From the way she reacted I wonder if she even bothered to *talk* to the kid about what bothered him so she could make him feel better herself. Much better to just write an angry letter to the American publisher.:-)
Oddly, we had another book that used to freak kids out--and sometimes they'd like it and then it would later bother them. Whichever the way it was this one picture that kids always focused on. It was in this book about a zookeeper where the animals all follow him home. There was a page where he goes to sleep and he says "good-night" to his wife and he hears all these "good-night's" from all the animals. He opens his eyes in surprise and the picture is all black with just the eyes. That was the page kids focused on. Sometimes they'd think it was hilarious and then grow to be afraid of it. Sometimes the opposite. But that picture fascinated them. A lot of kids referred to the book as simply, "The Eyes."
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Date: 2006-04-30 01:52 pm (UTC)Oddly, we had another book that used to freak kids out--and sometimes they'd like it and then it would later bother them. Whichever the way it was this one picture that kids always focused on. It was in this book about a zookeeper where the animals all follow him home. There was a page where he goes to sleep and he says "good-night" to his wife and he hears all these "good-night's" from all the animals. He opens his eyes in surprise and the picture is all black with just the eyes. That was the page kids focused on. Sometimes they'd think it was hilarious and then grow to be afraid of it. Sometimes the opposite. But that picture fascinated them. A lot of kids referred to the book as simply, "The Eyes."