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Title: The Blue Balloon by Mick Inkpen ISBN: 0-316-39987-6 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Critical Reflection on The Blue Balloon
Comment: Stephanie Theo English 385.004 April 10, 2001 Dr. Michelle H. Martin Critical Reflection #2 DiCamillo, Kate. Because of Winn-Dixie. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 2000. Kogan, Lori R., Viney, Wayne. "Reported Strength of Human Animal Bonding and Met Animal Bonding and Method or Acquriring a Dog." Psychological Reports 82 (1998): 647-650. Brown, Brett V. " Single-father family: demographic, economic, and public transfer use characteristics." Marriage and Family Review 29 (2000): 203-221.
In Because of Winn-Dixie, when ten-year-old Opal Buloni, who lives with her father, discovers a stray dog at the local Winn-Dixie grocery store, she never suspects how the dog will change her life. Right away, Opal knows that she can tell Winn-Dixie anything. For example, she tells him that she thinks of her mother a lot, when she can say this to no one else. When Opal was three-years-old, her mother left her and her father. Opal never knew the reason why her mother left them. One day, she asks her father, who says that her mother had a lot of problems, one of which was drinking. An excellent preacher, Opal's father, he has been preaching his entire life. Opal feels that she doesn't have a father because he never tries to make conversation with her. Throughout the book, friendship and family are the two main points focused on. Opal is not abandoned but neglected when she and her father first move to Naomi, Florida. She calls her father as the "preacher" and not "daddy" or "father". She doesn't look at him as a father figure. Throughout the whole book, she keeps saying that when she asks her father a serious question vague, he climbs into his shell like a turtle. Opal asks her father to tell her ten things about her mother since she was to young when she left them and doesn't remember anything about her. One of the things that her father tells her is that her mother loved stories, so from that moment, any story she hears, she remembers so that one day when she sees her mother again, she can sit down with her and tell them to her. Opal finally realizes in the end of the story that she has lost her mother, and now she knows she will never see her again. Religion takes on a large part in this book, the main reason being that her father is a preacher and he brings God into their home. In the article "Marriage & Family Review," Brown comments on single fathers versus married fathers. The article states that, " The analysis shows that single fathers earn less that married fathers, have lower household incomes, are less educated, and are substantially more likely to be receiving public transfers" ( 214). In this story, Opal and her father live in a trailer park. It is a little run down and not suitable for a 10 year-old-girl to be running around in alone. It doesn't appear to be a healthy family environment. However, with her father's job, this is all that he can afford for them to live in since they just moved to a new church and a new state. The church in which he works in is not a real church; it is an old run down convenience store. Once Winn-Dixie moves into their home, things began to change drastically. The relationship between Opal and her father strengthens a great deal. The hope that Opal uses to overcome the absence of her mother and the hope to establish a relationship with her father comes from the animal-child relationship she gains
from Winn-Dixie. In a "Psychological Reports" journal article on animal-child relationships, test showed that participants who had chosen their own animals rather than receiving an animal from someone else scored higher on bonding with their pets than the participants whom had received their pets from another owner. Opal and the preacher realize that with a little help from Winn-Dixie, they've both tasted a bit of melancholy in their lives, and they still have a whole lot to be thankful for. This story will give hope to anyone who has had family separation or loved their dog as much as Opal and her father do. He gives Opal a reason to go on and live even when she feels that no one else is there. Even though she never gets reunited with her mother and receives the love from her that Opal has always dreamed about, she still has Winn-Dixie and her father.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Blue Balloon
Comment: I purchased this book before Kipper became popular. I am a Speech-Language Pathologist and all my clients love the book. It provides for enjoyment even after reading it several times to a child. It's great for language stimulation for verbs, adjectives, locatives, and colors. It has become my favorite book of all time.
Rating: 4
Summary: A sweet story for little kids
Comment: This is a good book to use for beginning reading to your child. It's simple to read, the pictures are cute, and the fold out surprises make the book engaging for even the youngest readers. My daughter is 6 months old, and enjoys having this book read to her... We always make an event of unfolding the pictures of the balloon as it changes shape and grows, and her eyes widen in delight!
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Title: Wibbly Pig Likes Bananas by Mick Inkpen ISBN: 0670892653 Publisher: Viking Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Everyone Hide from Wibbly Pig by Mick Inkpen ISBN: 0670874892 Publisher: Viking Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.99 |
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Title: Wibbly Pig Can Make a Tent by Mick Inkpen ISBN: 0670892645 Publisher: Viking Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Where Do Balloons Go? An Uplifting Mystery by Jamie Lee Curtis ISBN: 006027980X Publisher: Joanna Cotler Pub. Date: 29 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Wibbly Pig Is Happy by Mick Inkpen ISBN: 0670892637 Publisher: Viking Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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