Yes Dear
by Diana Wynne Jones
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Kay catches a magic golden leaf that creates all kinds of wondrous things, but everyone is too busy to listen to her tell about it.Tags
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Nice, colorful illustrations.
Kay finds a magic leaf, but everyone in her family---mother, father, brothers and sisters---is too busy with their own work or play to listen to her, as they "kindly" tell her.
The story has a lot of repetition---a good thing. Finally, SPOILER, Kay shows her grandmother the leaf and not only does she listen, but she knows that it is magic because, when she was young, she had found a magic leaf and no one listened to her either.
While this is a story that makes a grandmother feel superior, it doesn't promote good relationships between grandmothers and their children's families.
Kay finds a magic leaf, but everyone in her family---mother, father, brothers and sisters---is too busy with their own work or play to listen to her, as they "kindly" tell her.
The story has a lot of repetition---a good thing. Finally, SPOILER, Kay shows her grandmother the leaf and not only does she listen, but she knows that it is magic because, when she was young, she had found a magic leaf and no one listened to her either.
While this is a story that makes a grandmother feel superior, it doesn't promote good relationships between grandmothers and their children's families.
A beautifully illustrated picture book with plenty of detail to fascinate the younger child while you read the text.
Kay has caught an autumn leaf and is having a marvellous, magical time as the golden leaf grants her wishes but everyone is too busy to listen to her - everyone except one.
http://www.leemac.freeserve.co.uk/kiddies.htm#yes
Kay has caught an autumn leaf and is having a marvellous, magical time as the golden leaf grants her wishes but everyone is too busy to listen to her - everyone except one.
http://www.leemac.freeserve.co.uk/kiddies.htm#yes
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Diana Wynne Jones was born in London on August 16, 1934. In 1953, she began school at St. Anne's College Oxford and attended lectures by J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. After graduation, she created plays for children that were performed at the London Arts Theatre. Her first book was published in 1973. She wrote over 40 books during her lifetime show more including Dark Lord of Derkholm, Earwig and the Witch, and the Chrestomanci series. She won numerous awards including the Guardian Award for Children's Books in 1977 for Charmed Life, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in 1984 for Archer's Goon, the Mythopeic Award in 1999, the Karl Edward Wagner Award in 1999, and the Life Achievement Award from the World Fantasy Organization in 2007. Her book Howl's Moving Castle was adapted into an animated film by director Hayao Miyazaki, and the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. She died from lung cancer on March 26, 2011 at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1992
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- Kay
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