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Twelve short stories about eight-year-olds.Tags
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I feel it is important to pick up books that our kids read to see what others are filling their minds with. With that said, I dove into this book to see if I can get the perspective of an eight year old.
This book is a collection of short stories by some pretty famous authors like E.B. White and Rohl Dahl. It gives stories of certain points in time of eight year olds. The print and the verbiage I believe is dead on for an eight year old to read. The stories are mildly entertaining but not really memorable.
One of the things that I disliked about the compilation was that most of the stories really had no conclusion...they didn't go anywhere. Sort of like the authors were distracted and exhibited their own special version of ADHD. In show more conversing with the wife, she quickly pointed out that this is much like the mind of an 8 year old. And I thought about this issue long and hard. And I started to ask myself the question, what is this book for? Entertainment sure, but if given an opportunity to help mold the mind of a child, would you take it? This book really didn't. In fact, I believe that this book failed on that point. It just gave a child who reads it a story for the sake of filling up pages and nothing more. The opportunity to go into Moral lessons failed on this book.
So, although somewhat entertaining, I feel this book missed it's mark. Would I recommend this book? Sure. But just like your entertaining B rated movie, if you are looking for Oscar material, it's not here. show less
This book is a collection of short stories by some pretty famous authors like E.B. White and Rohl Dahl. It gives stories of certain points in time of eight year olds. The print and the verbiage I believe is dead on for an eight year old to read. The stories are mildly entertaining but not really memorable.
One of the things that I disliked about the compilation was that most of the stories really had no conclusion...they didn't go anywhere. Sort of like the authors were distracted and exhibited their own special version of ADHD. In show more conversing with the wife, she quickly pointed out that this is much like the mind of an 8 year old. And I thought about this issue long and hard. And I started to ask myself the question, what is this book for? Entertainment sure, but if given an opportunity to help mold the mind of a child, would you take it? This book really didn't. In fact, I believe that this book failed on that point. It just gave a child who reads it a story for the sake of filling up pages and nothing more. The opportunity to go into Moral lessons failed on this book.
So, although somewhat entertaining, I feel this book missed it's mark. Would I recommend this book? Sure. But just like your entertaining B rated movie, if you are looking for Oscar material, it's not here. show less
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Beverly Cleary was born on April 12, 1916. Her family lived on a small farm in McMinnville, Oregon, before moving to Portland. Ironically, this internationally known author of children's books struggled to learn how to read when she entered school. Before long however Cleary had learned to love books, and as a child she spent a good deal of her show more time in the public library. Cleary attended Chaffey Junior College in Ontario, Ca. and went on to earned her first B.A. in 1938 from the University of California at Berkeley. Her second degree, a B.A. in library science, was bestowed by the University of Washington in Seattle in 1939. She worked for a short time as Children's Librarian in Yakima, Washington, before moving to California. Cleary began her writing career in her early thirties. Her first book, Henry Huggins, was published in 1950. Her stories and especially her characters, Henry Huggins and Ramona Quimby, have proven popular with young readers. Her books have been translated into twenty languages and are available in over twenty countries. Some of her best-known titles are Ellen Tebbits (1951), Henry and the Paper Route (1957), Runaway Ralph (1970), and Dear Mr. Henshaw (1983). Several television programs have been produced from the Henry Huggins and Ramona stories. She also wrote two memoirs, A Girl from Yamhill (1988) and My Own Two Feet (1995). Cleary has won many awards for her contributions to children's literature, including the American Library Association's Laura Ingalls Wilder Award in 1975, the Catholic Library Association's Regina Medal in 1980, the John Newbery Medal in 1984 and the National Medal of Arts in 2003. Beverly Cleary died on March 25, 2021 in Carmel, California. She was 104 year old. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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