The quality control on kids books is honestly a little horrifying sometimes 
there are some straight up BAD toddler books out there.
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This bothers me SO much. There should be a single serving website like “Does the Dog Die” for movies but it’s “Does the Book Rhyme.”
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I just downloaded the app. Thank you for making me aware of this. Now i never have to watch movies with child death or abuse again!
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It’s a genius idea and I wish it existed for more things!
“Does the rhythm (meter? IDK) change on just two of the pages in the middle and throw off your groove?”
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“Does rhyme structure depend on strange affectations of foreign accents that the author doesn’t actually have, and you don’t either, and you’re gonna feel REAL weird about it?”
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Rappy the Raptor was a fun one for me to read because it had great rhythm, but kiddos weren’t into it 
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I’m going to use this opportunity complain about this book. It switches between present and past tense for no apparent reason several times throughout the book. why.
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I know you don’t have a ton of free time, but if you were ever interested in reviewing children’s books…I am familiar with that whole process. It doesn’t pay but sometimes you get free books out of it.
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Oh hell yeah I’d love that. Starting point: dear authors, make some of the trucks girls, and not just the small ones 
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Needless to say some of the books we own are heavily edited
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That’s the perspective that is needed in the industry IMO!!
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Currently chillin with my daughter who is wearing an excavator shirt. I def have a dog in the fight.
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Well if you ever have a season of life that allows for a book reviewing hobby, let me know! It’s a bit easier to break into if you’re a teacher or librarian, but you are a great writer and I have confidence you could get into it with a bit of work on samples!
ETA: also easier if you have a blog. Even if it’s bare bones.
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So I should write a book with a girl truck main character with predominantly girl trucks and a number of boy trucks equal to the typical percentage of girl trucks?
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If by “typical percentage” you mean ZERO then yes. Goodnight Construction Site is an otherwise excellent book, but of 5 or 6 trucks (I can’t recall) ZERO are girls. In the follow up books there’s a further 12 trucks, and only a skid steer (tiny) with a bow on her head is a girl. 
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In our house, every other truck is a she/her. If I’d been on my game more before taking a sharpie to the books I would have made one non-binary.
ETA I will say that Katy and the big snow is a good one with a female bulldozer who happens to be female but is just about a big strong truck.
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And the boy trucks are always forgetting something, or complaining about how they didn’t realize how hard it was to do X (which the girl trucks do all the time)….
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Haha yes we have a few permanently changed, and otherwise I sometimes do it on the fly. She does have a NB bear (they/them pronouns, helps us practice too) but yeah I should do NB characters while reading more! She doesn’t seem bothered at all when I change a book’s pronouns which is saying something because she does a lot of correcting otherwise
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