Type of bind: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Callaway
Manufacturer: Callaway
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 40
Printing Date: November 04, 2004
Publishing house: Callaway
Sale Popularity Level: 1107673
Studio: Callaway
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This is the fifth book in the highly successful illustrated series by Madonna
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I HAVE BOUGHT ALOT OF MADONNA'S BOOK FOR MY NIECES AND THEY LOVE IT FOR THEIR COLLECTIONS. THEY KNOW WHO SHE IS AND THEY ACCEPT HER MY NIECES ARE 10 AND 7
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Modonna did it again. I am collecting her Children's books and have enjoyed this one as much as the others. ENJOY
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These books are great for all children (and grown-up ones too!)...
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The book is good for a one time read, but it had weak pictures.
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I have looked at and read 3 out of 5 of her books in a local bookstore. I have to agree with another review I read that summed up the teaching of English Roses as "Don't hate me because I am beatiful." and as for Abdi I would have to say you could sum up the teaching by saying, "Because I said so! That is why." It never dealved into the teaching of "certainty" or why "what we are given is for the best". I never found that connection made in the writing that would gently unfold an understanding of what she is trying to share. It mostly just leaves one with no connection but that it just somehow all works out. In all children's stories there is an element of parenting from the writer/teacher/storyteller that illuminates the magic of what it is they are teaching. I feel like I am be told a story by a slighly angry nun that wants me to just not ask questions and just accept what she says! Now! It leaves me feeling like an orphan in a catholic orphanage. Madonna herself did not have the parenting she needed growing up, she shared that in her Truth or Dare film.
Abdi does not even feel like a child. There is nothing about him in his experience of childhood other than... she added in much mention about how Abdi needed to find a restroom... Well that is one more thing children can relate to.. "I gotta go!" & "Because I said so!" hmmmm.. would you not like your children to have a deeper meaning not to mention understanding than that? I am disapointed in her publishers for not challenging her to develope what could be an adventure but only left me thinking, "huh? wait a minute let me reread this! You mean there is no teaching in here other than, if your famous you can write anything even if you don't really understand it."
I also noticed that the artwork is some of the most colorful and grabbing work, I guess that is one way to compensate for poor story developement, is she that scary no one could bother to ask more of her at the publishing house. Maybe they just figured what the heck! We'll make money off of anything she does she is famous! I want to buy a second hand copy, block out all of the text and write a story I would enjoy so that all of the imaginative artwork does not go to waste. Now that would be fun.
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