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DON'T BUY IT (unless you want to use as a gag gift). Utterly confounding how this has as high of a review as it does
I was so excited to gift this book to my friend who's expecting her first child this December. When I received the book and actually read through it I couldn't believe all the 4 and 5 star reviews I had read on Amazon. Like seriously?! It is so disjointed, so out of context, so not age appropriate, and so just...NO. There were a few pages that I appreciated and thought sent a great positive message, but a majority of the alphabet just left me shaking my head. Nice try. Here are a few of the particularly weird ones:
"N is for NO. No! No! No! Yes to what we want. No to what must go! No! No! No!"
""Radical Reds" the headlines said. "Ruinous Rioters!" the Rumors spread. "Rabble Rousing Riff Raff..."...Really?"
"Silly Selfish Scoundrels Sucking on dinosaur Sludge? Boo! Hiss!"
"Did you say box? No! "Vox!" Rocks? Blocks? Socks? "VOX!" Vox of the people. Voice of the populi. Better go see the letter D."
"Z is for Zapatista of course"
"Little d democracy. More than voting, you'll agree. Dictators Detest it. Donkey's Don't get it. But you and me? We Demand equality." (are they saying that democrats don't get it (donkeys..?) say what?)
On a positive note: we were laughing hysterically as we read through it together, so there's that. Thanks for the belly laughs, weirdo.
