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Summary: Yes, I am!
Review: This book is perfect for toddlers who are just starting to appreciate illustrations. It tells of a young bird searching for his mom and asking each animal he meets, "Are you my mother?"Kids can easily relate to the young bird's quest for his mom. He meets a kitten, a hen, a dog, a cow and a snort only to find out that his mom just got food for him and came back for him in their nest! The illustrations are simple, realistic and fun to look at. A story with a valuable lesson: The importance of the mother-child bonding which transcends all beings in the animal kingdom.
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Summary: Are You My Mother?
Review: What happens when the Mother Bird is away from the nest when the baby bird hatches? In this book we see what happens to one such bird that is put into this situation. He ends up leaving his comfortable nest in order to search for his mother. He goes in search of his mother and ends up asking a kitten, cow, dog, car, boat, and a plane if they are his mother. Luckily for him he is returned to his nest by a friendly Snort (dump truck) before his mother gets back. The spirit of the little bird who goes looking for his mother is wonderfully expressed through the illustrations. They are simple, but expressive, cute, and colorful. The story flows well, and this makes for a cute, fun book. Loggie-log-log-log
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Summary: A Beloved Part of Our Family
Review: My son is a big, hulking, almost-16-year-old, but to this day, when he sees construction equipment, he says, "Look, Mom! It's a Snort!" "Are You My Mother" was the book my son never tired of. All through his early toddler years, it was his bedtime favorite, his naptime favorite, a comfort when he was tearful, and his best friend. How many times did he curl up on my lap with his blankie and his thumb while I rocked him and read this book? The "plot" concerns a baby bird who hatches while the mother bird is out of the nest. Baby sets out to find his mother, and asks everything and everyone he sees, "Are You My Mother?" The "Snort" reference comes when the baby bird asks a huge piece of digging equipment, and..."The big thing just said SNORT!" This is what my son waited for throughout the book...he laughed every single time. And still does. In the end, the birdie finds his mommy. The perfect, secure ending for a small child who wants reassurance before bed, or any time. This book is a classic. My son still has it, and I know he will read it to his own children some day. I hope I am there to see it.
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Summary: Another brilliantly told and illustrated Eastman masterpiece
Review: This stands alongside Eastman's "Go Dog Go" as a classic of children's literature. Though bound in the same style as Dr. Seuss's books, Eastman's illustrations are more gentle and humorous than they are fantastic. His books entertain children with their broadness, while captivating adults with the fineness of their expression.
Eastman's dialog is simple enough for early readers to pick up words, yet complex enough to keep parents from being bored to tears on the thousandth reading. The story of a baby bird separated from its mother runs through several emotional phases (independence, discovery, loss, panic, fear, rediscovery), including the story arc's overall resolved drama, and invites children to surface and discuss their own separation anxieties.
A must-have for every early reader that will turn into a book full of memories as they age.
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Summary: A CURSE! AN UTTER CURSE!
Review: Many of you, "Parents", have exposed this book unto your families. Same thing with my mother. She exposed this story to me. But you know what I see in this book of evil? Scary images and ideas. Look at the dog for instance. Does he look like a "nice" dog to you? He didn't to me. He scarred the buttons of my shirt. Everytime I look at his eyes I fill with fear. But the idea of being seperated from your parents of the worst fear factor. AND in addition. NEVER EVER EVER BUY THE VIDEO THAT GOES WITH THIS BOOK! It has bizarre music that will stick in your childs minds while the sleep and haunt them. I had many nightmares about "Are You My Mother" and your kids shouldn't. NEVER BUY THIS BOOK!
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Summary: Not a Very Nice Message
Review: I know that my review will not please a lot of fans of this classic, but...
I have to say, this book's message is pretty out-dated, and rather insensitive to many modern families. The baby bird goes up to various animals asking, "Are you my mother?" The answer is invariably, "No. You are a bird. I am not a bird." What kind of message is that for a child? Many children today do not look like their mothers at all!
A much better story is A Mother for Choco, about a little bird who wanders around, going up to every animal that bears some sort of resemblance to it. In the end, it decides to live with Mrs. Bear who is also raising an alligator, a hippopotamus and a pig. To me that is a much more beautiful message for children: that a family doesn't have to be people who look alike. A family is just people who love each other.
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Summary: Good
Review: This story is amazing and much more complex than the hobbit. Compared to the hobbit, it is an adult novel that ties in a story of perplexion, and a psychological journey. The little goes on a quest for a deeper self-understanding. The hobbit is a rip off of this book. (Dorothy Matthews is stupid)
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Summary: My Best Teaching Tool Ever
Review: I read this to my children when they were quite small. My daughter adopted this book as HER book when she was just over one. My husband and I would often read this at family gatherings to our children and whatever nieces and nephews would join in (all ages)and we usually acquired quite a crowd as the various children were attracted to the zany voices that this book inspires.
Now my children are grown and I work as a speech and language pathologist in a public school. This usually is the first "story" book I read to the younger set. Once they are hooked on board books and lift the flap books and have acquired a small amount of ability to sit still for a book, I introduce this book. It is soooo good for vocabulary and sentence skills and so much fun to read aloud to the kids. I incorporate lots of nutty voices and motor movement to act out the plot and I never hear a word of complaint when I pick this book out for another reading.
Usually I leave out several books for the kids to chose from and invariably this one is chosen first, no matter how many times I have read it to them!
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Summary: One of my favorites as a child
Review: Great book. I begged my parents to read this one over and over again and now my little one loves it too. It's such a cute lesson - wait in one spot for your mother if you're lost - but it's also cute in how it shows the new life of the baby bird. When you read it over, and over, and over, you'll find out how easy it is to memorize 72 pages! Great book - should be in everyone's library.
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Summary: A CURSE! AN UTTER CURSE!
Review: A fave of mine as a young'un, this tender tale will tickle the funnybone and touch the heart as the adorable little birdling asks various animals and items if they are his mother (who went to get food for him!)LOVED the scene with the earthmover! Those who said it was scary and about child abandonment need to lighten up. :-) Who hasn't gotten separated from their folks when they were little (like by wandering off in stores and such)A must read for everyone's childhood.
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