Barnyard Dance

You can dance if you want to...

Yay, we have another Sandra Boynton book. Yes, the animals are cute and the rhymes are adorable but Layne and I don't get why people rave about her books. If we want rhymes we pull out the Dr. Seuss Bible. So overall, we give it an "eh".

Let's Find the Colors

This is Layne's second most favorite book.

Little Donald, Daisy, and Pluto are out for a picnic. Each page asks you to find a color. Layne likes the little bugs that are often hidden.

The colors are rich enough and its a good hunt and find activity for Layne.

Teddy's Toy Box

Board book number 17 of the year.

This is mostly pictures. Teddy's is cleaning out his toy box and we have to count how much stuff he has. Damn capitalist Teddy. You start off counting toys and then it gets a little weak at the end. I don't think counting markers and crayons is really an exciting way to reach 20.

Wormy Worm

There's really not much too this one. It's cute and shot and worm centric. Layne wasn't too into it. Just a lot of pictures of worm butts and heads.

Mr. Happy

This was disturbing. Based on the reviews on Amazon, I'm all alone here.

Mr. Happy, who's obviously on something, goes for a walk and finds a door in the woods. He goes through and runs into Mr. Miserable. Mr. Miserable is everyone who's ever lived and loved and lost. Mr. Happy however has to "cure" him and takes Mr. Miserable back to "Happyland". It takes some time but eventually Mr. Miserable finally becomes brainwashed and he becomes happy...just like everyone else.

I took this as statement that we should live, feel, and react in the exact same way as everyone else. And if we don't, there's something wrong with us.

Fight the power.

It's Tigger Time

This has been Layne's favorite book for about a year now. It's a Pooh book firstly and the pages flip out to view what the other characters are doing.

Tigger visits all the characters in the Hundred Acre Wood and you follow along to see what everyone is up to. Mostly the same personality disorders for each character. But you do get to see Roo take a bath which Layne loved. We're big into comparing other people to ourselves right now.

ABC Bunny

Yet another board book.

This one tells the very short story of Little Bunny who goes to the zoo with his grandmother. The find animals and items in the zoo for each letter of the alphabet.

It was pretty white bread as far as the animals went. No aardvarks or even baboons.