Children's Literature In Your Pants
A few days ago, bookshelves of doom pointed me to John Green's video blog, which he shares with his brother and to which I have since become heavily addicted. A few days ago John featured a long bit about the "In Your Pants" literature game. Basically, you find book titles that go very well with the phrase "in your pants" tacked on to the end. John went around his house and found a bunch of books that play this game well, and presented them to the camera. (The best part is watching him desperately try to keep a straight face while doing this.)
Watching this, of course, made me immediately run to my own bookshelves to find titles that could play. (My husband's response as I eagerly held them over my head was to sigh heavily and mutter something about "immaturity." Okay, fine.)
Of course, 99% of my books are for kids, and the problem was that too many of them worked. Take these, for example:
The Tale of Two Bad Mice In Your Pants
(very, very bad mice)
What Katy Did In Your Pants(the thrilling tell-all confessional!)
Millions of Cats In Your Pants(ouch)
Nobody Asked Me If I Wanted A Baby Sister In My Pants
(it's only common courtesy to ask)
And Finally . . .
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day In Your Pants
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From L.M. Montgomery: Emily Climbs in Your Pants
From Louisa May Alcott: An Old-Fashioned Girl in Your Pants
From Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Long Winter in Your Pants
From C.S. Lewis: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe in Your Pants (crowded!)
From Madeleine L'Engle: A Wind in the Door in Your Pants
And... From Louis Sachar: Holes in Your Pants!
From J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit in Your Pants
From Orson Scott Card: Xenocide in Your Pants
From Patrick O'Brian: The Hundred Days in Your Pants (someone needs a shower!)
From James Harriott: All Creatures Great and Small in Your Pants
From Tom Clancy: Clear and Present Danger in Your Pants
From Gabriel Garcia Marquez: 100 Years of Solitude in Your Pants
and...Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead in Your Pants
This is too much fun!
From Dr. Seuss: Green Eggs and Ham in Your Pants
(Yuck!)
From Bill Martin Jr: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See in Your Pants?
(That's a rhetorical question.)
From Grace Lin: The Ugly Vegetables in Your Pants
(I'm not making soup with them!)
From Jack Gantos: Joey Pigza Loses Control in Your Pants
From Chandra & Comora: George Washington's Teeth in Your Pants
(Don't tell Martha.)
From James Marshall: Miss Nelson Is Back in Your Pants
From Linda Williams: The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything in Your Pants
(Intrepid woman, eh?)
From Kevin Henkes: A Weekend with Wendell in Your Pants
From Lauren Stringer: Winter is the Warmest Season in Your Pants
From Keiko Kasza: My Lucky Day in Your Pants
From Maurice Sendak: Chicken Soup with Rice in Your Pants
(Squish)
From Laurence Yep: The Man Who Tricked a Ghost in Your Pants
From Meghan McCarthy: Aliens Are Coming! in Your Pants
A FEW POETRY TITLES
From Adam Rex: Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich in Your Pants
From Lilian Moore: I Never Did That Before in Your Pants
From Jack Prelutsky: The Beauty of the Beast in Your Pants
Where the Wild Things Are In Your Pants.
A Single Shard In Your Pants.
(Ouch!)
The Eye The Ear and the Arm In Your Pants.
(Either this is a gruesome true-crime story, or someone is still learning to dress himself.)
Back again!
From Wilson Rawls: Where the Red Fern Grows in Your Pants
From Gary Soto: Too Many Tamales in Your Pants
From Paul Goble: Iktomi Loses His Eyes in Your Pants
(An optical conclusion)
From Margot Zemach: It Could Always Be Worse in Your Pants
(Just ask the rabbi!)
From Kate & Jim McMullan: I Stink! in Your Pants
From Robin Pulver: Punctuation Takes a Vacation in Your Pants
From Pamela Duncan Edwards: Some Smug Slug in Your Pants
(EW!!!)
From Elinor J. Pinczes: One Hundred Hungry Ants in Your Pants
(Yikes! Get the Raid!)
From Kathryn Lasky: The Man Who Made Time Travel in Your Pants
From Nadine Wescott: Never Take a Pig to Lunch in Your Pants
From J. Patrick Lewis: A World of Wonders in Your Pants
How about some classics:
From Carol Brink: Two Are Better Than One in Your Pants
From Sylvia Louise Engdahl: Journey Between Worlds in Your Pants
From Jean Little: One to Grow On in Your Pants
From Ellen Raskin: Figs and Phantoms in Your Pants
From Norma Johnston: Myself and I in Your Pants
From Louise Fitzhugh: The Long Secret in Your Pants
From John Fitzgerald: The Great Brain in Your Pants
From M.T. Anderson: Feed in Your Pants
From Susan Cooper: The Dark is Rising in Your Pants
For Mo Willems fans:
Time to Pee in Your Pants!
The Pigeon Loves Things That Go in Your Pants!
The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog in Your Pants!
Today I Will Fly in Your Pants!
Leonardo, the Terrible Monster in Your Pants!
don't forget Robert Cormier's classic
I Am The Cheese In Your Pants
or A A Milne's charming
Now We Are Six In Your Pants
From Guy Gavriel Kay: The Lord Of Emperors In your Pants
From Stephen Covey: The 7 habits of Highly Effective People In Your Pants (Now that's a book many people should read!)
From Søren Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling In Your Pants (Don't know why, but this one sounds rather creepy to me)
Marilyn said: Holes in your pants
Fuzz Frenzie in your pants
Runaway Bunny in your pants
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