![]() This time around the rules were changed and the result is that we get to have books like this one on the list. After all, it meant that folks like Sandra Boynton, masters of their form, would never be able to be properly praised for their genius. ![]() That was needlessly cruel, I now understand. ![]() Now the last time I conducted this poll I excluded any and all board books from the running. This explains everything!!! Who knew that a board book could stymie an adult so well? That’s probably a good reason why a board book made it onto the list. Okay, first off I’m ashamed to say that though I have read this book to my daughter approximately 1,000 times, I never noticed Mark’s point until now. To me, what makes this book so uniquely great is the meta-joke that the Hippo isn’t allowed to join the group of animals until someone can figure out a rhyme for hippopotamus, but I know from speaking with other parents who missed that joke, that it stands out just on the basis of Boynton’s brilliant drawings and semi-absurd decision to exclude the hippopotamus (and the armadillo). #72 But Not the Hippopotamus by Sandra Boynton (1982) ![]()
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