I Am A Pole (And So Can You!) (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
One of my wife's ex-students laughingly demanded that she read to our daughter more often. I read one small Winnie the Pooh book to my girl and now this.Wife is a big Stephen Colbert fan. I'm a fan of him in small doses. I mean really small doses. Like twenty page is just about perfect.My wife and I laughed a lot because it's incredibly stupid. Yes, there is a picture of a stripper. But don't worry about my daughter's innocence and call child protection services. My daughter not even born yet. She didn't understand a word I said but hopefully she's at least getting used to my voice. In this parody of children's picture books, a pole searches for its identity and purpose in life. As he moves from possibility to possibility--a Gallup poll, a ski pole, a barber pole, a stripper's pole--he really struggles, at one point, even admitting to s aummer spent with the phone poles "getting totally strung out" (unpaged). The brief text on each page as well as the illustrations and even the "Caldecott Eligible" book sticker on the cover are liable to prompt guffaws from bibliophiles and children's literature fans. Although some of the pole examples aren't particularly funny, several are, and show the poor pole's struggle for a place in the world. Memorable? Nah! Amusing and acerbic? Absolutely!
What do You think about I Am A Pole (And So Can You!) (2012)?
Hilarious! I saw the episode and bought the book. Top 10 comedians of all time.
—Janet
