Silly books CAN be written well, and I will prove it

[@alexpapasi61]

Love this!!! ❤❤❤

[@lavenderbookco]

Thank you!! I really appreciate that ❤

[@bjornjonsson6583]

I can list SO many examples on both well and badly written children's books that are "silly" (and I definitley think that a little of both is the best!) Here are a few (not all of them are in English): BADLY WRITTEN *"Goldilocks and the three dinosaurs" - no problem with fairy tale adaptions, if there's a thought behind them. Here, not so much. Goldilocks gets high on sugar (nice...), one dinosaur is Norwegian for some reason and the original concept is smashed into pieces. Like Snoopy said: BLAH! * "Little Virgil" by Ole Lund Kirkegaard (Denmark). A story about a boy who lives in the baker's henhouse and drinks lemonade for breakfast and everything is just plain crazy in a hopeless Danish way. (Sorry, Denmark!) * A Swedish book about a farmer who has a guitar but can't find it. He asks his animals if they know where it is, but they don't even know what it is and makes dumb guesses. Anyway it doesn't matter, because he has had the guitar on his back all along, tralalalala. WELL WRITTEN: *Everything I have read by Julia Donaldson. A very good example of repetition and silly stories with a purpose! *Alice in Wonderland - of course! *Everything by Sven Nordqvist (author of Pettson & Findus) - a warm kind of silly is the best kind of silly. And so many funny details in the pictures!

[@lavenderbookco]

@@bjornjonsson6583 absolutely! It definitely came be done and nothing wrong with having some silly and crazy books to have. It’s all about that balance. I love that you have that attitude too ❤️