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Title: The Very Kind Rich Lady and Her One Hundred Dogs by Chinlun Lee ISBN: 0-7636-1290-1 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: June, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: dissappointed
Comment: My daughter loves dogs. She described the book as boring and demanded a second bedtime story. The entire book is in the title and reading the one hundred names twice did not seem to capture my child's interest.
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointing book
Comment: If the story would have been about The Very Kind Lady and Her One Hundred Dogs it would have been better. The focus on the fact that she was a rich lady didn't add any meaning to the story (except, perhaps, that she is able to have 100 dogs and take care of them.) As a picture book, the illustrations are interesting and the dogs have funny and silly names (all 100 are listed twice.)
As a story, however, it lacks substance. The fact that the lady is described as a very kind rich lady throughout the book and not just as a very kind lady never sounds right to me.
Rating: 5
Summary: This is One of the Best Picture Books of the Year
Comment: The title sets up the tension right away: how will Chinlun Lee ever be able to capture the personalities of 100 dogs, clearly and thoroughly enough to satisfy the perceptive picture book audience? This book brilliantly rises to the challenge. The caricatures are hilarious, especially the body language, but also the incredibly witty, charming, very real names of each dog. The parentheses (which keep count) establish the voice of the book which is intimate and endearing, as if the narrator is sharing a secret. Chinlun plays with contrast and numbers - sometimes showing a certain group of dogs, sometimes showing the whole bunch as a single, exuberant force, sometimes highlighting just one dog (as in the case of Bingo who is usually last, and Papa who is named first). This is the stuff of which classic picture books are made. Best of all, Chinlun doesn't just TELL us it's possible to love 100 dogs with care and understanding, she SHOWS us in one of the happiest books I've read in a long time. This book perfectly demonstrates boundless quality of love. All one has to do is give name to those animals (people, things) that are loved and suddenly there is room in the heart for every last one. Thank you, Chinlun!!
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Title: The Stray Dog: From a True Story by Reiko Sassa by Marc Simont ISBN: 0060289333 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 09 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: lizards, frogs, and polliwogs by Douglas Florian ISBN: 015202591X Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Larky Mavis by Brock Cole ISBN: 0374343659 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 03 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Waiting for Wings by Lois Ehlert ISBN: 0152026088 Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Everything on a Waffle (Newbery Honor Book) by Polly Horvath ISBN: 0374322368 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 04 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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