Reviews and Comments

Gone through this one before. One's sense of proportion gets very challenged when we reach the greenhouse in which Peppa's ginormous pumpkin is growing. At least in the cartoon, Grandpa Pig needs to empty the contents with a shovel!

Barring safety considerations, it's rather hilarious how this pumpkin is moved: by helicopter... WITH Peppa and her grandparents riding atop the pumpkin lantern. I do believe this was the very first free Peppa book I ever grabbed from a little library house thing. (Of course!) ^_^

We finished "The River Bank" by Kij Johnson bythe end of 2020, which was so excellent and spot on for The Wind In The Willows we slowly savoured each chapter. She really hit on Grahame's style, and all our old friends, as well as new ones, are quite convincing and having plenty of fun in-between putting up with Toad's conceit. There is great back history for Moley, too. I wasn't sure I'd like that initially but I do now. Badger surprised me a bit at the end but it made sense from the environment he'd travelled to. And Ratty is splendid, as always! Otter was there too, yay.

This is one of the best Peppa Pig books for the sake it's kinda nuts. There is a desire for mud puddles but that extends out to a Noah-like flood and then Peppa's grandparents have to show up in a BOAT! They show up in a BOAT and use that to go shopping for everyone in the neighbourhood! How nuts is that???

The author is religious which one would expect less from a view on science and technology. As we say different perspectives are important and this book shows that. There are economic points missing but that leaves room for the storytelling and the metaphoric elements which many humans digest far easier!

This shan’t be a simple list of “What to do” but it will be good practice to understand the whole to find the answers. I encourage listening to interviews of the author before or after proceeding. (Which is a good move with any book.) The most substantial point is the slow reveal of how we expected machines to advance to be more like humans, but with our current system it has been easier and more profitable to treat humans (us) more like machines.

Watched a couple films of this story and... What a difference! The ghost isn’t nearly as admirable as he is in the film(s)! Plus the story is filled with witticisms that really change the view! In the film the dad is obnoxious whereas in the story he’s kind of random and just there, I guess. Plus the films of Canterville Ghost are often updated for whenever they are filmed. The story takes place in the late 1800s. Even so, Wilde rather nails it for Yankees having a snazzy product to solve everything. Whenever the ghost makes issues they offer or use some commercial invention they brought with them!

Picked this up in one of those book-drop boxes that's shaped like a house. Little did I know it's mild look warned me not of being thrown into an alternate dimension of silly!

The Old Mouse has a serious pants dilemma one would expect the ladies in town to be more helpful with, but no... There is a water-running-too-long story at the end that left us puzzled, but The Mouse and The Winds story is likely the cream of silly and still leaves me wondering how the occupant of the moved house managed after all that.