The Call of Cthulhu for beginning readers

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The Call of Cthulhu for beginning readers

1WeeTurtle
Mar 3, 2022, 2:19 am

This. is. awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glOLHN-hTho

I think it's been around a few years, but I found it recently and it's delightful! The books is for sale on amazon and from the publishers it looks like. Might need it for my children's library.

2gwendetenebre
Mar 3, 2022, 8:49 am

>1 WeeTurtle:

Nice find! Rather than mocking, it takes the story seriously. And it works!

3elenchus
Mar 3, 2022, 9:27 am

I'm pleasantly surprised the Seuss foundation apparently didn't push copyright infringement (the images are recognisably Seussian, not to mention the couplet rhyme scheme).

4WeeTurtle
Apr 11, 2022, 4:14 am

>3 elenchus: The images certainly look like it, but I'm not sure they can claim the rhyme scheme. I've read some old poetry written in the same meter. It was hilariously bad, all the more so because of how much it sounded like Seuss.

5paradoxosalpha
Edited: Apr 11, 2022, 10:30 am

>3 elenchus:

I don't think they'd have much of a case. There's a wide latitude for satire and parody in intellectual property, and I don't imagine the publisher was marketing the book to preschools and children's librarians!