Skippyjon Jones and the Big Bones Book

Reading Bellsy's review* of another Skippyjon Jones book a couple weeks ago reminded me that I actually had one floating around the house somewhere that I'd never read. I think it was a dollar deal or in some other book bundle that I ordered from my son's Scholastic book order (man, I still love the shit out of those things), so I thought I'd give it a try and see if it would be just as bad. It was.

To be fair, I've never read any books in this series, but you would think that wouldn't be entirely necessary to even have a little understanding of what's going on in the current book, right? First off, what the hell is Skippyjon anyway? This information was not made clear. Is he a cat that thinks he's a chihuahua? Or is he a chihuahua raised by cats? Was there some vital character development in the previous Skippyjon books that I've missed out on? The story starts out with "kitty boy" sneaking off with another dog's bone. What happens after that, I really can't tell you, because I honestly didn't understand it. There was a reference to bad breath, some dinosaurs showed up, and some awful confusing songs were sung. Really, it made no sense. But I guess that was alright, because in the end, it all turned out to be a dream. Yep, the good old cop-out "it was a dream" ending (oh, spoiler alert).

Thank God I gave this a trial run and read it to myself. Reading it with the kids would've been terrible for the following reasons:

-It's frustrating as hell
-I wouldn't want to have to sing those stupid songs (with clapping!)
-I don't think I would ever be able to comfortably read the phrase "He popped a pickle in his puss" aloud to my children.




*Bellsy's review: I don't know how to do that words-become-automatic-link-thing.