This Adult’s Brutally Honest Review Of Children’s Book Will Have You Cracking Up
Most of us are familiar with the coveted Oprah’s Book Club list, but where do you turn to for children’s book recommendations? Well, look no further than the Imgur thread, ‘Kaitlin Critiques A Children’s Book,’ where online user Kaitlin has posted each page of children’s book ‘A Hungry Lion or A Dwindling Assortment of Animals,’ with hilarious commentary.
The young library associate told Bored Panda her inspiration for the project struck one slow winter shift at her first library job, working the circulation desk.
“I was extremely bored so I opened up one of the children’s books that had been checked in and just started reading it. It was a book about skiing squirrels and I thought it was hilarious so I started snapchatting my reactions to it.” She said originally she just shared her ‘reviews’ with friends on snapchat until her sister told her to post them to Facebook.
The twenty-six-year-old said she thinks she’s made about 20 reviews, however, her critique of the lion book is the first one she has posted to Imgur. To Kaitlin’s surprise, the thread has been a big hit.
“I was surprised that people actually thought I was funny and wanted more. My friends asked me to do more and gave requests. I was pretty floored by the response on Imgur,” she said.
In her commentaries, she mentions everything from the character’s crazy facial expressions to pointing out major plot holes. But it’s these characteristics that the Chicago woman loves about this genre of books, “Anything can happen in a children’s book and that child will accept it regardless of how off the wall it is.”
Scroll down below for the full review of ‘A Hungry Lion or A Dwindling Assortment of Animals’ !
Chicago woman Kaitlin has received some online attention for her unique take on children’s books
The library associate has been posting book critiques
And we have to say they are pretty hilarious
Each page contains comments on everything from illustrations
To some author plotholes
She even added in some ‘lessons’ kids can learn from the story
People loved the thread and are asking for more
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great advert for the book, wouldn't surprise me if book companies did more of this sort of review.
I am *seriously* considering buying this for my friend and her 1-year-old. It is exactly her sense of humour and if she has any influence on the matter, it will probably be his too.
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Lol this is awesome. I must get this for my nephew. He needs to understand that there are consequences in life as he gets older, and getting eaten by a T-Rex is one of those consequences. Note: Eat friends who try to do something nice to you....get eaten by a dinosaur.
Never mind the review - I'm just traumatised by the book. It it really a kids book?
1) Please no more "Brutally Honest" in titles 2) This is a really weird way to spoil the narrative of a book
OMG! I thought my kiddo and I were the only ones who loved super sneak ending kids books. AWESOME😂😂😂😂
That reminds me of being a Counselor in training at a summer camp. There was this one book about a bear and a duck being friends. (an odd combination if you ask me) A counselor was reading it to a camper. At one point, the bear is cooking something up in a big cauldron with a chef's hat on. Duck:What's that smell? Me: I'm making duck soup! The counselor was cracking up. No, sadly this book did not end with the bear eating the duck.
Oket !?? ... Well .. that was weird .. WTF was the purpose behind this story ..
Lions are carnivore and don't like cake. Turtles cannot be digested. Dinosaurs that are not invited to parties will eat the birthday boy and get extinct one page later. A lot of lessons...
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It was all a sinister plot masterminded by the evil turtle to get all the birthday cake.
Yea cause kids aren't f**ked up from the Common Core and other stupid stuff in school these days...
This is almost as bad as the book a teacher-relative gave us for my son that had won some stupid award: "Catch That Baby Up"...Yea, that's the real title...burned in my brain cause it's so stupid. I threw it away
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great advert for the book, wouldn't surprise me if book companies did more of this sort of review.
I am *seriously* considering buying this for my friend and her 1-year-old. It is exactly her sense of humour and if she has any influence on the matter, it will probably be his too.
Load More Replies... Lol this is awesome. I must get this for my nephew. He needs to understand that there are consequences in life as he gets older, and getting eaten by a T-Rex is one of those consequences. Note: Eat friends who try to do something nice to you....get eaten by a dinosaur.
Never mind the review - I'm just traumatised by the book. It it really a kids book?
1) Please no more "Brutally Honest" in titles 2) This is a really weird way to spoil the narrative of a book
OMG! I thought my kiddo and I were the only ones who loved super sneak ending kids books. AWESOME😂😂😂😂
That reminds me of being a Counselor in training at a summer camp. There was this one book about a bear and a duck being friends. (an odd combination if you ask me) A counselor was reading it to a camper. At one point, the bear is cooking something up in a big cauldron with a chef's hat on. Duck:What's that smell? Me: I'm making duck soup! The counselor was cracking up. No, sadly this book did not end with the bear eating the duck.
Oket !?? ... Well .. that was weird .. WTF was the purpose behind this story ..
Lions are carnivore and don't like cake. Turtles cannot be digested. Dinosaurs that are not invited to parties will eat the birthday boy and get extinct one page later. A lot of lessons...
Load More Replies... It was all a sinister plot masterminded by the evil turtle to get all the birthday cake.
Yea cause kids aren't f**ked up from the Common Core and other stupid stuff in school these days...
This is almost as bad as the book a teacher-relative gave us for my son that had won some stupid award: "Catch That Baby Up"...Yea, that's the real title...burned in my brain cause it's so stupid. I threw it away
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