Childrens Books

[angela5]

Childrens Book's you'll never see.:lol:

"pop! goes the Hamster...And other Microwave Games"

"Why can't Mr Fork And Ms Electrical outlet be friends?"

"Things Rich kids have, but you never will"

"That's it i'm putting you up for adoption"

"Curious George and the High-Voltage fence"

"Dad's new wife Robert"

[squidge]

You WILL find

"Jenny lives with Eric and Martin"

by susanne Bosche

and

Hillaire Bellocs Cautionary tales sail quite close to "Curious George and the High-Voltage fence"

Henry King Who chewed bits of string and was early cut off in dreadful agonies

The Chief Defect of Henry King
Was chewing little bits of String.
At last he swallowed some which tied
Itself in ugly Knots inside.
Physicians of the Utmost Fame
Were called at once; but when they came
They answered, as they took their Fees,
"There is no Cure for this Disease.
Henry will very soon be dead."
His Parents stood about his Bed
Lamenting his Untimely Death,
When Henry, with his Latest Breath,
Cried - "Oh, my Friends, be warned by me,
That Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch and Tea
Are all the Human Frame Requires..."
With that the Wretched Child expires.

[sapphire]

I have a copy of a book called 'Struwwelpeter' by Dr Heinrich Hoffmann which my mum used to read to me when I was young ( yes this was not yesterday! ) and I LOVED it.
It is full of stories all of which contain lessons to be learned...or not!
Stories such as :

The Story of Little Suck-A-Thumb

One day Mamma said "Conrad dear
I must go out and leave you here,
But mind now,Conrad what I say,
Don't suck your thumb while I'm away.
The Great tall tailor always comes
To little boys that suck their thumbs,
And ere they dream what he's about
He takes his great sharp scissors out
And cuts their thumbs clean off,-----and then,
You know they never grow again'.

Mamma had scarcely turn'd her back.
The thumb was in,Alack! Alack!
The door flew open,in he ran
The Great long red-legg'd scissor-man.
Oh ! Children see! the tailor's come
And caught out little Suck-A-Thumb.
Snip ! Snap ! Snip ! the scissors go;
And Conrad cries out ---Oh ! Oh ! Oh !
Snip ! Snap! Snip ! They go so fast,
That both his thumbs are off at last.

Mamma comes home; there Conrad stands,
And looks quite sad, and shows his hands,---
" Ah!" said Mamma ! I knew he'd come
To naughty little Suck-A-Thumb"


Nice eh? Dr Hoffmann wrote this in 1844 for his THREE year old son ( a Christmas present would you believe? ) [disgust]