{"id":324,"date":"2003-12-17T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-17T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/12\/17\/"},"modified":"2003-12-17T08:03:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-17T08:03:00","slug":"324","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/12\/17\/324\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
\"Don't<\/p>\nOK, here’s a pet peeve. I hate children’s books that try to have a rhyme scheme and don’t, especially if they’re knocking off something well known that originally did it right.<\/p>\n

Case in point is this book I just suffered through tonight called The Berenstain Bears Save Christmas<\/i>. Now the story is all right, but the authors decided to take The Night Before Christmas<\/i> and adapt it to a new story line about the bears, and they didn’t do it well, so they put me through hell.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

It begins with a simple homage to TNBC like this: <\/p>\n

‘Twas the month before Christmas,
and all round the mall
the pre-Christmas traffic
had slowed to a crawl.
The stores were a-selling,
the horns were a-blowing,
the shoppers were
busily to-ing and fro-ing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So far so good, but you turn the page and…<\/p>\n

Even the family that lived
down the sunny dirt road
(for directions just ask
any chipmunk or toad)
and were usually full of
calm Christmas cheer &#151
they too were going
Christmas-crazy this year!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Good grief! I don’t know how anybody could write that, think it’s good, and still be able to walk down the street without tripping themselves. And where was the editor, I wonder? (And it gets even worse.)<\/p>\n

(All quoted passages &copy Harper Collins Publishers, 2003.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, here’s a pet peeve. I hate children’s books that try to have a rhyme scheme and don’t, especially if they’re knocking off something well known that originally did it right. Case in point is this book I just suffered through tonight called The Berenstain Bears Save Christmas. Now the story is all right, but … <\/p>\n

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