One of my students was reading an Ivy + Bean book. I was not very impressed with the odd bits she read aloud to me, but that might have just been my frustration that my student kept forgetting to bring her other, more level-appropriate reading book.
I'm not sure if I even knew that there were Blinky Bill books - but there was a TV series in the 90s. I suspect that set its reputation for my generation. A certain brand of silliness. My mother thought Blinky Bill was a poor role model.
(I just got the Treasury of Australian Children's Stories off my shelf - my sister recently gave me her copy, I'm sure this wasn't something we had when I was a kid - and there so many things in here I've never read. Including an extract from Blinky Bill.)
I'm another who found Beatrix Potter occasionally traumatising. I have a Peter Rabbit mug and figurine sitting on my desk, and last week I was explaining to my mother that while I find Jemima Puddleduck equally aesthetically pleasing, having images of her about me would just be too sad.
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Date: 2017-01-19 04:02 am (UTC)I'm not sure if I even knew that there were Blinky Bill books - but there was a TV series in the 90s. I suspect that set its reputation for my generation. A certain brand of silliness. My mother thought Blinky Bill was a poor role model.
(I just got the Treasury of Australian Children's Stories off my shelf - my sister recently gave me her copy, I'm sure this wasn't something we had when I was a kid - and there so many things in here I've never read. Including an extract from Blinky Bill.)
I'm another who found Beatrix Potter occasionally traumatising. I have a Peter Rabbit mug and figurine sitting on my desk, and last week I was explaining to my mother that while I find Jemima Puddleduck equally aesthetically pleasing, having images of her about me would just be too sad.