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Summary: A Children's Thriller?
Review: The Grey Lady, I would think, loves strawberries. But so does the Strawberry Snatcher(hence, the name). One possibly scary morning, The Grey Lady buys some strawberries and is soon being followed by guess who? The "Snatcher", of course. The Grey Lady soon realizes that she has a stalker after he attemps to loot her strawberries.
This begins the game of hide-and-go-seek that really makes the books fun. The Grey Lady easily wins the "game" and the Snatcher is left alone. And what do stalkers do when they are alone? They develop new things to love. In the Strawberry Snatchers case, the new obbsession is none other than blackberries.
If you think about it The "Snatcher" isn't such a BAD, bad guy(or E.T. hopeful) he's just out looking for strawberries to steal and eat, while working an that foot fungus. Notice the mushrooms growing after each step he takes on the sidewalk.
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Summary: Will her strawberrys get stolen?
Review: A story for children told without words about an elderly lady dressed in grey who buys strawberrys and is followed by a being who attempts to steal the strawberrys from her. She walks into the woods and is able to elude her the"Snatcher." Most children will enjoy following the story and supplement the story with their own words. They will also enjoy seeing how color and camouflage works. The book was a 1981 Caldecott Honor book (i.e., a runner-up to the Medal winner) for best illustrations in a book for children.
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Summary: baffled by 5 star ratings
Review: i found this to be a truly creepy children's book. i wouldn't recommend it for anyone under 5 years old. it is visually very unappealing. i'd return it for a refund but the shipping would probably cost me more than the book.
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Summary: BRILLIANT!
Review: I had been anticipating it's arrival. Yesterday the mailmail brought our order. The book is brilliant!! I hadn't realized it was without text and I was a bit dissapointed at first. But, the images speak so vibrantly and by the end of the night my daughter was asleep and I was still glued to the book. This book stimulates the imagination and allows for creative expression. We need more like it! I am buying additional copies for gifts. Thanks.
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Summary: My book-hater can't get enough of it
Review: I have an eight-year-old son who hates books and reading--except for stuff he thinks will shock me, like gory "Goosebumps" paperbacks. When I first saw this book at the library, I thought it was just plain weird. The illustrations didn't even seem to follow any kind of spacial logic. But I have a habit of trying out all books that have won honors and awards, so I brought it home. My bibliophobic son fell in love with it immediately. He laughed and laughed and wanted to "read it to me" dozens of times with sound effects and commentary added. He found things in it I had not spotted--such as, did you know that the Strawberry Snatcher leaves a mushroom trail? I bought this book for Alex's Christmas present and have noticed that it also has special appeal to my smaller "kinesthetic" and mechanical children who are compelled to get their mitts on something. A unique treasure--buy it for your little squirmy bibliophobes!
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Summary: A book not to be forgotten
Review: I loved this book so much as a child that I couldn't stop thinking of it ever since I had my own 5 months ago! The well illustrated story kept me in suspense even though there are no words. I remeber checking this book out numerous times from our school library. I can't wait to receive my new book in the mail to see if the grey lady escapes from the clutches of the evil strawberry snatcher!
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Summary: A book not to be forgotten
Review: I loved this book so much as a child that I couldn't stop thinking of it ever since I had my own 5 months ago! The well illustrated story kept me in suspense even though there are no words. I remeber checking this book out numerous times from our school library. I can't wait to receive my new book in the mail to see if the grey lady escapes from the clutches of the evil strawberry snatcher!
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Summary: BRILLIANT!
Review: I thought that this was a creepy looking book when I bought it. But since I had it, I decided to let my kiddos look at it and see if they liked it. They Did!! My three year old, who wants to read, had no problem 'reading' this story and finding out all sorts of interesting aspects to the pictures as he read the book. My son has bullied his little sister into helping him act out this little book. He has 'read' it to me many times over. He has enjoyed this book and so has my daughter. I rated it a four because, as I said, I found the pictures just a bit creepy when we first got the book. But it is well enjoyed by children, so I'd certainly buy it again. Enjoy.
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Summary: My 2-year old insists on this book every night!
Review: The illustrations in this book are wonderfully imaginative, detailed, and evocative. I enjoy the fact that there are no words which I think makes the sharing of the book with my daughter a more creative and interactive experience for the two of us. In other words, we tell the story together from night to night, and we are always discovering new elements. I delight at her discoveries from the illustrations, e.g. the green thumb on the produce man, the penguin in the shop window, the silly, satisfied grin on the strawberry snatcher as he/she swings down from a tree on a vine. There are seemingly endless possibilities for discovering and creating stories here. The characters in the book reflect people of different races/cultures in the most subtle ways which I appreciate for my daughter because, in fact, it reflects the world we live in, and makes the book less mono-dimensional. I have wondered if my daughter might find the story frightening, as the strawberry snatcher follows the grey lady from town and through the woods attempting to "snatch" her strawberries. If you pay close attention to the facial expressions on the characters faces, you get everything. The grey lady is contented at first with her bag of strawberries and rubs her tummy in anticipation of eating them. Then the suspense builds as she becomes aware she's being followed. She evades the snatcher, then is found, then evades again, then is found again. My child sees it as a game of hide and seek. The end is a happy resolution for both.
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Summary: Wordless and scary
Review: This book tells the story of an old lady's nightmare. One day, she went shopping in a crowded market somewhere in the Middle East (other shoppers included a woman in Middle Eastern clothing on a skateboard). A mysterious stranger saw her buy some strawberries, and began to follow her, in order to steal the strawberries. The stranger followed her into the woods, up a tree, and through a bramble. Fortunately, the bramble had blackberries, which distracted the stranger and allowed the old lady to get home to her family safely. The story is told entirely in pictures, and there are no words in the book. The pictures are very rich with detail, and evoke the dreamlike experiences of the old lady.
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