A Chair for My Mother
Try hard and do your best.
It's a good story, there's just not much to it. It's not enough to hold my attention.
Read more...Try hard and do your best.
It's a good story, there's just not much to it. It's not enough to hold my attention.
Read more...Great illustrations, obtrusive message.
It's a good message, and the illustrations are really captivating, but the story is very didactic. The message is very clearly "be yourself", and it hits you over the head with that.
Read more...Chasing chickens, if you know what I mean. And I don't.
Is that a thing? Am I missing something? Is that some kind of meme that I'm out of the loop on? Chicken chasing?
Read more...Textbook deus ex machina ending.
An inane, contrived story. They suddenly decide to move to a larger apartment. The end.
Read more...Mostly innocuous but uninteresting.
A highly repetitive book, which is par for the course from Margaret Wise Brown. Every single animal in the frigging world is going to sleep.
Read more...Repetitive, overly simplistic pointless robbery book.
There's no real point. Pretty much everything is interchangeable. The characters are interchangeable. The plot points could have happened in any order.
Read more...Basically half a book about political responsibility.
Huh? I'm so confused. It's like they didn't even care enough to finish the book.
Read more...Unnecessary explicit preposition instruction.
Well, that was a complete lack of a story. This is from a time when people thought that you had to explicitly teach people these things. You don't!
Read more...Mama flips out.
Maybe they could have a more natural consequence, like not being able to find what they're looking for, or falling over things that have been left in the middle of the floor. That happens too, and that could be a realistic consequence instead of Mama making threats because she's being taking advantage of as a parent.
Read more...Catch fish. Eat fish. Repeat.
It's descriptive. The pictures are all line drawings, very simple, with not a lot of detail. There's also not a lot of detail in the story.
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