Over the years we've found that every family member has at least one picture book that scared the snot out of them, to the general amusement of the rest of our heartless clan.
Quite often, the revulsion towards that one book lasts until adulthood.
How do I know the revulsion can last that long? Because, The Eye Book, by Theo. LeSieg scared me to death. Smiling boy and rabbit aside, innumerable are the childhood nightmares that centered around the eyes peeping out of the hole. It still gives me the shudders to turn that page.
As I was taking this next picture, my 2 year old saw the cover of Llama Llama Red Pajama, by Anna Dewdney, and backed away. Evidently his empathy skills are quite developed; the Llama's terror in this picture terrifies him. He won't even look at the page.
You might think that he would have just avoided this book- but no, he loved it... except for the ultra terrifying picture that would bring him to tears if we forgot to skip the page.
Prepare yourself for the horrors of.....
THE PUFFER FISH
Yes, a puffer fish. My son was absolutely petrified of it.
It's o.k., early evidence to the contrary, my 18 year old is not afraid of shadows, and though he has never wanted an aquarium he does has friends. The son terrified by the puffer fish is the same son who just finished making this short:
The Interview... from Luke Tipton on Vimeo.
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That is an interesting bit of information to know... hehe.
Brittany,
Use your powers for good... or at least make it really funny.
But, but, he is so cute!!!! The puffer fish. He looks like a cartoon character :-)
Happy FGF!!!!!
oh my goodness, how funny! That bald monkey is petrifying, and the eye book? EW!
BUT...Puffer fish. That's blackmail material right there.
Your blog always cracks me up. You're a fountain of funny!
Hysterical! I personally think that Llama picture with the big eyes is a little scary, too. One of my daughters loved the movie Mary Poppins, but would always hide behind the couch at the part where the old guy gets the joke about the "wooden leg named Smith" and wheezes a laugh and floats into the air. Something about it terrified her, but she loved to be scared! Found you from "Feel Good Friday" and will be back to read more!
so funny, I think we have that llama book around here somewhere. Have A Great Friday!!
dollycas
http://dollycas.blogspot.com/
I'm too scared to comment after seeing all those pictures.
Ho ho.
Interesting. I wonder what it is about each thing that makes it so scary?
I'm still afraid of the tentacles in the first War of The Worlds movie. I am afraid of them coming out from under my bed.
Purplume, Tentacles shouldn't come out of anything, especially from under beds!
JoAnn, I missed my blackmailing leverage by publishing this. Drat.
I agree with you Girl, the puffer fish is just plain cute.
While you were busy this Friday looking for scary pictures and books (LOL!), I've been very busy with my social networking lately!
Which brings me to the reason for this post:
I am really very sorry that this is a form letter :(
However we spent days following everyone on the Simply Follow list from the Mom Bloggers Club, and out of 690 people, maybe only 10 followed us :(
I don’t know if you joined our blog or not, but if you have a moment, could you PLEASE go over to http://www.kiboomu.blogspot.com and give us a quick follow?
Again, sorry for this form letter, but I am going to to back to ALL 690+ people that we followed and leaving this note. Hopefully we will get a super great turnout now!
BTW I LOVE YOUR BLOG!!
XOXOXO
Wendy
You know what all my boys were afraid of??? The Giving TRee...just terrified of it!
How funny, huh?
Interesting post,thank you.
OK, watched your son's video and HOLY COW!
That was one of the neatest shorts I've seen. The slow footage, the angles, the musics...very promising!
And he's only 18???
Man, he's got a future ....
Thank you, and I'd be proud, too.
Richard Scarry. Never could get past the name.
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