Books like Pat the Bunny

One day you're going to open a box of your childhood toys and smell this book. You'll know it immediately. Oh, it's those horrendous flowers of Paul's, you'll think. The book is non-gender-normative. Paul likes flowers. (He seems to gravitate towards ones that smell like grandmothers.) Daddy is...well, Daddy is pretty.Bunny is big. How big is bunny? Soooooooo big! Bunny is vaguely menacing, especially in Judy's book within a book that, like Arabian Nights or If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, expands and undermines the universe of the book we're reading. Who is this story about? Is it Paul and Judy? Is it the bunny? Is it you? Written in 1940, Pat the Bunny was the progenitor of a whole series of touchy children's books, reaching their unholy apex with the That's Not My... series. It's changed not a bit in 75 years. My kid is into it. He waves bye-bye to Paul and Judy. Can you wave bye-bye to Paul and Judy? Paul and Judy will be back for your child's child. Paul will bring flowers. They will still smell fucking terrible.