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A kid has personal belongings stolen and is upset by it (fair). The parents do nothing to help and they leave the playground without their son's toy. Instead of helping him they make their young child address the bully who stole it from him and use “please” to ask for his own belongings back.
This book (I think) was meant to address how to deal with anger in a useful way; however it instead teaches that parents/authority aren't going to help you and that if you are upset and let them know that you'll be punished.
The book keeps talking about a robot wanting to go work for a big inventory company because he wants to be an inventor. He gets to the door of the business and... the story stops. The reader is given no information about whether or not the robot succeeds or anything- it just stops. I had to check the page count & binding to make sure I wasn't missing pages.
This book is a fascinatingly simple read that is a beautiful time capsule into the past. Reading this 1918 book in 2024 it is interesting to see the author's guidance to young women in that much of it seems like it would be extremely progressive over a hundred years ago while other sections show their age.
Ok - a same-old familiar storyline with kind illustrations.
A minor nit that some illustrations show children rowing a row boat (with two oars) while facing forward. I understand the illustrator could have chosen them to face forward to not confuse children; however, if that was a valid concern they could have just drawn a single paddle per child instead of two oars (and left the children facing forward).
At four pages long I don't expect much of baby board books; however this one made no sense.
The first three pages are fine. The last page begins with an ellipsis and just doesn't make sense considering the previous pages.
Imagine feeling like you have a book with a missing page - but it's a board book and definitely isn't. Wildly bad.
This is a cute read from a library but nothing anyone should buy. It is mostly nostalgic stories of people's fishing trips of the past than it is anything specific to bass fishing. It's any enjoyable memoir but lacks particular excitement.
There are sprinklings of information that can be useful and learned from this - so my low rating was more as a result of not attending to my own expectations than anything the dustcover promised me.
I had to give up.
I cringed when the woman who is a victim of trafficking wakes in the night in nightmares of PTSD screaming - and the author's comment from the main character is that he'd like to make her scream too.
It is only briefly later where there is the line about how the victim is a virgin - to which the main character thinks to himself, “breaking in virgins is hard work but someone's got to do it.”
This isn't to give you insight to a twisted kidnapper or criminal - this is the character painted as the hero and dashing prince come to save her.
I completely understand trash “rich man saves poor woman from bad situation” novel tropes. I got this book since it was listed as a trashy romance novel - those two situations about 1/3 of the way through though just made me realize i was being disgusted - rather than intrigued - by the story.
It's the birthday of a scooter. Each of a plane, train, and tractor take him for rides, but he's unhappy with each. A car takes him for a ride he enjoys.
I found the main character ungrateful and complaining - not my favorites for a children's book.