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Summary: Calm, tranquil, transformative
Review: Barbara Helen Berger's "A Lot Of Otters" is lovely. We begin seeing, on an open ocean, a little boy in soft red pajamas, floating about in a box! He's has something, which he drops, and soon otters begin to swim around and gather up what he's dropped and what the Moon herself is dropping as well (I can't give away more detail or it will take away some of the fun of the book for you).The illustrations are soft, sumptuous, and absolutely glowing--Berger has somehow managed to make each page look almost as though it's lit from behind. The toddler is rendered realistically, and the otters are shown sleek and lithe as they would be in real life--but everything has a moonglow cast to it, and that makes this book's pictures utterly and completely enchanting. A wonderful bedtime story, especially on a moonlit night!
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Summary: Calm, tranquil, transformative
Review: Barbara Helen Berger's "A Lot Of Otters" is lovely. We begin seeing, on an open ocean, a little boy in soft red pajamas, floating about in a box! He's has something, which he drops, and soon otters begin to swim around and gather up what he's dropped and what the Moon herself is dropping as well (I can't give away more detail or it will take away some of the fun of the book for you). The illustrations are soft, sumptuous, and absolutely glowing--Berger has somehow managed to make each page look almost as though it's lit from behind. The toddler is rendered realistically, and the otters are shown sleek and lithe as they would be in real life--but everything has a moonglow cast to it, and that makes this book's pictures utterly and completely enchanting. A wonderful bedtime story, especially on a moonlit night!
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Summary: precious but repetative
Review: I would give this book five stars for the story, which is an adorable story about a little baby, who's mother is the moon, that gets lost and finds himself floating on the ocean surrounded by otters. It is a very gentle story, and the illustrations are filled with light and magic. The only critisism that I have is that page by page the illustrations are very similar. My two year old daughter doesn't always have the patience to get to the end of the book, although she is mesmerized by the first few pages. The overall review is good though. The story ends with the mother moon finding her child and the image of thier embrace is so cozy and warm. I would give a rating of four and a half and I would be surprised if you and your child didn't love this book.
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Summary: visually beautiful, poetically haunting...
Review: If you like visually beautiful stories, then you'd be hard-pressed to top the work of Barbara Helen Berger. The otters come to life on the pages of this book...frolicking, reading, rolling, and tasting stars. Besides its stunning visuals, "A Lot of Otters" is also filled with haunting, almost singing prose; one example: "A lot of otters saw the stars fall. They dove down into the dark, down into the deep." Mrs. Berger is one of the best at what she does--she is a true myth-making aritist. It is hard to walk away from one of her stories without being somehow enriched. I recommend "A Lot of Otters" most highly.
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Summary: A dreamy bedtime story
Review: It's bedtime & Mother Moon calls for her child. Below, a little boy in his pjs with a book under his arms, finds a box to snuggle into & dream of floating on the sea with a lot of otters. A much-loved book in our rural library, with pictures every mother & child can relate to, this tender & lyrical read takes you out into the otters' world of water & charm & comedy. A lovely, whimsical book, a soothing, joyous bedtime story.
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Summary: A dreamy bedtime story
Review: It's bedtime & Mother Moon calls for her child. Below, a little boy in his pjs with a book under his arms, finds a box to snuggle into & dream of floating on the sea with a lot of otters. A much-loved book in our rural library, with pictures every mother & child can relate to, this tender & lyrical read takes you out into the otters' world of water & charm & comedy. A lovely, whimsical book, a soothing, joyous bedtime story.
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Summary: A boy , his book & a pod of sea otters in a sea of stars
Review: This beautifully illustrated book starts out from the moment you open the book when on the first page you see a little boy ( toddler age) dressed for bed in his soft red pajamas. He's carrying his red star book as he goes to find that perfect spot to look at his book. The next page is the title page and on the page next to it is the little boy has found the spot he was looking for ... a big brown box near the on the seashore. Unknown to the young child is that his Ma-ma Mother Moon is looking for him. While searching for a more comfortable position to look at his book, the young boy accidentally drops his book into the ocean and right in front of a sea otter who was just happening to be passing by.
I don't want to tell you the whole story, except that it is absolutely beautiful and equally illustrated! To me the pages are different enough and the otters looks so soft and friendly I want to reach out to touch & scratch their bellys!
If your child is a girl, I think you could easily say it's a girl with very short hair. What I also love is that the Moon Mother and her son are of Asian decent, which could easily be where other reviewers think the folk lore or stories come from the Chinese story of the Moon maiden & and the cold red which is a very lucky color as well! I'd give this book 10 stars if I could, and would have loved to have seen more books from Barbara Helen Berger. It's sad to say that she lost her battle with Cancer but now she is among the stars, Moon Mother and her baby Moonlet!
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