Unicorn vs. Goblins: Another Phoebe and Her Unicorn Adventure
POESY I like the part where Phoebe goes to music camp and Marigold makes a friend At this point Cory asked Poesy to draw a Phoebe and Marigold on a rocket skateboard playing music POESY You mean a hoverboard Marigold pheobe gold phеobe
CORY It's easy to compare Phoebe to Calvin and Marigold to Hobbes I did it when I reviewed that first collection If Hobbes was a snarky unicorn and Calvin was an awesome little girl but Calvin was kind of a creep especially to little girls By contrast Phoebe has a very well-adjusted relationship with the young dudes in her life and still manages to be funny as heck when they come around I love LOVE how Dana finesses the way that Phoebe's parents relate to Marigold too Calvin's mom and dad rolled their eyes every time Calvin talked with spittle flecked excitement about his imaginary friend But Phoebe's parents are cooled out by Marigold's SHIELD OF BORINGNESS which means that they can react to her as if she were just one of Phoebe s little pals albeit a pal with a horn hooves and magic powers But best of all is Marigold I mean her last name is HEAVENLY NOSTRILS Say that aloud with me HEAVENLY NOSTRILS How much fun is that to say All the mischief the pure id and self-centered delightful sociopathy sociopathy of youth is evenly divided between Phoebe and Marigold They re each other's best friends and worst influences When Sesame Street launched the show was all kids jokes Think of Barney the $#@@{!#* Dinosaur About as much fun for adults as a fiberglass smoothie But Jim Henson and the Children's Television Workshop pulled the show and went back
to the drawing board redesigning it so that it had as many adult jokes as kid ones and so that adults and kids would have a reason to sit and watch together Whatever value the show had they reasoned it would be multiplied if parents and kids shared an experience together if they had something to talk about after The same principle guided the design of Disneyland Walt Disney was sick of sitting on the sidelines watching his daughters go around and around the Griffith Park carousel so he built a theme park full of stuff that kids could bring their grown-ups on The rest is history Poesy is now singing a Spice Girls song Where did she learn that There's just enough humor here that sails over kids heads and lands squarely on their grown-ups to make this an indispensable read for adults but there's also an infinitude of kid stuff that we both laughed at I love so many things about this book but most of all I love that we read it together Poesy Taylor Doctorow age 7 Cory Doctorow age 44 Burbank California August 2015
what is up I have my dad's I suspect my parents are up laptop to something so I'm checking out dad's browser history His last search was for hello Phoebe i know you're reading this It is almost as if he has met you
