up a young child in the street and proceeds to rob various shopkeeps around town, all under the guise of feeding the hungry child. But make no mistake, that thieving motherfucker stretches out his long trunk and takes one for himself as well.
And then, he and all the store owners (who have been giving chase the entire time) turn on the young boy - who has been labeled the "BAD baby" the entire time - because he didn't once say please. Apparently, the larceny is fine just so long as you're polite about it.
Oh, and then they all force themselves into his home and have his mother feed them pancakes.
Goddamn thieving elephant.
Ooooh, this is fun!!! I often wish that me or my friends had kids, just so I could buy someone the children's books I love. Here's a few suggestions, if I think of any more I'll keep adding them =)
Anything illustrated by Robyn Belton, ANY of Margaret Mahy's children books
Special mention:
The Choosing Day by Jennifer Beck/illustrated by Robyn Belton
David's Dad by Jennifer Beck/illustrated by Robyn Belton
17 Kings and 42 Elephants by Margaret Mahy. Fantastic rhyme, even pre-language babies love it. "Forty-two elephants oh, what a lot of 'ums / Big feet beating in the wet wood shade, /Proud and ponderous hippopotomums / danced to the music that the marchers made.''
Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy by Lynley Dodd Again, fantastic language
My Cat Likes to Hide In Boxes by Lynley Dodd (woah, didn't know she wrote that 'till just now)
My sister loved The Elephant and the Bad Baby
Grandpa's Slippers Grandma keeps throwing Grandpa's slippers out, he keeps saving them
Look at Gecko Press - a New Zealand-based publisher of English versions of award-winning children's books from around the world. They've got some gorgeous books, which are in most cases the first English translations of these stories.