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Who’s Afraid of a Children’s Book?
I am. But my kid isn’t.
Last night, my 4-year-old and I snuggled under the covers for our nightly bedtime stories. Here are some pages from our final book of the night.
What If…? by Anthony Browne
Wait, what!? You’ll probably want to spend a little time looking at those pages. I sure did.
The premise of What If… ? by Anthony Browne (not to be confused with What If… by Samantha Berger and Mike Curato, which is another great children’s book) is that a boy is having anxiety about going to a birthday party. As his mom walks him down the street to the party, he looks in all the neighbors’ windows and imagines weirder and weirder scenarios for what the party might be like.
In the first picture here, notice the pig hiding under the table. And how one of the humanoids is being shoved face-first into the… teapot that sort of looks like it’s alive (or used to be?) There’s a pink sausage shape on a plate, and a cup of possibly…
