Little Golden Book Funny Animals a Bonnie Book First Edition
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Good for a beginning reader, if only I could encourage looking at the words rather than just guessing from the pictures!
A strange cross between what I'd normally expect from Margaret Wise Brown and Dr. Seuss. The text varied from page to page, sometimes all illustrated and sometimes leaving a small person asking "What type of {X} is that?"Good for a beginning reader, if only I could encourage looking at the words rather than just guessing from the pictures!
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It is a nicely illustrated and simple book, does it need to be more realistic for the world we really live in?
Well maybe.
But maybe it is also good to see the beauty in things that you may not always see.
Anyway that is for other people to discuss, it is also a good little picture book.
The farther I get outside the Goodnight Moon circle of Margaret Wise Brown books, the more I understand that saying about lightning never striking twice. The Friendly Book is the weakest book the Brown corpus we've encountered so far. It seems to be an attempt at poetry. To Brown's credit, the structure of most of the pieces of the book is the same, though that structure is very flawed; the first half of each poem (each of which is title
Margaret Wise Brown, The Friendly Book (Golden Press, 1954)The farther I get outside the Goodnight Moon circle of Margaret Wise Brown books, the more I understand that saying about lightning never striking twice. The Friendly Book is the weakest book the Brown corpus we've encountered so far. It seems to be an attempt at poetry. To Brown's credit, the structure of most of the pieces of the book is the same, though that structure is very flawed; the first half of each poem (each of which is title "I Like _____", with a different fitb for each) is a simple list of things, while the second is a quatrain that actually approaches verse. Had the whole book resembled those second halves, this might at least be half-decent. On the other hand, it isn't, and it isn't, respectively. **
...more I love this book so much, that I wrote sort of a silly "homage" to Margaret Wise Brown in the style of "The Friendly Book!" For
I have loved this book for over 50 years, and could recite most of it by heart! And, it's so fun to stop at each page and "watch" all of the activity going on in each illustration! Love Garth Williams! Over the years, I must have lost my copy....or maybe it fell apart from so much love....but purchased a new copy recently. When I read it, it's like visiting old friends!I love this book so much, that I wrote sort of a silly "homage" to Margaret Wise Brown in the style of "The Friendly Book!" For about 50 years I have had a "thing" for anything shoe related, so my story is called "I Like Shoes!" If you're interested, let me know and I'll post it! (I am an elementary school librarian!)
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The illustrations remind of Where's Waldo -- the light lines and detail, but there is a charming fantastical, old-fashioned world. I'm still not really a fan, though.
I like Brown's most popular work, but I'm just not a big fan of a lot of her other stuff. I can see how this book would appeal to children, but I find a lot of her language actually strangely awkward in an attempt to be poetic.The illustrations remind of Where's Waldo -- the light lines and detail, but there is a charming fantastical, old-fashioned world. I'm still not really a fan, though.
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Margaret loved animals. Most of her books have animals as characters in the story. She liked to write books that had a rhythm to them. Sometimes she would put a hard word into the story or p
Margaret Wise Brown wrote hundreds of books and stories during her life, but she is best known for Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. Even though she died nearly 70 years ago, her books still sell very well.Margaret loved animals. Most of her books have animals as characters in the story. She liked to write books that had a rhythm to them. Sometimes she would put a hard word into the story or poem. She thought this made children think harder when they are reading.
She wrote all the time. There are many scraps of paper where she quickly wrote down a story idea or a poem. She said she dreamed stories and then had to write them down in the morning before she forgot them.
She tried to write the way children wanted to hear a story, which often isn't the same way an adult would tell a story. She also taught illustrators to draw the way a child saw things. One time she gave two puppies to someone who was going to draw a book with that kind of dog. The illustrator painted many pictures one day and then fell asleep. When he woke up, the papers he painted on were bare. The puppies had licked all the paint off the paper.
Margaret died after surgery for a bursting appendix while in France. She had many friends who still miss her. They say she was a creative genius who made a room come to life with her excitement. Margaret saw herself as something else - a writer of songs and nonsense.
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Big dogs
Little dogs
Fat dogs
Doggy dogs
Old dogs
Puppy dogs
I like dogs
A dog that is barking over the hill
A dog that is dreaming very still
A dog that is running wherever he will
I like dogs."
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