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I know this book is a classic, I know that the narration is soothing and that it is fun for kids to search for objects in the room, but this book didn't work with me. I just felt like the intense red and green were not at all soothing, and that the sudden apparition of the mama rabbit was unexpected. Maybe I would enjoy it more in pastel colors.
The illustrations were good, but the content of the book was creepy. I didn't like the idea of aliens snicking out in our gardens, trying our pants and then stealing a few of them. –or having to check while getting dressed if there's not one still playing inside.
I thought it would be a book like “The vegetables in underpants”, teaching kids how to feel comfortable wearing pants.
A sad and difficult story about healing and moving on from the past, enlightened by the beautiful illustrations of Brian Wildsmith.
It's a classic but what a terrible book! George gets captured by a poacher to be sold to a zoo, and then becomes “friend” to his kidnapper. He gets put to jail by firefighters and almost died in the city, before being “saved” by his kidnapper-friend and put to the zoo. Horrible.
This book reminds me of My Uncle by Jacques Tati, The Wind of Fire by William Nicholson and Grave of the Fireflies by Isao Takahata.
I love this book so much! And it portrays people of colors as main characters! It is the story of a teddy bear who longs to be chosen by a kid and finally have his forever home. From beginning to end, it is such a sweet story, well narrated and well illustrated.
Cultural appropriation of Native-American tales by a white English-American man.
In Iktomi Loses His Eyes, a Note to the Reader tells us that “there is no ‘authentic' version of these stories. The only rule in telling them is to include certain basic themes.”
In the author's note to the Bison edition of Brave Eagle's Account of the Fetterman Fight (1992), Goble says: “I wrote the book for Indian children because I wanted them to know about and to feel proud of the courage of their ancestors. I have written all my books primarily with Indian children in mind...“
Still, as I was reading this book, I absolutely loved the illustrations and the flow of the narration. The research I did later on about the writer made it all collapse.
I really love the illustrations and I feel that they carry most of the book. The story itself is not really remarkable. A baby rabbit gets lost and endangers her friend in order to find her way home, and then endangers herself to come back to rescue him. Not really the kind of story I would read to kids...
Read and reviewed 2019-11-29
Yes, the style is innovative and the writing wonderful, but in the end, it is just a long treaty on victimisation, racism and mysogy, and it soon becomes unbearable.
4 stars for the photographs, 1 star for the text.
McCurry reveals his incredible talent for portraits. Theroux is a euro-centrist writer who thinks that “one can fully understand India by traveling on its train”, meaning as a white tourist crossing three countries in a few days while never going beyond the train stations.
Visually violent and eye-opening.
“Because it is illegal to sell liquor on most southwestern reservations, resident Indians who want to drink visit the surrounding communities. These bordertowns have the liquor and are settings of varied and extensive drinking activities. The fact most Indians have neither shelter nor money for rooms makes the display of binge drinking visible to everyone.”
The drawings were extremely cute, but I really disliked the way they were talking to each other, and to blue bird
What a funny book! I enjoyed the high-quality illustrations and the use of perspective on this one. One day, duck decides to learn how to bike, and goes on a tour of the farm to ‘brag' a little bit in front of his friends. The ending is amazing ha ha. It's a great book to learn about the farm animals and the sounds they make. I highly recommend it :)