u/suspicious_trout

Picture book circa 2004. A family is on a picnic. They have a boulliabase, or possibly a babaganoush (sic)? One kid gets stung by a bee so they go in a pond to avoid more bee stings.

A picture book I remember reading when I was about 7-8 years old so that would have been ~2004? A family goes out for a picnic and bring a boulliabase. A group of bees goes after one kid and the kid goes underwater to avoid them. I don't remember anything else except I liked the illustrations and I thought the word boulliabase was funny.

So this guy makes ancient egyptian themed furry costumes. He makes all kinds but mostly he specializes in Horus heads. It's his passion really. He loves to make the beautiful falcon head of the Sun God.

He's at a con one day and he sees a whole bunch of people in middle kingdom dress with these indistinguishable animal heads. He thinks to himself, "Oh man these folks could really use a new source, I can't even tell what animal those are!" So he goes over and he says "Hey guys! i see you are into ancient egyptian mythological themed furry costumes--if any of you are interested in being the radiant Son of Ra. I am the BEST in the business!" The group of people look at each other, then at him, awkwardly. Finally one of them says: "uh. no thanks. we're all Set."