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Summary: A Poets Pleasure
Review: As the mother of a very imaginative young poet who also likes Emily Dickinson, we found this book to be delightful. Having read so very many rhyming book that were beginning to become blaze this was a refreshing change. She still sings the rhymes and so does her older sister. We would recommend this book to anyone with an imagination.
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Summary: A Poets Pleasure
Review: As the mother of a very imaginative young poet who also likes Emily Dickinson, we found this book to be delightful. Having read so very many rhyming book that were beginning to become blaze this was a refreshing change. She still sings the rhymes and so does her older sister. We would recommend this book to anyone with an imagination.
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Summary: Wickedly Witty
Review: It is always a relief for me to read a childrens book that credits children with the experience and imagination to delight in references to things slimey, disgusting or horror-ful without wanting to get the Bounty and the Raid and make it nice. There are no more eager participants in the imaginative exploration of the gross and horrifying than those of the younger members of our species. Unimpaired by experience, not yet socially sanitized, but trusting the covers of a book, children eagerly go with Sierra to that edge between fantasy and reality for the thrill of the near but safely missed slip into true horrors. So if Barny and Mister Rogers kind of make you want to throw up, get down with the kids like Ms. Sierra does and wollow in the splendidly delightful illustrations of Mr. Davis.
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Summary: AVOID
Review: My 7 year-old daughter brought this book home from the school library. I stopped reading it about half way through because of some inappropriate material.Why would you write a book for grade school children that contains poems about 'drinking gasoline' and 'brushing your teeth with turpentine'? This book is not intended for 12 year olds, who MIGHT be able to determine that the author is only joking. Instead, it is written for the 1st grade crowd. There are much better things for our kids to be reading. Avoid this book.
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Summary: AVOID
Review: My 7 year-old daughter brought this book home from the school library. I stopped reading it about half way through because of some inappropriate material. Why would you write a book for grade school children that contains poems about 'drinking gasoline' and 'brushing your teeth with turpentine'? This book is not intended for 12 year olds, who MIGHT be able to determine that the author is only joking. Instead, it is written for the 1st grade crowd. There are much better things for our kids to be reading. Avoid this book.
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Summary: A Fun Twist to Halloween
Review: My six year old daughter loves Halloween and has a strong imagination, I knew she would enjoy this book the first time I read it in the bookstore, it's funny and witty. The illustrations are great and the poems are kooky and fun.
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Summary: Doesn't Work
Review: There she is, Monster Goose, looking at first glance, quite benign. But take a closer look and she's got a rather evil glint in her eye, sitting with her laptop, tapping away and nursery rhymes, as we know them, will never be the same. She's filled her poems with monsters, zombies, rodents and ghouls, creepy crawlies, maggots, slime and other assorted disgusting creatures and goo. Mary no longer has a little lamb, but a vampire bat and the old lady in the shoe has turned into a zombie..."She had so many maggots, she didn't know what to do." Come meet Cannibal Horner, who bites off his own thumb, Weird Mother Hubbard and Werewolf Bo-Peep. And if you're looking for a lullaby, try Hush Little Monster, (don't you whine), Sing A Song of Sea Slime or Twinkle, Twinkle Little Slug..... Judi Sierra has give old Mother Goose a nice Halloween twist, with this marvelously clever, irreverent book of verse. Her entertaining and engaging rhymes are depicted in Jack Davis' bold, bright and expressive illustrations and his busy artwork and attention to detail will have both youngsters and adults giggling and laughing out loud. This is a unique and truly ingenious collection that can be shared and enjoyed by everyone in the family. So don't wait for Halloween, Monster Goose is a wonderful read any and every day of the year.
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Summary: The Book Scared My Children
Review: We ordered the book through school. My 1st grade son can home and anounced that he received his book order and he had one book that would give him bad dreams. I looked through the book and found it was not quite what we had in mind. We were looking for something that would use the same old nursery stories, but with a difference. We wanted somthing to spark creativity and imagination, a look at adapting stories. It wasn't that kind of book. I felt it was scary and inappropriate for a young child.
My son didn't want to keep it so we tried to donate it to the school library. The librarian looked at it and said he didn't like to censure books, but this book was just not something they really would like.
We threw the book in the garbage.
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