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Title: The Big Box by Toni Morrison, Slade Morrison ISBN: 0-7868-1291-5 Publisher: Jump Sun Pub. Date: 02 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.04 (24 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Provocative Idea With An Important Message For Adults
Comment: The first few pages made me uncomfortable (I'm not sure why). Then as I read on, I found myself cheering for the children and their freedom. I began to love the words and the rhyme. It certainly resonated for me..having raised one child (now 30)who epitomizes the concept of allowing children freedom of expression. She has grown into a creative, fearless woman who is living her dreams. Parents should read this book alone,then again with their children, followed by discussion about the meaning of freedom. While I do not believe children should run the show, they do need an environment in which they feel safe enough to express themselves. This would be a wonderful book for the Montessori Schools!
Rating: 5
Summary: plastic toys & dolls with names
Comment: Feeling twinges of regret at my own childhood, this story resonated with me on a deep emotional level.
There is a tendency in today's society to replace experience with material objects, and for parents to protect their children by sheltering them from the world as opposed to guiding them through life experiences. Unlike other reviewers, I do not find the children in this story to be victims of emotional or behavioral disorders, but rather, alive with all the creativity and awareness that a child new to the world finds innate. The adults, unable to reconcile the self expression of each child finds it necessary to lock the child in "a box"-- a metaphor for over-protective adults encouraging conformity as opposed to creative thinking-- and further drives the point home by medicating the child with commercialism and imitations of real experience: plastic toys, televisions, dolls that have "already been named", Spice Girl tee shirts, pictures of the sky and small boxes of actual dirt.
This book does hold a strong message for adults, but I think that children who read this book should not be underestimated. Discussion about the themes could encourage children to think more about their role in society as creative thinkers.
Such as: What does it mean that the children receive dolls that are already named? Ask the child, "Do like naming your own dolls? What do you think about getting a toy that already has a name?" Questions along these lines explore ideas about self-expression and ingenuity, and hopefully looking at these parts of the story will allow most to get past their knee-jerk reaction that the book encourages rebellion against adults and instigates fear or disobedience in children.
Rating: 5
Summary: Thinking Outside The Box?
Comment: Patty, Mickey and Liza Sue all must live in a big brown box with doors that open only one way because they "can't handle their freedom." Patty's infraction is that she went four times to the toilet and talked in class; Mickey hollered in the hallway of his apartment; and Liza Sue, who lives in the country, let the chickens keep their eggs. These three kids do good things, however. They fold their socks, hang up their clothes, do fractions and give up peanut brittle, for example. Written by Toni Morrison and her brother Slade and lushly illustrated by Giselle Potter, this little book sends the message that parents should let their children be given a chance to handle their freedom.
What a wonderful lesson for parents to learn!
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Title: Who's Got Game?: The Ant or the Grasshopper? by Toni Morrison, Pascal Lemaitre ISBN: 0743222474 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 17 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Book of Mean People by Toni Morrison, Slade Morrison ISBN: 0786805404 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 30 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: The Lion or the Mouse? by Toni Morrison, Slade Morrison, Pascal Lemaitre ISBN: 0743222482 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Poppy or the Snake? by Toni Morrison, Slade Morrison ISBN: 0743222490 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Love by TONI MORRISON ISBN: 0375409440 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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