Comments on: It’s Not Easy Being Mean: Mrs. Goat and Her Seven Little Kids http://www.justonemorebook.com/2008/02/20/its-not-easy-being-mean-mrs-goat-and-her-seven-little-kids/ A Podcast about the children\'s books we love and why we love them - recorded in our favourite coffee shop. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:03:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Swimming in Literary Soup » Truth in Mom-and-Dad-vertising http://www.justonemorebook.com/2008/02/20/its-not-easy-being-mean-mrs-goat-and-her-seven-little-kids/#comment-312475 Swimming in Literary Soup » Truth in Mom-and-Dad-vertising Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:57:39 +0000 http://www.justonemorebook.com/2008/02/20/its-not-easy-being-mean-mrs-goat-and-her-seven-little-kids/#comment-312475 [...] Mrs. Goat and Her Seven Little Kids [...] […] Mrs. Goat and Her Seven Little Kids […]

]]> By: Andrea Beaty http://www.justonemorebook.com/2008/02/20/its-not-easy-being-mean-mrs-goat-and-her-seven-little-kids/#comment-252605 Andrea Beaty Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:00:39 +0000 http://www.justonemorebook.com/2008/02/20/its-not-easy-being-mean-mrs-goat-and-her-seven-little-kids/#comment-252605 JOMB wrote, "Reminds me of the anvil-crushing, dynamite exploding coyote and roadrunner days of my pre-CareBare youth!!" And that, I think, is a very good thing. Meep! Meep! Andrea B JOMB wrote, “Reminds me of the anvil-crushing, dynamite exploding coyote and roadrunner days of my pre-CareBare youth!!”

And that, I think, is a very good thing.
Meep! Meep!

Andrea B

]]> By: Just One More Book!! http://www.justonemorebook.com/2008/02/20/its-not-easy-being-mean-mrs-goat-and-her-seven-little-kids/#comment-252593 Just One More Book!! Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:46:49 +0000 http://www.justonemorebook.com/2008/02/20/its-not-easy-being-mean-mrs-goat-and-her-seven-little-kids/#comment-252593 well... in addition to the wolf trying to get in and eat all the children and the abuse that the little goats heap on the dim-witted wolf, the book ends with the very prim and mild mannered beer drinking mom (I love that, I need to do a SwimmingInLiterarySoup.com episode singing the praises of beer-drinking moms in picture books!) slapping each of her kids. Not your average 2000-and-something children's book, but in the context of the millions of other books that we read our children, and in the context of the way we treat our children and the way we are raising them to treat others, it's a completely hilarious and ridiculously fun read. Reminds me of the anvil-crushing, dynamite exploding coyote and roadrunner days of my pre-CareBare youth!! Andrea well… in addition to the wolf trying to get in and eat all the children and the abuse that the little goats heap on the dim-witted wolf, the book ends with the very prim and mild mannered beer drinking mom (I love that, I need to do a SwimmingInLiterarySoup.com episode singing the praises of beer-drinking moms in picture books!) slapping each of her kids.

Not your average 2000-and-something children’s book, but in the context of the millions of other books that we read our children, and in the context of the way we treat our children and the way we are raising them to treat others, it’s a completely hilarious and ridiculously fun read. Reminds me of the anvil-crushing, dynamite exploding coyote and roadrunner days of my pre-CareBare youth!!

Andrea

]]> By: Andrea Beaty http://www.justonemorebook.com/2008/02/20/its-not-easy-being-mean-mrs-goat-and-her-seven-little-kids/#comment-252586 Andrea Beaty Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:38:29 +0000 http://www.justonemorebook.com/2008/02/20/its-not-easy-being-mean-mrs-goat-and-her-seven-little-kids/#comment-252586 This book sounds like a scream! Can't wait to get a copy of my own. I was struck by something you said about the violence in this book not being something you'd usually see in a North American title. I wonder if that's a function of the "Disneyfication" of stories here. The need to make them all end happily ever after. For instance, Disney's Little Mermaid ends far differently than the original tale in which Ariel turns into sea foam. Though that can only be a part of the answer. Hmmmm. Andrea Beaty www.AndreaBeaty.com www.ThreeSillyChicks.com This book sounds like a scream! Can’t wait to get a copy of my own. I was struck by something you said about the violence in this book not being something you’d usually see in a North American title. I wonder if that’s a function of the “Disneyfication” of stories here. The need to make them all end happily ever after. For instance, Disney’s Little Mermaid ends far differently than the original tale in which Ariel turns into sea foam.

Though that can only be a part of the answer.
Hmmmm.
Andrea Beaty

http://www.AndreaBeaty.com
http://www.ThreeSillyChicks.com

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