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Summary: Mom/Teacher says "kids love it!"
Review: All my young friends have enjoyed this book tremendously! Kids love to read about naughty kids getting their comeuppance.Rare Beasts is a wonderful springboard for discussion--besides the usual vocabulary and comprehension work, there is a moral to this story. As a mom and a teacher, I am thrilled to find a book that children are eager to read. We all look forward to the next in the series.
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Summary: the future looks bright and twinkly
Review: I couldn't put it down. It is very light weight, wonderfully illustrated and full of great fun. My 10 yr old buddy Ardon loved it too (he is planning on being pet for Halloween with an illuminated plastic egg for an eyeball).
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Summary: A Wonderful Read for Kids and Adults
Review: I loved this book! I thought the story was funny and smart and the illustrations were gorgeous! I've purchased several copies as gifts for adults and kids and have received rave reviews in return! It gives me hope that independent work like this is finding a home in the marketplace! It's not Disney and isn't that a good thing? I think so! Read it!
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Summary: A Wonderful Read for Kids and Adults
Review: I loved this book! I thought the story was funny and smart and the illustrations were gorgeous! I've purchased several copies as gifts for adults and kids and have received rave reviews in return! It gives me hope that independent work like this is finding a home in the marketplace! It's not Disney and isn't that a good thing? I think so! Read it!
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Summary: Great story!
Review: I really enjoyed the first Edgar and Ellen book. It follows a pair of twins whose parents are off on an extended vacation and leave the twins to their mischief and an empty 13-story mansion! The twins dress up the towns' pets and peddle them as "rare beasts" for exorbitantly high prices (thus the title.) It's great watching the twins think up their plans and put them into action.
Some people argue that these diabolical twins set a bad example, but they are intelligent and creative, and don't spend all day sitting in front of the TV! Kids that I babysit for loved hearing about their ridiculous schemes...and, for nervous parents, Edgar and Ellen didn't escape without punishment for stealing everyone's pets. This is a great story that teaches kids without being condescending or preachy. I'm ready to move on to the next books in the series!
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Summary: A breath of fresh air
Review: Rare Beasts brings a new energy to the children's section of bookstores everywhere. In a refreshing departure from the norm,the protagonists - Edgar and Ellen - are two mean kids who DON'T reform at the book's end. They don't see the error of their ways; they don't end their adventure subdued, regretful, and itching to assimilate with the rest of their community. These two little outsiders remain smart, contrary, and full of wicked plots. I can't wait to see what happens in the next book.Rick Carton's illustrations capture the witty spirit of Rare Beasts perfectly. This book gives young readers credit for being more grown-up than perhaps some adults might think, and kept me (at age 23) turning the pages as quickly as I could.
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Summary: Rare Beasts is a very good book!!!
Review: Rare beasts is a funny and good book for ages 8 and above. It starts out with Edgar and Ellen, two pale, bug-eyed, black haired twins in striped pajamas. They live in a gloomy 9 story mansion (also along with two attics, a basement, and subbasement), along with Pet, a creature of pure hair an eyeball, and their caretaker Heimertz, who never talks and always has a huge creepy grin on his face.
Through the long boring summer Edgar and Ellen play hide and seek in their ratty mansion. Eventually they get bored. They also LOVE pranks. But their is a problem: they don't have enough money to play big pranks on the poor residents of Nod's Limbs. Edgar and Ellen are inspired by a nature programme about the value of exotic creatures.
Edgar and Ellen steal puppies, kittens, bunnies, hamsters, and a python named Mr. Poo Poo. They then decorate the pets with paint, glitter, and ornaments to disguise the animals as exotic pets! They roam through town trying to sell the poor creatures to a number of people. In the end the pets are retured to their owners. Edgar and Ellen didn't make any money and on top of it they are soaked in mud.
At the very last chapter we all find out somthing very ironic. This is that the rarest of all creatures in the world is Edgar and Ellen's Pet, that was under their noses the WHOLE time!
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Rare Beasts is a wonderful book. It's just too bad that reviewer down there who gave it one star didn't actually read it. People who don't like this book are curmudgeons who clearly have no faith in the intelligence of children--kids know the difference between fantasy and reality, unlike my fellow reviewer.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Rare Beasts is a wonderful book. It's just too bad that reviewer down there who gave it one star didn't actually read it. People who don't like this book are curmudgeons who clearly have no faith in the intelligence of children--kids know the difference between fantasy and reality, unlike my fellow reviewer.
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Summary: Great story!
Review: Stocking-footed mischievous twins cutting up in a town of goody two shoes--if the great Poe himself were alive and sober and had kids today, this is the book he'd be telling bedtime stories from. Charles Ogden and Rick Carton: you guys should make movies too!
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