Curious Pages: Recommended Inappropriate Boooks for Kids

Ah, blogs. Those tireless chroniclers of the esoteric. Whatever your fancy, you can rest assured it's being thoroughly documented on a web log of some sort. And sure, you have your politic blogs and your headline news. You've got celeb gossip and tech tips coverage. But at the end of the day, most of us just want to kick our legs up and read a slightly inappropriate children's book. Right? Of course we do. Which is we love Curious Pages, archivers of "the offbeat, the abstract, the unusual, the surreal, the macabre, the inappropriate, the subversive and the funky." In books for kids. A blog in which:

• We find Shel Silverstein none-too-subtly encouraging youngsters to smash open their parents' television sets to reveal the magical elves that live inside, to pee their pants rather than risk falling into the toilet, and to forget about ever going to the Land of Oz or meeting Santa Claus (neither are real, apparently). He does, however, suggest a trip to Detroit.

• We discover a book detailing various cocktails easy enough for a toddler to make, without all the hassle of sending your baby to after-school mixology classes.

• We acquire some rather effective nightmare fodder in the form of a marionette named Captain Jeff.

• We learn that Dr. Seuss wrote a series of books entitled Boners, More Boners, and Still More Boners.

In conclusion:
Is this blog a must read? Of course not.

Is this blog as wonderful, hilarious, and endlessly amusing as anything else on the internet? Are ponies awesome? Absolutely.      

Shel Silverstein's Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book

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Captain Jeff and the Squeeze Box