First, I’ll say sorry if I don’t do this right. I am actually a requester here but I’ve wanted to help someone in some way, any way that I possibly could. I just didn’t have the means to do so. So I hope this can help someone.
I have 3 6/9 month girl brand new outfits from the children’s place and a book (will attach pictures) I’d like to send to a mom, dad, soon to be parent, really anyone that this would help. I have to thank the Anonymous Santa and u/coralsquirrel both who purchased the same book from my sons list. The second copy we received is included as part of this with the ok to use one as part of this offer. (Getting the extra copy is what had me thinking of what else I could pull together to try to pay forward in some small way how amazing this community has been). So this is what I have an I’m hoping there is someone out there that can use this for their little one. This book is the very first book I ever read to my daughter, It was a library book I checked out week after week when I was in kindergarten (as soon as I could). I also know my son is going to love it, I’d like to give it to another parent that will enjoy reading it to their lil one as much as I did and will.
This is open for anyone that is registered and in the US. Sorry someone is helping me with shipping costs an I don’t know much about shipping outside the US. This will not count as a “gift” an if this fits more than one person I will check with mods to figure out a fair way to pick who it will go to. I’ll leave open for a few days an see how it goes. Hopefully this is all done ok.
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PLEASE do NOT recommend The Very Hungry Caterpillar to me because you think it’s brilliant. Please do not try to explain to me that it is a “really interesting and eye opening book.” Just don’t. Please.
I’ve read Jeff Kinney, I heart Harry Potter and the Halfblood Prince, Dav Pilkey is my hero, Lincoln Pierce is My Absolute Favorite, I listen to The Wiggles on a fairly regular basis, and young adult fantasy/Wizarding World/District 13-tinged num nums make me a very happy girl... but if you truly believe Carle’s stupid picture book has ANY right whatsoever to be placed in the same category with Judy “Are You There God” Blume, let alone JK Rowling, kindly keep this opinion very far away from me, or the ensuing conversation we have will not be constructive or polite in any way.
I loathe Eric Carle. I resent him for spoon-feeding the masses pseudo-intellectual “Insect Biology” D-grade YA picture book shite under a pretense of real sophistication, and getting orally serviced by The New York Times for his effort.
I heard that the novel was meticulously researched and contained some really interesting and controversial assessments of caterpillar diets. Um, not really? Well not by my Potterian standards, anyway. :D
Let’s put it this way. If Eric Carle was teaching on Dietary Habits of Caterpillars in Biology and Geography 101 class at my local community college, I’d definitely have a very different opinion of him.
But NO. Eric Carle is not a professor of anything but pap. He is a barely competent young adult writer who wrote an AWFUL book that I could not bear to finish because I felt my IQ plummeting a little further with every “Let’s Eat a New Fruit! Guidebook” description and blowhard authorial essay. Oh, don’t even get me started about those cute soliloquies the main characters are so fond of delivering, ever so calmly, often while hunger and starvation are chasing them down.
The characters are weakly drawn. The dialogue is excruciating. The research is shoddy and self-serving at best. The plot, no matter how open-minded you are, is beyond ludicrous. It’s laughable enough to be incorporated into the next The Rainbow Fish movie. That’d be sweet, dude.
What really irks me are Eric Carle’s sanctimonious interviews, wherein he shows off all of his priceless cocoons while expressing his abiding convictions that the American public needs a “deeper appreciation” of caterpillars and food and eating. What a shallow, self-aggrandizing hypocrite. I’m all for fict
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Due to popular demand and outrage at the first choice out boo will be The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Don’t read past page four, next meeting is at 6:40 am tomorrow.
Pardon me for the delay, I had shit to do that wasn’t browse reddit. We’ll be discussing the first four pages of the book and what you thought of it in the comments.
That motherfucker could eat a metric fuck ton of food. Nobody could stop this absolutely badass caterpillar from literally eating gigantic fucking pears, strawberries, even fucking sandwiches and ice cream, like holy fucking shit what kind of bad ass caterpillar fucking eats ice cream like it’s no big fucking deal
The first time I read the Very Fucking Hungry Caterpilllar I fucking threw the fucking book at my fucking step dad and shrieked my little fucking lungs out, then I galloped on all fours to the fridge where I ate everything in that bitch until I purged my body of the sins that were bestowed upon me by that unholy demonic book, 10/10 would eat that glorious fucking book again
Round 1: The first contest will be in the restaraunt where the pumkin went. The food served will be the ones in the game. The one who eats everything the fastest wins. The pumkin won't be picky this round.
Round 2: This time in the wilderness. Both characters have to find and eat as much food there as possible in 10 minutes. The pumkin won't be picky.
Bonus round: Both get angry and start to fight each other. They will both be the same size. Who would win.
Let the challenge begin.
