Book of the Week, with Video!: Me Hungry

editors — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:07:00 GMT

In The Happiest Toddler on the Block, parenting expert Harvey Karp compares toddlers to caveman. In Jeremy Tankard's new picture book, Me Hungry!, the toddler is literally a caveman. And a hilarious one, at that.

When the little caveboy (improbably named Edwin) announces that he's hungry, his parents both respond "Me busy!" So he begins an unorthodox journey to find food, approaching a rabbit, a porcupine, and a tiger. None of these potential meals will cooperate -- until Edwin runs into a wooly mammoth who's just as hungry as he is.

The story, told in two-word chunks of caveman-speak ("Me eat rabbit!""No, me hide!"),will strike a chord with stubborn, snacktime-obsessed toddlers, who will no doubt find the idea of eating a tiger hilarious. Of course, we have an additional reason to endorse this book:

Jeremy Tankard? Kind of a hottie. -- Gwynne Watkins

Me Hungry! (Candlewick Press, 2007) is available for $12.47 on Amazon. Also, there's this cute YouTube video trailer:

Book of the Week appears every other Friday. Sometimes every Friday. We’re fickle like that.

But Can He Spell Troglodyte?

Adrienne Martini — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Is a toddler just a caveman at heart? In Dr. Harvey Karp's opinion every toddler is just a club-wielding, grunting troglodyte.

Dr. Karp is best known for his Happiest Baby on the Block books and DVDs. Now he's turning his eye to the knee-biters. At heart, Karp contends, a toddler is "primitive, an emotion-driven, instinctive creature who need to be spoken to in short sentences." And, incidentally, are just barely Homo sapiens.

What do you think? Are toddlers barely human?

Image Credit: Bunnycup Embroidery

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Book of the Week, with Video!: Me Hungry

But Can He Spell Troglodyte?