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Summary: A must have book for those who love and admire Father Tim.
Review: "The Mitford Snowmen" is a happy Christmas story that takes is for a very short visit to Mitford at our favorite time of the year. In the spirit of "Jeremy:The Honest Bunny" Jan Karon allow us to see the our favorite friends and they touch our hearts for a few minutes. It's a terrific addition to my Christmas memories along with the Hallmark tree ornaments of the snowmen. Happy Holidays to All! Thanks, Jan!
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Summary: A must have book for those who love and admire Father Tim.
Review: "The Mitford Snowmen" is a happy Christmas story that takes is for a very short visit to Mitford at our favorite time of the year. In the spirit of "Jeremy:The Honest Bunny" Jan Karon allow us to see the our favorite friends and they touch our hearts for a few minutes. It's a terrific addition to my Christmas memories along with the Hallmark tree ornaments of the snowmen. Happy Holidays to All! Thanks, Jan!
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Summary: Disgraceful
Review: 23 pages. Two-thirds of the pages a dozen lines of text. A handfull of cartoonish illustrations. No charm. No grace. No wit.Plot Summary, Spoiler Alert!
Three snowmen get made. The mayor hands out donuts. The End. When Karon and her publisher/co-conspirators gather together in some dingy back room in the bowels of Manhattan to chortle over their ill-gotten gains, they might find some entertainment in the knowledge that I feel like a complete idiot for buying this "book". As good as the five novels are, I don't know if I will ever be able to reread them with any pleasure with the stench of this product in my memory.
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Summary: 35 Cents A Page?
Review: A story better be awfully good, to be 35 cents a page! I don't believe this book accomplishes that. To be sure, it is a warm and touching story of non-competition for the fun and community and comradeship of it. This is to be applauded and passed on. But one wanders, especially this reviewer, if for this most precious time of the year, one's thoughts (even Mitford's and especially Fr. Tim's) should be focused more on nativity scenes and not winter wonderland scenes. There certainly is nothing offensive in this work. But 23 pages for the price? One thinks the marketing with Hallmark is over-dominant here. Having thoroughly enjoyed Karon's previous works in this series, this was a letdown. She can do better.
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Summary: I think it's worth the money.
Review: A very sweet book. I found it a true value: a delight for Mitford series readers plus a chance to introduce the characters to the youngsters. My 10 year old dyslexic son now wants the Mitford series read aloud to him. Look at her children's books: Miss Fannie's Hat and Jeremy.
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Summary: I think it's worth the money.
Review: A very sweet book. I found it a true value: a delight for Mitford series readers plus a chance to introduce the characters to the youngsters. My 10 year old dyslexic son now wants the Mitford series read aloud to him. Look at her children's books: Miss Fannie's Hat and Jeremy.
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Summary: Where's the Beef?
Review: Actually, what's the point? Where's the inspiration, or the punch line? Why bother? The best part of this book was the anticipation. I rated this as one star only because a 0-star rating was not available. I have not been able to decide whether:
1) This is intended as a (very expensive) Christmas card that you buy for yourself, or
2) Is a rejected fragment of a chapter from books 1, 2, 3, or 4, or
3) Was written for "Highlights for Children" but erroneously printed as a book for adults, or
4) Is a crass money-making ploy by the publisher, or
5) Was actually written by Miss Rose, who put Jan Karon's name on the cover. Don't get me wrong, I have read, listened to, and loved all of the Mitford series (though was somewhat disappointed by the "...Wedding Story"). This one hardly merits mention, compared to the others, and belongs on the cardrack at Hallmark with the Snoopy books.
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Summary: The illustrations are worth the price of this book!
Review: Although Donald Hough has done this story in the book, The Cocktail Hour in Jackson Hole (to a degree anyway!), I have to say that visiting Mitford for 10 minutes at Christmas time was worth it!! Imagining my old friends building snowmen and snowwomen and adding pieces and parts of themselves, took me back to my own childhood.....<sigh> The illustrations are fantastic!!! In a day and age when retro is "in" it was comforting to see the twinkling, old-fashioned illustrations. This book makes me smile....
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Summary: Just a tiny taste of Karon
Review: Although the cover illistration on this hardbound edition is quite cute, the size of the book (5 inches by 6) and the amount of story line (about 14 out of 23 small pages) sadly leaves much to be desired. Also, the illustrations throughout (although also rather cute) take up too much space and can be rather distracting for a novel reader. I have read 5 of Jan Karon's Mitford Series books and this one is not part of that series by any stretch of the imagination. It's too tiny and probably was only meant to be read to a tiny tot.
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Summary: Just a tiny taste of Karon
Review: Although the cover illustration on this hardbound edition is quite cute, the size of the book (5 inches by 6) and the amount of story line (about 14 out of 23 small pages) sadly leave much to be desired. Also, the illustrations throughout (although also rather cute) take up too much space and can be rather distracting for a novel reader. I have read 5 of Jan Karon's Mitford Series books and this one is not part of that series by any stretch of the imagination. It's too tiny and probably was only meant to be read to a tiny tot.
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