Whatever their origin, this book is too cute to miss. Not for the story, so much, although it's cute enough. What stole my heart (and made the book seriously overdue at the library) were the pictures of Max writing out "Red Hot Marshmallow Squirters" and hoping that the grocer would give them to him.
This is a book I will buy, and like "I love you", that's not a phrase I use lightly. I suspect it's the cheapness.
It clearly brings out my inner snark (although she's not buried too far below the surface), and snarkiness + bedtime story = general badness.
The best thing about the Wednesday Book Shelf is that it makes finding books like this feel like a great discovery. "Yay!" I cry, usually in the middle of the library, "It's a bad kids book! Just what I was looking for!"
They love me at the library.