This book is part of the Pat the Bunny Playtime series, and I must say although the video of Pat the Bunny is highly entertaining albeit a little bit creepy (okay, so maybe it ranks pretty high up there on the parental creepy factor, but the kids absolutely LOVED it. LOVED it. More than anything else. I don't even want to describe the coercive amount of trickery it took to get that stupid dvd back to the library...)
Anyhow, this is a book about beards.
Yep, a children's book about men's facial hair. It even shows some animals that have facial hair too (like elephants, cats, catfish, tigers, lions, etc.-- you know, all those crazy hairy animals out there).
The only part of this book that I did not fully appreciate was a page early in which poses the question to the reader, "Is Mummy's face scratchy?" because I feel this could be interpreted very honestly by some children who do in fact have mothers with facial hair. I'm not going to speak ill of bearded women or even women with slight bristling, because I do realize that there is nothing that can be done short of swapping out some DNA (and don't forget that handy dandy hormone- TESTOSTERONE!). So for all of the scratchy faced, mustached mommies- this probably isn't the book for you. But for all of those seven o' clock (and two o'clock, five o'clock, and seventy-two hour) shadowed men for whom facial hair is a fact of life (like it or not) this is the book for you.
In fact, it kind of made me wish I had a beard so I could have my daughter's pretend-shave while I got ready for work. But that is a role reserved for daddies. Even though face-shaving skills won't come in handy until atleast after menopause for my little ladies. (I hope).
Golden Book, 2005.
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