Marcella was Bored

I was bored, too, and so were the children. Maybe I am lucky but there is one thing I would never say that infants suffer from and that's boredom. So when Marcella complains of being bored with her monster book, or television, or running and jumping around, it just didn't ring true to us (as Abigail said, 'I'd never get bored of dancing classes'). Added to the credibility problem was the rather unattractively wooden style of illustration which made Marcella, un unlikely looking cat, rather a cold character. What really ruined it for us, however, was when Stephen suddenly said, 'I bet she runs away, gets miserable and goes back home and lives happily ever after! And, indeed, so she did.

It really didn't seem worth the bother of reading it, after that.