As I read books, and not just children’s books, I often detect misspellings. Once, as I was reading a book, a random name appeared in the middle of it and it took me a while to figure out that the author must have changed the name of her hero and missed one!
Today, I opened up the book I was going to read for Story-time and found this:
Someone did not have a very good proof reader. I’m pretty sure no one is named “Pop-Up.” Now that I live in slower lower Delaware, I know what this term is supposed to be. It’s supposed to be that child’s endearment for his grandfather, “Pop-Pop.” As in, “Papa’s Papa.” lol
This gave my coworkers and me a good laugh this morning. Pop-Up. lol Too funny.
Someone needs to either hire a proof reader, or fire the one they already have.
Haha I love finding misspellings too. And I also once read a book where partway through the author definitely changed something and didn’t notice it. I can’t remember what, but it was SO odd and really confused me for a while.
That’s really funny. Is that the only reference to “Pop Up”?
By: jenmarie33 on February 16, 2013
at 7:17 am
That was the absolute only time the Grandfather is mentioned in the book. On the first page. lol
By: Becka on February 18, 2013
at 11:29 am