Subverting the Reader

by Mark on April 19, 2009

Since we here at Storybird are a) all about the children and b) all about the books, we could not help notice (and then not forget) My First Dictionary—a wry, dark, and subversive hijack of Dick and Jane Reader illustrations by British librarian Ross Horsley.

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If you haven’t guffawed any coffee onto your monitor yet, we’re upping the ante with this anonymous redraft of the Ladybird Book of The Policeman.

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Thanks to Amy Kraft at Media Macaroni for tweeting about My First Dictionary and our very own Tyler Payne for the The Ladybird Book of The Policeman tip.