Colbert’s deadpan humor traipses into the tactless as he riffs on singsong verse (“I maypoled for a month,/ Learning pagans aren’t my type./ I didn’t cut it as a totem-/ Me no smoke-um the peace pipe”), and the digital illustrations, unskilled by design, mock amateurish art.
The result: a patriotic parody of saccharine, over-earnest picture books.
Starring a dopily earnest, bug-eyed pole seeking a purpose in life, Colbert’s tongue-in-cheek debut picture book was born out of a segment with Maurice Sendak on the Colbert Report, in which the late author/illustrator decried the talentless individuals (particularly celebrities) creating children’s books.
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