Favorite childhood pastimes and mind play don't always survive
translation to picture-book form, but Burnigham's free-floating,
storyless imagination-stretcher is consistently felicitous. Warming
up with an ingenuously visualized "Would you rather your house was
surrounded by water, snow, or jungle," he then entertains, for
example: preposterous disaster ("would you rather an elephant drank
your bath water, an eagle stole your dinner, a pig tried on your
clothes, or a hippo slept in your bed"); onomotopoetic indigestion
("would you rather be made to eat spider stew, slug dumplings,
mashed worms, or drink snail squash"); cost-benefit trade-offs
("would you rather jump in the brambles for 25 , swallow a dead
frog for 50 , stay all night in a creepy house for a dollar"); and
empathetic speculation (the small child who represents "you"
throughout is seen living with various animals in their cage, bowl,
coop, or whatever). The pictures are wonderfully zesty, childlike,
and droll; and Burningham's ending ("or perhaps you would rather
just go to sleep in your own bed") makes the whole exercise a
choice bedtime book, to inspire any child's musings as (s)he drifts
off to sleep. (Kirkus Reviews)
Would you rather drink snail squash or eat mashed worms? Help a witch make stew? Tickle a monkey? Or maybe - if you could really be anyone or do anything in the world - would you rather just be...you?
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