age appropriateness - one post
Mar. 6th, 2006 01:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adrian_turtleIt would not have been my first choice of all the books in the room, or even my first choice of all the alphabet books in the room. But it's moderately cute and inoffensive, and I'm a very soft touch for someone who toddles over, hands me a book, and sits down in my lap. (Especially when she says "read me p'eas.") The book shows an airplane, with a panel like a window on the airplane, labelled "Aa." Lift the little paper flap to see the apple. Aaah! How exciting! And so on through the alphabet.
*pointing at letters* "D - E - F. dee. What's this?" *pointing at picture of dog*
"Puppy!"
"It does look like a puppy, but I think they meant to draw words that sound like 'd-', like dog..."
"Puppy!!"
"I suppose it is a puppy. Do you want to lift the flap?"
(Under the flap, there is a stylized drawing of a figure with a dress and braids.) "Girl!"
I really don't want to suggest she's wrong about something like that. A drawing like might mean girl as easily as doll, anywhere but the "d" page of an alphabet book. And the concept of an alphabet book seems to be going over her head without parting her hair. I ask about a drawing in the corner of the page, that might be dinosaur or dragon. "What's this?"
"Lizard."
*pointing at letters* "D - E - F. dee. What's this?" *pointing at picture of dog*
"Puppy!"
"It does look like a puppy, but I think they meant to draw words that sound like 'd-', like dog..."
"Puppy!!"
"I suppose it is a puppy. Do you want to lift the flap?"
(Under the flap, there is a stylized drawing of a figure with a dress and braids.) "Girl!"
I really don't want to suggest she's wrong about something like that. A drawing like might mean girl as easily as doll, anywhere but the "d" page of an alphabet book. And the concept of an alphabet book seems to be going over her head without parting her hair. I ask about a drawing in the corner of the page, that might be dinosaur or dragon. "What's this?"
"Lizard."
