Smashing up the neighbour's home
Well, here is a children's book that encourages you to break into somebody's house and then run amok smashing everything! Why do I say that? Because that is what the two protagonists, a bird and a mouse, are doing. Firstly the mouse opens the window and invites the bird in. Then they run around pointing out all of the items that one can find in a house until such a time as they knock over a bunch of valuable items creating a massive mess. However they are caught and thrown out (which is probably the better way of looking at it because I suspect that real people would not be as kind to a couple of animals running amok in their house).
As for a book (and ignoring my perspective that it encourages breaking into people's houses, and I can just see the judge shaking his head in disbelief when somebody claims that the reason that he broke into his neighbours house was because he had been influenced, as a kid, by Dr Suess' 'In a People House') the rhyme that he uses is really good, and it is much better than that Little Golden Book I read that was about Dinosaurs where the writer tries to use a rhyming pattern, as well as meter, and then tosses it away in frustration, only to try it again on the next page. Dr Suess (aka Theo LeSieg) seems to have a very good ability to use rhyme and meter which he does excellently in this book.
However, if you try to translate it into German it completely falls apart (and I am not going to attempt to even consider translating it into Ancient Greek, though I believe that it is possible). Also, Dr Suess (aka Theo LeSieg) uses alliteration very effectively. Once again if I were to attempt to translate it into German (or Ancient Greek) then the alliteration would be completely destroyed. I know because I attempted to do that as I was reading the book and I noticed that the beautiful rhyme, meter, and alliteration were completely destroyed.
